Junior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join BlaBlaCar as a Junior Backend Engineer and contribute to enhancing the post-booking experience for millions of users. You will collaborate with a skilled team to design, develop, and maintain Java microservices for the BlaBlaCar platform. This role involves participation in the entire application lifecycle, from initial design to deployment and maintenance. You will work closely with engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders, sharing your knowledge and contributing to a positive team environment. The position offers opportunities for professional growth and development within a dynamic and international company. BlaBlaCar provides a comprehensive benefits package, including remote work options, parental leave, and various other perks.

Requirements

• 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'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

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 Post-Booking 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Full remote possible in the country of the role (+ access to BlaBlaCar co-working spaces in Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyon, Nantes and Sophia Antipolis)
• 4 additional weeks parental leave 100% paid
• Financial support for home office equipment
• Relocation package and visa support
• Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
• Employee Stock Ownership plan
• 25 days holiday per year + RTT
• Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France)
• 50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable)
• Mental health support through Moka.care