About BlaBlaCar 🚗
BlaBlaCar is the world's leading community-based travel app, enabling 26 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, with 30% working fully remotely.
Your Mission 🗺️
At BlaBlaCar, enabling and guiding carpool drivers to create and manage their rides and passengers with the best experience is key. This is the job of the Publish Squad.
We are looking for a Frontend Engineer to join us on the development of the BlaBlaCar website. You will work on technical challenges and product features development from early-stage conception, to development, testing strategy, deployment, and monitoring of new releases.
Being part of the Publish squad, you will join a Multi-Stack team which today consists of:
- 6 Frontend Engineers
- 2 Backend Engineers
- 1 Product Manager
- 1 UX Designer
- 1 Engineering Manager
Our team is responsible for providing our drivers with the best-in-class experience for the management of their rides, bookings, and travels with their passengers. We are composed of experienced people who have worked on Frontend and Backend platforms for several years. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to our backend developments.
BlaBlaCar’s web application stack is a monorepo based on React and Typescript. We use REST APIs to communicate with a backend of microservices built mainly in Java.
Your Responsibilities 🛠️
- Enhance, maintain, and monitor BlaBlaCar web app, a complex technical stack with 2 million page views per day in 22 countries
- Develop and maintain our design system by creating extensible and accessible UI components
- Be responsible for the quality of the application and contribute to improving it. Participate in design and code reviews
- Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to help shape the features that land in production
- Share your knowledge with the team: provide documentation on your work, enforce good practices and processes, communicate on changes
Your Qualifications 📚
- Passionate about web development with production experience in Typescript, HTML, CSS
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written), humble, and enjoy sharing & learning from others
- Embrace change, able to take a step back, and find the good balance between fast iterations and quality of delivery
- Results-driven and impact-oriented mindset
- Fluent in English
Nice to have:
- Proven experience with a JavaScript framework or library (React, Angular, or Vue) in an API-centric ecosystem
- Prior experience in TypeScript or Back-End technologies such as Java, PHP Symfony
- Prior experience in maintaining a Design System library
- Prior experience contributing to IaC and CI/CD topics
- Prior experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions like Datadog
- General knowledge of Backend frameworks like Spring or Spring Boot
- Experience in designing API contracts
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!
What we have to offer 🎁
- 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 of 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
Interested in joining the ride? 🚗
- 45-min video call with Benjamin, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations, and answer your questions
- 60-min video call with our Cyril, Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and share more details about the team
- 45-min design case with software engineers, going deeper into your technical skills in problem-solving
- 60-min Live coding / Pair programming with software engineers
- 45-min Code review with software engineers
- 30-min video call with Victor, VP Engineering, for vision fit and rounding off the process
Our hiring process lasts on average 25-30 days, offers usually come within 48 hours.
Not sure yet? 🤔 Check out our 100 reasons to join BlaBlaCar!
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 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.