<div><b>About BlaBlaCar</b></div><div>BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel network, connecting over 100 million members across 22 countries looking to carpool or travel by bus. By sharing rides and filling empty seats on the road, our community avoids 1.6 million tons of CO2 emissions every year (as if Paris was free of road traffic for a year!)</div><div>We are a global and diverse team of 700+ people with 45+ nationalities, and headquartered in Paris. We’re constantly looking for new ways to leverage technology to create a more affordable, convenient, flexible and sustainable way to travel. And we are always on the lookout for people who care about making a positive impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About BlaBlaCar Daily</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">We’re looking for people to join our journey on BlaBlaCar Daily.We are an independent business unit growing fast following the acquisition of </span><a href="https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=3_cc-session_62ae2636-6e23-4b98-8fff-71bfbb8cf404" style="font-size:11pt;">Klaxit</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> in March 2023. We are going to be about 100 people together building the best commute carpooling solution. We are actively developing and testing the product in France, Belgium and Switzerland with thousands of daily </span><a href="http://carpoolers.You" style="font-size:11pt;">c</a><span style="font-size:11pt;">arpoolers. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">You will join a small team of engineers operating independently of other products at BlaBlaCar and contributing actively to the software development of the product. This can include matching of driver and passengers and carpool features, as well as new features to be adapted from Klaxit into Daily following the integration of both products. The current project goal is to iterate quickly and take over the commuting carpooling market by bringing together the best of BlaBlaCar Daily and Klaxit. Our team is composed of experienced people that have worked on successful services before. The job provides a lot of opportunities to learn and grow.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size:11pt;">Your Mission</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">We are looking for a Backend software engineer to join us on the development of BlaBlaCar Daily on the Features workstream. You will work on technical challenges and product feature developments from the early conception meetings, development and test strategy, to deployment in production, on-call, observability, and support. You will mainly work on backend features with occasional contributions to our frontend projects.</span></div><br><br><h3>Your responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Participate in the whole application development lifecycle, including: early-stage product meetings, architecture design, development, tests strategy, deployment to production, monitoring, alerting and support</li><li>Support and collaborate with other engineers on the team to develop our backend projects together</li><li>Improve our matching algorithms to help drivers and passengers to better carpool together</li><li>Adapt existing feature implementations to growing scalability challenges</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul><li>At least 3 years of experience in back end development. Our internal stack is Python (Flask), if you have experience on Django or Fast API it’s a good fit too. </li><li>Familiar with databases; especially relational ones like PostgreSQL</li><li>Computer science background (database design, algorithms and data structures, networking, abstractions, security)</li><li>Ability to find the good balance between fast iterations and quality of delivery</li><li>Ability to take a research problem from conception to production-ready for our users</li><li>Fluent in English.</li><div><br></div><div><b>And it would be nice (not required) if you had:</b></div><li>Experience with OSRM or GraphHopper, and graph optimization algorithms</li><li>Experience with developer tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions </li><div>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!</div><div><br></div></ul><h3>What we have to offer</h3><ul><li>🌎 An international environment with over 45+ nationalities</li><li>⚖️ A hybrid, flexible workplace with family-friendly policies</li><li>💡 Learning opportunities via access to training, mentorship, internal development programs, or our weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks and Tech &amp; Product Demos</li><li>🤝 Team-building events like our weekly afterworks, breakfasts, our annual <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/blablacar_hackathons-engineers-designers-activity-7009436563633750016-WjrH?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop">Coding Night</a> or <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/blablacar_once-every-year-our-team-dedicates-one-working-activity-6949700914756661248-Bk-D/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop">Impact Day</a></li><li>🌱 A product and a workplace with a strong commitment to sustainability</li><li>🧭 Shared <a href="https://jobs.blablacar.com/working-at-blablacar">BlaBlaPrinciples</a> that are the foundation of our culture and everyday decisionsTo know more, check out our <a href="https://medium.com/blablacar/100-million-reasons-to-join-blablacar-708c04026f7b">100 reasons to join BlaBlaCar</a>!</li><div><br></div></ul><h3>We are dedicated to  flexibility, growth and well-being at work</h3><ul><li>Full remote possible in the country of the role</li><li>1 additional month parental leave 100% paid</li><li>Financial support for home office equipment</li><li>Relocation package and visa support</li><li>Free unlimited carpooling &amp; bus rides</li><li>Employee Stock Ownership plan</li><li>Minimum 25 days holiday per year</li><li>Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France)</li><li>50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable)</li><li><a href="http://Moka.care">Moka.care</a></li></ul><h3>Interested in joining the ride?</h3><ul><li>a 45-min video-call with one of our Talent Acquisition Managers to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions</li><li>a 60-min video-call with our <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-lage-608457a/">Ricardo Lage</a> , engineering manager of the BlaBlaCar Daily team to assess your soft skills</li><li>a 90-min video-call live exercise (live coding) with software engineers from BlaBlaCar to assess your technical skills </li><li>a 45-min video-call with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilles-laborderie-b06900/">Gilles Laborderie</a> our VP Demand to validate the cultural fit</li></ul><br><div>BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.</div>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">BlaBlaCar is the world&rsquo;s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million active members a year to share a ride in 21 countries. Its technology matches drivers with empty seats with passengers heading the same way, so they can share the cost of the trip. With the mission to be the go-to marketplace for shared travel, BlaBlaCar combines carpooling with bus journeys from over 5 000 operators to offer a wide choice of affordable and sustainable travel solutions, all in one app.</span></p>
<p><br /><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2023, BlaBlaCar&rsquo;s trusted community connected 2,4 million meeting points worldwide and enabled 104 million human encounters. Carpool drivers saved 513 million euros, and all BlaBlaCar&rsquo;s mobility services contributed to avoiding 2 million tonnes of CO</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">2</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> emissions.</span></p>

Python Backend Engineer - BlaBlaCar Daily

<div><b>About BlaBlaCar</b></div><div>BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel network, connecting over 100 million members across 22 countries looking to carpool or travel by bus. By sharing rides and filling empty seats on the road, our community avoids 1.6 million tons of CO2 emissions every year (as if Paris was free of road traffic for a year!)</div><div>We are a global and diverse team of 700+ people with 45+ nationalities, and headquartered in Paris. We’re constantly looking for new ways to leverage technology to create a more affordable, convenient, flexible and sustainable way to travel. And we are always on the lookout for people who care about making a positive impact.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About BlaBlaCar Daily</b></div><div><br></div><div><span>We’re looking for people to join our journey on BlaBlaCar Daily.We are an independent business unit growing fast following the acquisition of </span><a href="https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=3_cc-session_62ae2636-6e23-4b98-8fff-71bfbb8cf404">Klaxit</a><span> in March 2023. We are going to be about 100 people together building the best commute carpooling solution. We are actively developing and testing the product in France, Belgium and Switzerland with thousands of daily </span><a href="http://carpoolers.You">c</a><span>arpoolers. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span>You will join a small team of engineers operating independently of other products at BlaBlaCar and contributing actively to the software development of the product. This can include matching of driver and passengers and carpool features, as well as new features to be adapted from Klaxit into Daily following the integration of both products. The current project goal is to iterate quickly and take over the commuting carpooling market by bringing together the best of BlaBlaCar Daily and Klaxit. Our team is composed of experienced people that have worked on successful services before. The job provides a lot of opportunities to learn and grow.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Mission</b></div><div><br></div><div><span>We are looking for a Backend software engineer to join us on the development of BlaBlaCar Daily on the Features workstream. You will work on technical challenges and product feature developments from the early conception meetings, development and test strategy, to deployment in production, on-call, observability, and support. You will mainly work on backend features with occasional contributions to our frontend projects.</span></div><br><br><h3>Your responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Participate in the whole application development lifecycle, including: early-stage product meetings, architecture design, development, tests strategy, deployment to production, monitoring, alerting and support</li><li>Support and collaborate with other engineers on the team to develop our backend projects together</li><li>Improve our matching algorithms to help drivers and passengers to better carpool together</li><li>Adapt existing feature implementations to growing scalability challenges</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul><li>At least 3 years of experience in back end development. Our internal stack is Python (Flask), if you have experience on Django or Fast API it’s a good fit too. </li><li>Familiar with databases; especially relational ones like PostgreSQL</li><li>Computer science background (database design, algorithms and data structures, networking, abstractions, security)</li><li>Ability to find the good balance between fast iterations and quality of delivery</li><li>Ability to take a research problem from conception to production-ready for our users</li><li>Fluent in English.</li><div><br></div><div><b>And it would be nice (not required) if you had:</b></div><li>Experience with OSRM or GraphHopper, and graph optimization algorithms</li><li>Experience with developer tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions&nbsp;</li><div>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!</div><div><br></div></ul><h3>What we have to offer</h3><ul><li>🌎 An international environment with over 45+ nationalities</li><li>⚖️ A hybrid, flexible workplace with family-friendly policies</li><li>💡 Learning opportunities via access to training, mentorship, internal development programs, or our weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks and Tech &amp; Product Demos</li><li>🤝 Team-building events like our weekly afterworks, breakfasts, our annual <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/blablacar_hackathons-engineers-designers-activity-7009436563633750016-WjrH?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop">Coding Night</a> or <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/blablacar_once-every-year-our-team-dedicates-one-working-activity-6949700914756661248-Bk-D/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop">Impact Day</a></li><li>🌱 A product and a workplace with a strong commitment to sustainability</li><li>🧭 Shared <a href="https://jobs.blablacar.com/working-at-blablacar">BlaBlaPrinciples</a> that are the foundation of our culture and everyday decisionsTo know more, check out our <a href="https://medium.com/blablacar/100-million-reasons-to-join-blablacar-708c04026f7b">100 reasons to join BlaBlaCar</a>!</li><div><br></div></ul><h3>We are dedicated to  flexibility, growth and well-being at work</h3><ul><li>Full remote possible in the country of the role</li><li>1 additional month parental leave 100% paid</li><li>Financial support for home office equipment</li><li>Relocation package and visa support</li><li>Free unlimited carpooling &amp; bus rides</li><li>Employee Stock Ownership plan</li><li>Minimum 25 days holiday per year</li><li>Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France)</li><li>50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable)</li><li><a href="http://Moka.care">Moka.care</a></li></ul><h3>Interested in joining the ride?</h3><ul><li>a 45-min video-call with one of our Talent Acquisition Managers to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions</li><li>a 60-min video-call with our <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-lage-608457a/">Ricardo Lage</a> , engineering manager of the BlaBlaCar Daily team to assess your soft skills</li><li>a 90-min video-call live exercise (live coding) with software engineers from BlaBlaCar to assess your technical skills </li><li>a 45-min video-call with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilles-laborderie-b06900/">Gilles Laborderie</a> our VP Demand to validate the cultural fit</li></ul><br><div>BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.</div>

Python Backend Engineer - BlaBlaCar Daily

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