Junior Backend Engineer - Care

About BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.

About BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.

Your Mission

As part of the Corporate Services pillar, your mission will be to empower our Community

Relations Team (CRT) with the tools they need to have a 360-degree view of the user journey

across our platform.The Care team's primary objective is to build "Phoenix," our new, comprehensive back-office system. This service aggregates data from all other teams and supply lines (train, carpool, and bus), while also providing critical action capabilities regarding our users, such as account blocking and content moderation.

As a Junior Backend Engineer, you’ll work collaboratively with your squad mates and your stakeholders on the design and the delivery of this product from the early-stage conception to the final roll-out. Your role will be to contribute to the creation of this unified backoffice and to ensure our customer relation agents can operate seamlessly.

You will work within a full-stack team of 3 backend & 1 frontend engineers. You will collaborate closely with the Community Relations Team (CRT) as well as with Product Managers from other teams to best define needs and ensure seamless integration across the company.

Your skills and qualifications

• You have a first experience in Java and its frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit, and Mockito.

• You know what service-oriented architecture looks like, and you can determine when to apply a given architectural pattern

• You are open to modern development tools. Some experience with AI coding assistants is a plus, and you are definitely open-minded about leveraging AI to boost your daily workflow.

• You are curious and eager to learn beyond the backend, exploring frontend projects using React and TypeScript.

• Some knowledge or prior experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Datadog is a plus

• You're comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a strong product focus, you appropriately set the needle between technical quality and time-to-market.

• You have good communication skills, you enjoy sharing & learning from others, you’re able to adapt your communication to non-technical stakeholders.

• You’re a team player, willing to positively tweak and improve our team’s ways of working, favoring team communication and agreements over theoretical or dogmatic approaches.

• You embrace change, are able to take a step back, and focus on added-value tasks.

• You’re fluent in English.

If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application!

 

Your Responsibilities

 

• Collaborate with both engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders to help shape the features that land in production.

• Participate in the technical design, development, and maintenance of the Java microservices that serve the Care flows for the BlaBlaCar platform.

• Participate in the whole application lifecycle, from early meetings and design to development, test strategy, and deployment - and of course, monitoring, alerting, and support.

• Share your knowledge in the team: provide documentation on your work, set-up and enforce good practices and processes, communicate on changes, conduct code reviews.

What we have to offer

•  Hybrid position : 2 days at the office per week 

• 50% healthcare coverage (Alan)

• 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves

• Financial support for home office equipment

• Minimum 25 days holiday per year 

• Local meal plan policy (Swile card)

• 50% transportation paid (Forfait Mobilité Durable)

• Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides

• Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs

• Employee Stock ownership plan

• Regular team building events

• 1 day off per year to test our product

Interested in joining the ride?

•  a 45-min video-call with Maxime Gaudillière, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you,

understand your career expectations and answer your questions

•  a 60-min video-call with Rémi Katchadourian, Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and share more details about the squad

• a 90-min live coding session with Software Engineers

• a 60-min design interview with Software Engineers

• a 30-min video-call with Camille, Head Of Corporate Services, for vision fit and rounding

off the process

Your Mission

As part of the Corporate Services pillar, your mission will be to empower our Community

Relations Team (CRT) with the tools they need to have a 360-degree view of the user journey

across our platform.The Care team's primary objective is to build "Phoenix," our new, comprehensive back-office system. This service aggregates data from all other teams and supply lines (train, carpool, and bus), while also providing critical action capabilities regarding our users, such as account blocking and content moderation.

As a Junior Backend Engineer, you’ll work collaboratively with your squad mates and your stakeholders on the design and the delivery of this product from the early-stage conception to the final roll-out. Your role will be to contribute to the creation of this unified backoffice and to ensure our customer relation agents can operate seamlessly.

You will work within a full-stack team of 3 backend & 1 frontend engineers. You will collaborate closely with the Community Relations Team (CRT) as well as with Product Managers from other teams to best define needs and ensure seamless integration across the company.

Your skills and qualifications

• You have a first experience in Java and its frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit, and Mockito.

• You know what service-oriented architecture looks like, and you can determine when to apply a given architectural pattern

• You are open to modern development tools. Some experience with AI coding assistants is a plus, and you are definitely open-minded about leveraging AI to boost your daily workflow.

• You are curious and eager to learn beyond the backend, exploring frontend projects using React and TypeScript.

• Some knowledge or prior experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Datadog is a plus

• You're comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a strong product focus, you appropriately set the needle between technical quality and time-to-market.

• You have good communication skills, you enjoy sharing & learning from others, you’re able to adapt your communication to non-technical stakeholders.

• You’re a team player, willing to positively tweak and improve our team’s ways of working, favoring team communication and agreements over theoretical or dogmatic approaches.

• You embrace change, are able to take a step back, and focus on added-value tasks.

• You’re fluent in English.

If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application!

 

Your Responsibilities

 

• Collaborate with both engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders to help shape the features that land in production.

• Participate in the technical design, development, and maintenance of the Java microservices that serve the Care flows for the BlaBlaCar platform.

• Participate in the whole application lifecycle, from early meetings and design to development, test strategy, and deployment - and of course, monitoring, alerting, and support.

• Share your knowledge in the team: provide documentation on your work, set-up and enforce good practices and processes, communicate on changes, conduct code reviews.

What we have to offer

•  Hybrid position : 2 days at the office per week 

• 50% healthcare coverage (Alan)

• 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves

• Financial support for home office equipment

• Minimum 25 days holiday per year 

• Local meal plan policy (Swile card)

• 50% transportation paid (Forfait Mobilité Durable)

• Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides

• Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs

• Employee Stock ownership plan

• Regular team building events

• 1 day off per year to test our product

Interested in joining the ride?

•  a 45-min video-call with Maxime Gaudillière, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you,

understand your career expectations and answer your questions

•  a 60-min video-call with Rémi Katchadourian, Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and share more details about the squad

• a 90-min live coding session with Software Engineers

• a 60-min design interview with Software Engineers

• a 30-min video-call with Camille, Head Of Corporate Services, for vision fit and rounding

off the process

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.