Confirmed Backend Engineer - Payment Squad

About BlaBlaCar BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 40 million active members to share rides across 41 countries each year. Its technology matches drivers with empty seats with passengers heading the same way, so they can share the cost of the trip. BlaBlaCar’s mission is to be the go-to marketplace for shared travel, bringing carpooling, buses, and trains together in one place. Globally, the BlaBlaCar Group also includes Obilet, the leading online bus ticketing platform in Turkey. By partnering with over 20,000 operators, the Group offers a wide choice of affordable and sustainable transport solutions. In 2025, the BlaBlaCar community connected 2.7 million meeting points worldwide and enabled 138 million connections between travelers. Drivers saved 568 million euros by carpooling, and all of the BlaBlaCar Group’s mobility services contributed to avoiding 4 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. Your Mission We are looking for a Confirmed Backend Engineer to join the Payment Squad. They manage BlaBlaCar’s payment solutions that provide reliability, trust and smooth end-to-end experience. As a Backend Engineer, your role will be to contribute to delivering a reliable and, scalable platform that supports the full payment lifecycle, fraud fight and compliance requirements. This includes participating in the integration of new payment methods, interacting with our numerous payment services providers, and displaying a strong ownership of the payment experience from end-to-end together with frontend developers. You will be reporting to the squad's Engineering Manager and working with a team of 10 Backend and Frontend Software Engineers and a Product Manager. Your responsibilities • Participate in the whole application lifecycle, from early meetings and design to development, test strategy, and deployment and of course, monitoring, alerting, and support. • Participate in the definition of the features with the product and design teams to find the most relevant solutions for our members • Interact with people with different roles and backgrounds, and share your technical expertise with a mix of technical, product, and business people Your qualifications • You have 3+ years of experience from companies with a strong engineering culture, within a growth context. • You are fluent in Java and know frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit, and Mockito. • You have hands-on experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes , and monitoring solutions (Datadog). • You know what service-oriented architecture looks like, and you can determine when to apply a given architectural pattern. • You have good communication skills, you’re humble and you're a team player. • 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 60-min video-call with Julien, Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and share more details about the squad • a 90-min live coding session with Software Engineers • a 60-min design interview with Software Engineers • a 30-min video-call for vision fit and rounding off the process 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. BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.