Frontend Developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar: a high growth, global company is looking for talent, experience and passion

A successful and innovative global start-up, backed by world-class venture capital firms, Accel Partners and Index Ventures, our HQ are based in Paris and we have international teams in Madrid, Milan, Warsaw, Hamburg, Moscow, Budapest, London, Istanbul, Mexico City and New Delhi. 

We are creating an entirely new, people powered, transport network. With dedicated customer service, state of the art web and mobile platforms, and a highly engaged community of users, BlaBlaCar is making road travel fun, money-saving and more efficient. 

Read more about us here: http://www.blablacar.com/blog/blablacar-press

Check out WIREDs feature article "BLABLACAR HAS TURNED RIDE-SHARING INTO A MULTI-MILLION-EURO BUSINESS" here: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/05/features/blablacar

Being part of the BlaBlaCar team means:

  • you will have a positive social impact on the world, as we continue to make road travel smarter and more sustainable,
  • you will work in a fast-paced environment with a highly agile team of dynamic, hyper-motivated and talented individuals,
  • you will join a global company, with a real international culture and vision; multi-lingual and highly mobile :)
  • you will be part of a supportive team that shares knowledge and empowers every single member to reach their full potential, and continue learning,
  • you will enter a high-growth structure which means that you will be constantly challenged and that your responsibilities will grow fast and change regularly.

Job Description

The Tech team is looking for a Frontend developer to build, maintain and improve responsive and elegant web interfaces. Your job will be the translation of Photoshop mock-ups from our designers into a functional, accessible and cross-browser compatible web page with the help of advanced HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The job requires to take web performance seriously, while ensuring pixel accurate design.

Working closely with the product team, backend developers and designers, you will join a small and efficient scrum team with sprints of one or two weeks while pushing continuously your work on production.

Qualifications

Your mission is to make the Internet more beautiful; building clean and usable websites is your passion. You handle image processing tools such like Photoshop blindfolded and always know which web format the export to. You are a fan of Twitter Bootstrap and know how to use it even without consulting its documentation, while being aware of its limitations. Your artworks are written in CSS, its selector model is no secret for you. If it comes to programming, JavaScript is your language of choice. You should have several years of working experience on high traffic websites, as well as a solid experience with webdesign of mobile website.

Besides a natural obsession for webdesign, you have a solid knowledge of building websites for mobile devices. You know how to work with scrum, are a team player and love to learn from and share knowledge with your peers. Curious by nature you are ready to quickly adapt to a fast-paced work environment within a growing team, while being fun & serious.

Last but not least you should have a favourite beer, a solid choice that you can explain and defend equally good in English or French, even after several of them ;)

Additional Information

  • Start : ASAP,
  • Contract : Full time,
  • Salary : according to profile and experience,
  • Position : Based in Paris (no remote working, no offshoring).

Please note that without CV, cover letter and answers to our questions, your application won't be reviewed by our hiring team.

All your information will be kept confidential.