Confirmed Android Engineer – Booking Squad

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

We are looking for a Confirmed Android Engineer to join our Booking Squad at BlaBlaCar. You’ll build and optimise features enabling passengers to effortlessly manage their bookings purchase, enhancing the experience and fostering customer satisfaction and loyalty.

As a Confirmed Android Engineer, your role will be to work on technical challenges and product feature developments from early-stage conception, to development, testing strategy, deployment and monitoring of new releases.

You will be reporting to Clothilde, Engineering Manager of the squad, and working with a team of 4 other frontend engineers (2 iOS, 1 Android & 1 SPA) and 4 backend engineers. You will also be part of the transversal Android chapter composed of the 11 Android Engineers dedicated to BlaBlaCar’s mobile application.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, architect and develop features for the BlaBlaCar applications
• Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to help shape the features that lands in production
• Be responsible for the quality of the application, and contribute to improving it
• Improve the tooling and the CI/CD pipeline
• Share your knowledge in the team: provide documentation on your work, enforce good practices and processes, communicate on changes
• Conduct code reviews

Your qualifications

• 3+ years experience building Android apps with a strong engineering culture
• Experience with MVVM architecture and clean architecture
• Experience working on RESTful API, Dagger, Retrofit, Kotlin, Kotlin coroutines, unit and integration tests
• Ability to find the good balance between fast iterations and quality of delivery
• You have good communication skills, and you enjoy sharing & learning from others
• You embrace change, are able to take a step back, and focus on added-value tasks
• You have a results-driven and product-oriented mindset
• Fluency in English

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 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?

• a 45-min video-call with Marion, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• a 60-min video-call with Clothilde, Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and share more details about the team
• a 60-min design case with software engineers, going deeper into your technical skills in problem solving
• a 60-min Live coding / Pair programming with software engineers
• a 45-min Code review with software engineers
• a 30-min video-call with Gilles, 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.

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