Company Description
BlaBlaCar
is the global leader in long-distance carpooling. We’re an innovative
and fast-growing company building a unique community of 60+ million
members to transform the way people travel across the world!
Job Description
Why join us?
One
of BlaBlaCar’s core ambitions is to build the largest people-powered
travel network in the world. To achieve that goal, we set ourselves high
and ambitious targets, bringing tech and data to the heart of a renewed
product experience and company strategy.
Two of the key company priorities for the next 12 months are:
the
ongoing migration from a monolith architecture hosted on-prem to a
service-oriented architecture living fully in the Google Cloud Platform,
from a PHP / Symfony stack towards a Java / JS dominated one.
exciting
product evolutions, based on smart geo-matching and practical
algorithms that give a personalized experience to each individual user.
We’re
looking for a seasoned manager to lead the four teams (around 30
engineers) responsible for a wide range of backend topics, from
monetization and payment projects to geo-matching, search and API
components.
What you will directly contribute to:
As
Head of Platform Engineering, you will be accountable for the delivery
of your teams, ensuring they work in the most impactful and efficient
way towards the company objectives. You’ll be responsible for finding
the right balance between short-term deliverables and mid- and long-term
technical and business strategy.
Key qualities include:
Ability
to deep-dive on and challenge technical solutions to find the right
compromise between product, business and engineering objectives,
short-term and long-term, ensuring quality and reliability of the
components your teams are responsible for,
Leading a team of engineering managers with various seniority levels, helping them grow in all directions,
Creating and nurturing a culture of collaboration, performance, and accountability across all your teams,
Ability
to articulate and communicate technical challenges to senior
stakeholders, contribute to the roadmap, both for your teams and for the
whole engineering department.
Qualifications
What you will need to be successful:
8-10 years experience in engineering teams within hyper-growth tech companies
Experience leading and growing engineering managers
Strong track record in technical contribution, ability to challenge technical solutions
Hands-on, detail-oriented, pragmatic and collaborative attitude
Comfortable with change, uncertainty and a high velocity environment
Fluent in English, French is a plus
Additional Information
A few practical details about the role
Start: As soon as you are ready!
Location: Paris HQ
Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)
Compensation: Competitive package based on experience
What we offer all of our employees
A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact
Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment
An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces
Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”
Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend
Possibility to do a BlaBlaSwap once a year and go work from another BlaBlaOffice abroad
Bi-Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other
Weekly Tech Demos
The choice between Mac or PC equipment
Opportunity to attend Tech conferences in France and Europe
What is next?
If
you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload
your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English.
Kindly
note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring
team and that all your information will be kept confidential.
You
can expect us to review your application within the following 3 weeks.
If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you
for a first call followed a few onsite interviews.
BlaBlaCar
is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are
committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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