About BlaBlaCarBlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel network, connecting over 100 million members across 22 countries looking to carpool or travel by bus. By sharing rides and filling empty seats on the road, our community avoids 1.6 million tons of CO2 emissions every year (as if Paris was free of road traffic for a year!)We are a global and diverse team of 700+ people with 45+ nationalities, and headquartered in Paris. We’re constantly looking for new ways to leverage technology to create a more affordable, convenient, flexible and sustainable way to travel. And we are always on the lookout for people who care about making a positive impact.
Making a good first impression is key when you meet someone new. At BlaBlaCar, this is the job of the Discover squad.
As Engineering Manager of the Discover squad, your mission is to lead a team of frontend and backend engineers to support our SEO and SEA efforts and to build the best possible experience for users when they arrive on our platform.
Whether it’s the home page or specialized landing pages, the job of the squad is to gather all the rides we offer across our multimodal offer (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 request and web performance).
To achieve your mission, you and your team will work with a Product Manager, a Product Designer, a Data Analyst and a team of SEO experts.Your responsibilities
- Defining with your Product Manager the team’s OKRs and the roadmap to achieve them
- Making sure that the projects are properly scoped and defined (high level architecture, delivery and roll-out plan, etc.)
- Ensuring that the team delivers the technical solutions to achieve the team’s OKRs while matching our standard of quality
- Collaborating with other product and engineering teams to provide and receive the proper support and achieve cross-team objectives
- Managing team organization, staffing, hiring, career and personal development of your team staff
- Fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the team.
Your qualifications
- A first experience in a management position with proven people management skills
- Strong leadership and communication skills, both written and oral
- Experience in managing development processes using agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
- Experience in building solutions based on a Java and/or a TypeScript/React technology stack
- Strong problem-solving skills and a track record of getting things done
- Ability to take a step back, prioritize and focus on added-value tasks
- Aligned with our company principle
- Fluency in English
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!Hiring process
- 45-min interview with Elodie Négoti to talk about your motivation for the role, your career path and assess your communication skills
- 50-min interview with Gilles Laborderie (Hiring Manager) to assess your agility, business prioritization and leadership skills
- 50-min interview with Louise Guibal to assess your engineering management skills
- 50-min interview with Shahil Hiridjee and Khadija Sahnoun to asess your product amp; design mindset amp; teamwork (as you will have to work a lot with them)
- 30-min wrap-up discussion withOlivier Bonnet, our CTO to share ambitions and the engineering vision
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.