Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.
Your Mission We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Payment Squad.
They manage BlaBlaCar’s payment solutions that provide reliability, trust, and a smooth end-to-end experience.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, your role will be to drive the delivery of a reliable and scalable platform that supports the full payment lifecycle, fraud fight, and compliance.
You will take ownership of complex, cross-functional projects—such as finalizing the implementation of our payment orchestrator—and play a key role in expanding BlaBlaCar's business by proposing and integrating tailored payment methods for our various operational countries.
You will act as a technical reference, demonstrating strong autonomy, deep architectural thinking, and the ability to synchronize with multiple external teams (Legal, Cash Management & Finance, Payment Ops).
You will be reporting to the squad's Engineering Manager and working closely with a team of Software Engineers and a Product Manager.
Take a step back to proactively propose platform improvements, task automation, and better observability (e.
, establishing SLO reviews with SREs and owning your monitoring and alerting stack).
Interact closely with various teams (Legal, Finance, Fraud/Payment Ops) to synchronize efforts, gather requirements, and assess cross-team impacts.