Front-End Engineer

Title: Confirmed Front-End Engineer - Door to Door

Location: Paris, France

Type: Permanent

Workplace: hybrid

Category: Front-end

Job Description:

About BlaBlaCar
 

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.

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, 30% working fully remotely.

Your mission:

We are seeking our Front-End Web Engineer to join the Door to Door team. This pivotal role will directly contribute to one of BlaBlaCar's key strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to rapidly iterate while also considering future system scalability.

You will thrive in an environment defined by high autonomy, where we encourage proactive involvement across various scopes of our product ecosystem and underlying architecture. As the sole web engineer on the team, you will have a unique platform for high-impact leadership: you will directly support, coach, and mentor another engineer as they ramp up on web technologies, shaping the future of our front-end expertise.

Beyond your team, you will contribute to various external scopes, including enhancing both passenger and driver experiences, while maintaining strong ownership of our core domain as a standalone supply. You will also be a key member of BlaBlaCar’s Front-End Web Engineering Chapter, contributing to our web platform’s foundational architecture.

This is a unique opportunity to be a core contributor to the future of carpooling. Our mission is to develop a new "door-to-door" experience within the BlaBlaCar product, offering the convenience of car ownership without the burden. We aim to expand our passenger and driver base by providing a richer and more diverse offering, potentially reaching individuals who currently don't consider carpooling. This initiative is crucial for the continued global growth of carpooling and for achieving our #zeroemptyseats mission.

Our Ambitious Goals:

By 2028, we target 1 million passengers utilizing this new feature, generating an additional €5 million in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV).

Your Responsibilities

• You will work closely with the product manager, product designer and other engineers to ensure that the product meets business needs and user requirements.

• Design, develop and maintain high-performance and scalable features within BlaBlaCar product

• Ensure that the product is developed according to best practices, coding standards, and BlaBlaCar architecture principles.

• Work closely with other teams to ensure smooth integration with existing systems and leverage what’s in place.

• 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 BlaBlaCar’s Front-End Web Engineering Chapter

• You will be supported by state-of-the-art AI tooling, which is broadly adopted across BlaBlaCar's engineering teams and culture to enhance development efficiency.

Your qualifications

• Proficiency in Typescript, HTML5, CSS3 and React

• First experience with tooling like Git, Docker, Node.js and observability solutions

• 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  

• A strong appetite for AI-assisted coding and agentic workflows.

• A "share more, learn more" mindset, fully aligned with our company culture.

Nice to have: 

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes 

• Experience with SEO and web performance optimization

• Past experience with mobile and backend development

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

• Hybrid position : 2 days at the office per week 

• 50% healthcare coverage (Alan)

• 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves

• 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

Interested in joining the ride?

• a 45-min video-call with Chloé, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions

• a 60-min video-call  with Thomas, Engineering 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 Sébastien, VP Engineering Carpool, 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.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.