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About BlaBlaCarBlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 26 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.
Your Mission
As an Engineering Manager your mission will be to lead the Bus Aggregation Engine team responsible for search and caching engines in the Global Distribution System (GDS) while making its inventory grow (connecting new and maintaining existing carriers over adaptors technology).To achieve your mission, you and your team will work with two Product Managers, QA specialists, a Data Analyst, and multiple internal stakeholders working on the BlaBlaCar app.In addition to your Engineering Manager role, you will have to support the platform Technical Architecture vision renewal, adapting it to the 2025-2027 known challenges. The role will be reporting to the Head of Engineering Bus Aggregation.
Your Responsibilities
• Manage the team, consisting of FTEs and contracts, and together with two product managers define the team’s OKRs and the roadmap to achieve them• Ensure that product initiatives are properly scoped and defined (high-level architecture, delivery, roll-out plan, etc.) and that the team delivers the technical solutions to achieve the OKRs while matching our standard of quality and business constraints• Contribute and partially own the strategy for both horizontal and vertical integrations of the product with multiple internal and external parties• Adopt and own a healthy and smooth process with the rest of the BlaBlaCar stakeholders• Manage team organization, staffing, hiring, career, and personal development of your team staff• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration, continuous improvement, and cohesive teamwork between the Bus Aggregation Engine and other engineering teams• At a manageable level of detail understand, embody, and complete in collaboration with key stakeholders the technical architecture vision of the high-load multi-instance GDS Platform

Your Qualifications
• Confirmed experience both, as a senior software engineer (5 yrs min) and as software engineering team manager (2 years min).• Strong leadership and communication skills, both written and oral• Experience in managing development processes using Agile methodologies such as Scrum/Kanban• Experience as an owner and/or main stakeholder of the software architecture• Experience in building high-load products•Strong problem-solving skills and a track record of getting things done• Comfortable with BlaBlaCar culture and product• Fluency in English, Ukrainian
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:
• Full remote possible in the country of employment• 4 additional weeks parental leave 100% paid• Financial support for home office equipment• 25 days holiday per year + RTT• Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France)• 50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable)• Relocation package and visa support• Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides• Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs• Employee Stock Ownership plan• Regular team building events• Mental health support through Moka.care
Interested in joining the ride?
Here’s what your hiring journey will look like:• 45-min interview with Chloé Friess our Tam to check your qualifications, English, and ability to travel to Ukraine/France, if needed.•60-min interview with Mykhailo Pysarskyi to check your ability to be both hands-on and keep a high-level vision, people management, problem-solving, and interactions with the rest of the BlaBlaCar ecosystem •50-min technical interview to check your architecture skills, system design TBD•60 min team interview tp meet Shahil Hiridjee, Kyrylo Chykhradze, Yevhen Horiachun•45-min discussion with Nicolas Salvy, VP Engineering•30-min wrap-up with Olivier Bonnet, CTO
Usually, our hiring process lasts 20-25 days and offers come within 48 hours.
Not sure yet? Check out our 100 reasons to join BlaBlaCar!BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 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.

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