Senior Backend Engineer- Public Transport - Paris or Remote

Hamburg or Remote in one of the 11 countries we operate in.

We as FREE NOW are the biggest multi mobility platform across Europe offering a huge portfolio of mobility options like e-scooters, e-bikes, carsharing or mopeds built upon our roots in ride hailing like taxi and private hire vehicle services(e)We are looking for a quality focussed and technically curious Senior Backend Engineer to build great software for our customer facing Public Transport Team.

As we love our planet, we believe in shared mobility and the freedom to move regardless of your income or your age(e)By reducing the need for your own car, maximising the usage with shared rides and supporting the next-gen of electric vehicles, we believe we can play a major role to improve the way we move in cities and make them a better, more sustainable place.

The last missing piece to reach every customer and offer a seamless mobility experience is integrating Public Transport into our platform(e)Therefore we’re searching for talented and ambitious Engineers who want to join our journey and improve the journey for everyone else(e)Together with the Team you will be responsible for discovering how the integration will look like, ship & improve it continuously.

We focus on three main areas in our Multi Mobility Teams:

• 2 Wheeled Vehicles: This includes shaping the experiences for micro-mobility, integrating with different service providers and creating a seamless user experience.
• Car Sharing & Shuttle: We believe in a future where an own car is not needed anymore and traffic in the city will be significantly decreased(e)So whether you decide on a pooled ride or want to rent your own car we will provide the right solution for you.
• Public Transportation: The missing part to reach everyone is the integration of Public Transport in the Cities, creating synergies between vehicle types and being able to offer a intermodal journey for everyone.

Your responsibilities:

• Own the Feature, Own the Code, Own the Microservice – feel responsible for what you create(e)This starts with bringing in your own feature ideas, includes coding, testing and ends in deploying your code and 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 always stay a team player
• Stay on top of the latest technology trends, apply the best practices to our daily work
• Implement clean and scaled microservices
• Maintainability of existing features and be able to debug potential issues
• Bring in a strong team spirit and be humble to make decisions as a team
• Learn continuously and share your knowledge with your peers
• Solve real problems that impact real users

What you should bring:

• A deep and broad experience with Kotlin and Java, writing good and clean code.
• Familiarity with Spring Boot or similar frameworks
• Experienced about distributed systems
• Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful API’s, dealing with transactions and resiliency
• Experience with caching strategies using Redis
• Familiar with messaging by using RabbitMQ / Kafka or others
• Experience with testing in the whole software life cycle (unit / integration / system)
• Strong experience with relational database
• Familiar with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
• Be communicative, proactive, collaborative and enjoy working in a group

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 Europe’s leading multi-mobility platform backed by BMW Group and Daimler AG(e)Next to ride hailing, FREE NOW also offers micro-mobility services such as e-scooters, e-bikes, e-vespas as well as car sharing(e)It consists of the services FREE NOW (10 European markets) and Βeat (5 Latin American and 1 European market)(e)Summed up, those services currently attract 50 million users in 16 markets and more than 150 cities(e)FREE NOW is therefore the biggest multi-service mobility provider in Europe and the fastest-growing ride-hailer in Latin America(e)FREE NOW works with various third party providers to offer their customers an even wider range of options to get from A to B(e)In total, around 1,900 employees in around 35 offices work for the services of FREE NOW, which is led by CEO Marc Berg.