Backend Engineer

About this role

Responsibilities

• Building a driver loyalty and rewards system, to recognize and retain top-performing drivers
• Measuring and analyzing driver performance, providing actionable metrics to both drivers and internal teams.
• 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.
• Write high-quality automated tests (unit, integration, functional) and proactively identify and remediate security risks in your components.
• Review and approve code reviews for your team's services, and speak up when you see a better way to do things.
• Participate in and contribute to your engineering chapter/craft community — sharing learnings, best practices, and feedback.
• Take part in incident response and hotfixes, and keep documentation for the systems you own up to date so others can build on your 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.).

Requirements

• Knowledge of microservices architecture.
• Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful API’s, dealing with transactions, and resiliency.
• 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.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI tools into your engineering workflow — coding, testing, debugging, or documentation.
• 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

About FREENOW

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Through our multi-mobility app, we feature broad options for everyone across 9 European markets and over 180 cities. Millions of passengers can access services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport within a single app. In July 2025 Freenow was acquired by Lyft, a global mobility platform, which connects riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together, Freenow and Lyft are creating a more caring and connected world, with transportation for everyone. We are a global, diverse, highly motivated, and collaborative team that strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Ready for your next ride? SEE WHAT OUR AWESOME COLLEAGUES SAY ABOUT US: