Confirmed Frontend Engineer

Title: Confirmed Frontend Engineer - Discover

Location: Paris or Remote from France

Type: Permanent

Workplace: hybrid

Category: Front-end

Job Description:

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

Making a good first impression is key when you meet someone new.

At BlaBlaCar, this is the job of the Discover squad.

Whether it’s the home page or specialized landing pages, the mission of the squad is to gather all the trips available on BlaBlaCar (carpool, bus and soon trains), enrich them with useful information for the users and render these pages in the blink of an eye (think blazing fast response and web performance).

As a Confirmed Frontend Engineer, your role will be to design and deliver new features to enhance these landing pages. You will tackle challenges related to SEO and web performance optimization while building our in-house CMS, ensuring an elevated user experience. You will mainly contribute to our web app codebase (Typescript, React, Node.js, Turborepo, etc.).

You will be reporting to Remy, Engineering Manager, and working with a team of 1 Frontend Engineer, 4 Backend Engineers and one Product Manager.

Your Responsibilities

• Participate in technical discoveries to find the most relevant solutions considering our business priorities
• Launch new features while keeping a high-quality codebase
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Interact with people with different roles and backgrounds and sharing your technical expertise with a mix of technical, product and business experts
• Proactively participate in your team’s processes and product decisions

Your qualifications

• Proficiency in Typescript, HTML5, CSS3
• Hands-on experience with developer tools like Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions (Datadog)
• Full working proficiency in English
• Fit with our BlaBlaPrinciples
• Thriving in a collaborative, fast-growing and innovative environment
• Ability to take ownership, aligned with business priorities  

Nice to have: 

• Proficiency in React Native
• Experience with SEO and web performance optimization

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 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 Maxime, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• a 60-min video-call  with Remy, Engineering Manager, and Khadija, Product  Manager to discuss your experience and share more details about the team
• a 60-min Design Interview  with Software Engineers, going deeper into your technical skills in problem solving
• a 45-min Code review with Software Engineers
• a 60-min Live coding / Pair programming with Software Engineers
• a 30-min video-call with Louise, Head of Demand Engineering, for vision fit and rounding off the process

Our hiring process lasts 25-30 days on average, 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.