Senior Backend Engineer - Payment 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 Senior Backend Engineer to join the Payment Squad. They manage BlaBlaCar’s 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 projects—such as finalizing the implementation of our payment orchestrator—and play a key role in expanding BlaBlaCar's 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 squad's Engineering Manager and working closely with a team of Software Engineers and a Product Manager.

Your responsibilities

- 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 team's 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.

Your qualifications

- 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 our BlaBlaPrinciples

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

- 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

Interested in joining the ride?

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

• 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.