Senior Backend Engineer - Marketplace Pricing- Paris or Remote

Backend Engineer - Marketplace

It’s a match! 

In our team, we are connecting our best drivers to passengers in order to provide them with the perfect ride experience.
We build and optimise our dispatching algorithms with the goal to guarantee a fast pick-up of our customers and lowering the amount of empty kilometers for our drivers.  In order to achieve that, we are solving an optimisation problem and need to choose the right trade-offs to detect the sweet spot between multiple criteria.

By efficiently utilising our available fleet, while maintaining a great user experience, we are one of the core contributors to the success of our company. 

In a perfect world the dispatching system is a win/win for our environment, drivers and passengers.

We aren’t there yet – which is why we need you! Join our team if you have a passion for complex systems and love to create the magic that happens in the background.

Your day-to-day responsibilities:

• Design and develop systems based on product requirements or refactoring
• Own the feature, own the code – feel responsible for what you create(e)This covers
• bringing in your own feature ideas
• high quality software development
• testing
• deploying your code to test and live systems
• monitoring the feature
• Collaborate with your team members in an agile environment, contribute to and live our agile ceremonies
• Be accountable for all topics above, but work together with the team on them
• Stay on top of the latest technology trends, apply the best practices to our daily work

Qualifications you should bring:

• Passionate about Java and/or Kotlin, writing good and clean code and relevant experience as software engineer
• Familiar with the quirks of Spring (Boot) or similar frameworks
• Experienced (or eager to learn) about distributed systems
• Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful API’s, dealing with transactions and resiliency
• High level of creativity, there’s all the freedom to think outside the box
• Degree in computer science or similar
• A great plus if you have familiarity with taxi dispatching problem
• Fluent proficiency in English

The interview process will be in 4 stages and should be completed in less than 4 weeks:

1st - Interview with one of our Talent Acquisition partners - this will be a get to meet you interview, sharing more details about you and discussing the role and FREE NOW in general.

2nd – Live coding challenge with two of our senior Engineers.  An opportunity for you to experience what our engineers do on a day-to-day basis.  Two of our Senior Engineers will review your challenge with you, look at ways of improving it, challenge you on your decisions but also for you to defend your code.  We are a non-egocentric organisation; we expect to be challenged and to challenge.

3rd – Hiring Manager.  Meet with the HM, opportunity to discuss your career, what is important to you, what can FREE NOW do to make you successful

4th – Meet the Team.  Get to know your team and what makes them tick

Outside of your salary, your benefits could include (if located in Germany, slightly different benefits apply to other countries)

• Birthday off
• Public transport subsidy of €20 p/month
• €50 p/month credit for Taxis (MyTaxi Obviously!)
• Subsidised Gym membership 
• Company pension plan with 50% subsidy up to a max of €120/month
• Free Language Courses
• €500 Annual Personal Training Budget
• Access to Udemy Training Suite
• Quarterly Team Events
• 27 vacation days plus 24th and 31st December are company holidays

Diversity and inclusion:

 At FREE NOW, we commit to being an equal opportunity employer(e)We consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age(e)We celebrate diversity and have a clear vision: to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and do their best work(e)Together with passionate, creative and collaborative colleagues, we are following our purpose of making mobility available for everyone.

Move like you

At FREE NOW we have colleagues from over 70 nations! We value open communication and welcome everyone as they are(e)We are all one team and follow the same goals – that’s why we share our insights and results to get on track together every month. 

Your wellness and work-life balance matters to us(e)We offer trust-based and flexible working hours as well as the option to work from home(e)In the office, you can enjoy our free drinks and daily fresh fruit(e)Do you like to be active? Take part in our subsidised gym membership(e)Bigger plans? Take a sabbatical leave and get out there!

Let’s grow together! We believe in a transparent career growth plan, quarterly development sessions with your team lead as well as regular 1:1s to help you thrive! For your own ideas, you’re welcome to set up initiatives and projects.

Need a lift? We offer Udemy e-learning platform, subsidised language classes, internal peer-to-peer trainings and more to support your learning & development opportunities.

More Benefits? ? Monthly mobility budget for FREE NOW rides, quarterly team events, company-wide onboarding days at our HQ in Hamburg, relocation assistance for internationals, birthday-off, kudos and many more!

About FREE NOW:

FREE NOW is the Mobility Super App with the largest vehicle choice for consumers across Europe(e)More than 54 million users in 16 markets and in over 170 cities today are already moving freely from A to B by accessing the largest selection of mobility options available in one app(e)Through the unique integration of mobility brands and payment services, they can book their nearest taxi, private hire vehicle, car sharing or micro-mobility option such as eScooters, eMopeds, and eBikes within the app(e)FREE NOW aggregates numerous mobility brands with the ambition to make urban mobility more efficient and sustainable without adding new vehicles on the street(e)The German based company is backed by the BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz Mobility(e)In total, around 1,850 employees in more than 27 offices work for the services of FREE NOW, which is led by CEO Marc Berg.