Senior Backend Engineer Payment Squad
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About BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar is the worlds 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 Senior Backend Engineer to join the Payment Squad. They manage BlaBlaCars payment solutions that provide reliability trust and a smooth end-to-end experience.
As a Senior Backend Engineer your role will be to drive the delivery of a reliable and scalable platform that supports the full payment lifecycle fraud fight and compliance requirements. You will take ownership of complex cross-functional projectssuch as finalizing the implementation of our payment orchestratorand play a key role in expanding BlaBlaCars business by proposing and integrating tailored payment methods for our various operational countries.
You will act as a technical reference demonstrating strong autonomy deep architectural thinking and the ability to synchronize with multiple external teams (Legal Cash Management & Finance Payment Ops).
You will be reporting to the squads Engineering Manager and working closely with a team of Software Engineers and a Product Manager.
- Drive and deliver transverse and complex technical projects from design to deployment demonstrating a deep understanding of technical constraints and implementation challenges.
- Lead the finalization and scaling of the payment orchestrator and integrate new adapted payment methods across different countries.
- Take a step back to proactively propose platform improvements task automation and better observability (e.g. establishing SLO reviews with SREs and owning your monitoring and alerting stack).
- Interact closely with various teams (Legal Finance Fraud/Payment Ops) to synchronize efforts gather requirements and assess cross-team impacts.
- Act as a mentor and guide for mid-level (IC3) developers within the squad elevating the teams overall engineering standards.
- Participate in a cyclic on-call duty (approximately 1 week every 7 weeks) to ensure the high availability of our critical payment systems.
- You have 5 to 10 years of overall engineering experience.
- You possess deep technical autonomy and a high level of critical thinking regarding software architecture and constraints.
- You are fluent in Java and have advanced knowledge of frameworks such as Spring or SpringBoot.
- You have hands-on experience with service-oriented architectures Git Docker Kubernetes and monitoring solutions (Datadog).
- You have excellent clear and concise communication skills allowing you to easily step into any workshop and share technical expertise with both technical and business stakeholders.
- You are not reluctant to participate in on-call duties (mandatory for this role).
- Full working proficiency in English
- Fit with ourBlaBlaPrinciples
- Hybrid position
- 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves
- 50% healthcare coverage (Alan)
- 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
a 90-min live coding session with Software Engineers
a 60-min design interview with Software Engineers
a 60-min video-call with Julien Engineering Manager of the payment team to discuss your experience and share more details about the squad.
Our hiring process lasts on average 25-30 days offers usually come within 48 hours.
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
BlaBlaCar is the world's leading community-based travel network. Bus or carpool, find the perfect ride from a wide range of destinations and routes at low prices.
