Company Description

BlaBlaCar’s vision is to bring fairness, freedom and fraternity to the world of travel.

BlaBlaCar was created in 2006 with one dream in mind: fill the millions of empty seats on the road to create an efficient, affordable and friendly way to travel. Today, our global, trusted community counts over 90 million members in 22 countries, enabling a smarter, large scale and truly sustainable transport network.

Born from a simple idea of people sharing their rides, BlaBlaCar’s ambition is to become the go-to marketplace for shared road mobility. We offer long distance carpooling service, a commuting carpooling service, and since 2018 a marketplace bus service too. A filled bus emits one third of the emissions per passenger kilometer as an average car. So we want to fill those seats too!

In 2018, 84 million travellers used BlaBlaCar globally saving 1.6 million tons of CO2. Meanwhile we enabled human connections, bringing people closer together in more ways than one with 87% of members say that carpooling is an enriching experience.

BlaBlaCar offers a truly unique international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities, serving a global member-base from 7 offices in Berlin, Kyiv, Madrid, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw. English is the official spoken language across BlaBlaCar. We are privately-held and founder-led. Our team of 500 employees is entrepreneurial, passionate, and fundamentally mission-driven.

Why join us?

To constantly improve its usage and service, BlaBlaCar has recently a new business line that is set to fuel tremendous growth for the company. By joining the BlaBlaCar Pro team, you will have the unique opportunity of joining a new vertical at BlaBlaCar and helping us become the n.1 destination for road transport.

Within the Pro team, we are building the heart of our new technical platform dedicated to our bus transport partners. A brand-new ecosystem based on a service-oriented architecture that aims at helping worldwide bus companies to sell trips and manage their offers on our marketplace.

By joining our experienced and talented tech team, you’ll manage our 8-software engineers team that contributes to the design and development of new services for bus professionals, making sure they are robust and scalable. You’ll build new platform features and you’ll manage the integration of new bus partners APIs. Thanks to your technical and management expertise and your communications skills you’ll work closely with our product and business experts as well as tech teams and our partners.

Mission

The challenge of the Engineering Manager can be broken down into the following goals:

Manage the team and setting it up for success;
Communication and stakeholder management;
Building a vision

Managing the team and setting it up for success

Hiring and onboarding newcomers. The team is expected to scale up as operations are ramping up;
Building new expertise within the team
Taking responsibility for implementing best practices and ensure the team has the best in class processes. This is critical to maximize the productivity of the team and mitigate operational risks;
Structuring the team to scale further in 2021. This includes clarifying roles and responsibilities within the team.

Communication and stakeholder management

Handling communication for the team regarding the rest of the company. The focus is on structuring the vision for the team to the outside world;
Communicating sideways and upwards about roadmap progress, organizational changes & dependencies. Communicating downstream to update the team on the company’s context, strategy and articulate their impact for the team;
Creating close ties with stakeholders in Marketing, Finance, Product, and Engineering organizations. This is critical to ensure information flows enable the team to prioritize its work.

Building a vision

Defining a vision and objectives for the team to come up with its roadmap. Communicating with stakeholders to align on strategic priorities. In particular, this means balancing multi-year plans with short-term deliverables;
Deploying accountability frameworks to measure efficiency and improve it.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

Experience managing engineering teams within dynamic high-growth tech companies
Strong track record in technical contribution and team leadership
Ability to communicate technical and business details in writing
Comfortable with change, uncertainty, and a high-velocity environment
Entrepreneurial, hands-on, pragmatic, and collaborative attitude
Fluent in English and Russian or Ukrainian

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role:

Start: As soon as you are ready!
Location: Kyiv or full remote from Ukraine
Contract: Permanent contract
Benefits: Competitive package according to profile and experience, combined with a career development plan

What we offer all of our employees:

The opportunity to have a meaningful impact, building a CO2-saving global travel network enabling strong human connections too.
A strong “Fun & Serious” company culture
An international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities, serving a global member-base from 7 offices around the world (Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw)
State-of-the-art office spaces, in a great location

And some other great perks!

Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”.
Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend
Possibility to work from another BlaBlaOffice abroad for a week once a year (BlaBlaSwap)
The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment
Opportunity to attend Tech conferences in France and Europe
A start-up spirit grounded in agility & teamwork
Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment
Bi-Weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn from each other
Weekly Tech Demos, so that we’re all up to date with where our product stands

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