Confirmed Backend Engineer - Care

BlaBlaCar; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (2 days in office)

Healthcare coverage

4 extra weeks parental leave

Home office equipment stipend

Minimum 25 days holiday

Swile meal card

Transport subsidy

Stock ownership plan

Team building events

Product trainings & mentorship

Job summary

BlaBlaCar is seeking a Confirmed Backend Engineer to join the Care team. You will contribute to building Phoenix, the unified back-office system that aggregates data across all teams and enables actions like account blocking and content moderation.

You will work in a multi-stack team with 3 Backend & 1 Frontend Engineer, collaborating with the CRT and Product Managers to deliver robust technical solutions and maintain high code quality.

Qualifications

• Solid experience from companies with strong engineering culture in growth context.
• Strong knowledge of the Java language and ecosystem; solid software architecture foundations.
• Hands-on experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions (Datadog).
• Significant experience building, deploying, and operating Backend microservices in production.
• Value a product-oriented mindset and focus on delivering business impact when designing software.
• Comfortable making technical choices and balancing business needs with technical constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve the services of the BlaBlaCar Backoffice.
• Maintain strategic user features like claim management and reporting systems.
• Take full ownership of substantial features, from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with Product Manager and other engineers to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
• Uphold and improve the team’s code quality standards, providing feedback through code reviews.
• Document the solutions we build and ensure our APIs and services are well understood by consumer teams.

Skills

Java

Microservices

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Code reviews

Mentorship

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Job description

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.

We are looking for a Confirmed Backend Engineer to join the Care team at BlaBlaCar.

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.

Your role will be to contribute to the creation of this unified back-office and to ensure our customer relation agents can operate seamlessly.

You will work within a multi-stack team of 3 Backend & 1 Frontend Engineer. 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 Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve the services of the BlaBlaCar Backoffice

• Maintain some strategic user features like the claim management and reporting systems of the BlaBlaCar platform

• Take full ownership of substantial features, from technical design and implementation to deployment and monitoring

• Collaborate with the Product Manager and other engineers to refine requirements and translate business needs into robust technical solutions

• Uphold and improve the team’s code quality standards, providing detailed feedback and mentorship through code reviews

• Document the solutions we build and ensure our APIs and services are well understood by consumer teams

Your Qualifications

• You have solid experience from companies with a strong engineering culture, within a growth context

• You have a solid knowledge of the Java language and ecosystem, and have good foundations in software architecture

• You have hands‑on experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions (Datadog)

• You have significant experience building, deploying, and operating Backend microservices in a production environment

• You value a product-oriented mindset and are focused on delivering business impact when designing software

• You feel comfortable making technical choices and balancing business needs with technical constraints

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

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