About BlaBlaCar
We are the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling more than 50 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 22 countries.

Your role will be to contribute to support operational requests from the business and work together with the DevOps team with delivery and product support and development. Your main goal - developing a solution using a modern technology stack, focusing on existing business logic in legacy code.

Your responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Manager and other engineers to refine requirements and translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
• Managing the lifecycle of bookings (requested, accepted, confirmed…)
• Uphold and improve the team's code quality standards, providing detailed feedback and mentorship through code reviews.
• Document the solutions we build and ensure our APIs and services are well understood by consumer teams.

Your qualifications:

• You have 5+ years of experience from companies with a strong engineering culture, within a growth context
• You have a solid knowledge of the Java language and ecosystem, and have good foundations in software architecture.
• You have hands-on experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions (Datadog)
• You have significant experience building, deploying, and operating backend microservices in a production environment.
• You value a product-oriented mindset and are focused on delivering business impact when designing software.
• You are not afraid to ask questions and to proactively seek feedback.
• You feel comfortable making technical choices and balancing business needs with technical constraints.
• You have good communication skills with C1 or at least B2 English
• Solid Russian skills

Tech-Stack:

Backend: Java 21 (current), Java 8, 11 (legacy), Spring Boot, JavaScript, Apache Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, OracleDB (legacy)

Infrastructure: GCP, Docker, K8s, Terraform for IaC

DevTools: Github, Datadog, JUnit

Orgtools: Slack, Jira, Confluence, Google docs

What we have to offer:

• Full remote in the Kazakhstan 5/2, UTC+1 — +3 time zones.
• Competitive compensation, probation 3 months
• Paid time off (vacation time)

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!