About this role
Location: Come and join us in Barcelona!
We are looking for a talented and motivated Backend Engineer (m/f/d) for our Supply Driver Quality Team.
Responsibilities
- Measuring and analyzing driver performance, providing actionable metrics to both drivers and internal teams.
- Supporting document processes and document automatic validation processes, collaborating with other teams and Operations to maintain and increase the automation of document and validation processes.
- Enabling self-service capabilities, empowering drivers to manage their accounts efficiently.
- Providing access to support tools, ensuring drivers receive timely assistance.
- Integrating key insights into internal systems, fostering collaboration across teams.
- Own the Feature, Own the Code – feel responsible for what you create. It all starts with bringing in your feature ideas, goes over development, testing and ends in deploying your code and monitoring it.
- Design and develop systems based on product requirements or refactorings.
- Maintain and improve the existing systems by finding bottlenecks and performance issues and improving resource usage (DB access, cache, messaging, etc.).
- Collaborate with your team members in an Agile environment, contribute to and live our agile ceremonies.
- You care about teamwork: Be accountable for all topics above, but work together with the team on them.
- Stay on top of the latest technology trends and bring best practices to our daily work.
- Passionate about Kotlin or Java.
- Experience with the quirks of Spring Boot or similar frameworks, automated tests and CI/CD tools.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana, Datadog, Kibana etc.).
- Knowledge of microservices architecture.
- Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful API’s, dealing with transactions, and resiliency.
Requirements
- Familiar with messaging by using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- High level of creativity; there’s all the freedom to think outside the box.
- Be communicative, proactive, and always collaborative.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Experience working with AWS or similar cloud service providers.
- Familiar with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
- Flexible working arrangements
- LinkedIn Learning
- Sabbatical & special leave policies
- WeRoad partnership
- Birthday, 24th + 31st December off
- Short term EU work policy
- Mobility Credit
- Health Insurance
- Employee assistance program
Nice to have
- Experience working with AWS or similar cloud service providers.
- Familiar with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
- BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL:
- Flexible working arrangements
- LinkedIn Learning
- Sabbatical & special leave policies
- WeRoad partnership
- Birthday, 24th + 31st December off
- Short term EU work policy
- Mobility Credit
- Health Insurance
- Employee assistance program
- DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:
- FREE NOW is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
- We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work.
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About FREENOW
We are Freenow, the European taxi app with the broadest multi-mobility offering, available in 9 markets and over 180 cities. Our app gives millions of passengers the freedom to move with a wide choice of services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds and public transport.Headquartered in Hamburg and led by our CEO Thomas Zimmermann, we are on a mission to make urban mobility more efficient, sustainable and inclusive.Since July 2025 we have been part of Lyft, a global mobility platform connecting riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together we are building a more caring and connected world, creating new opportunities for innovation, growth and impact.