Backend Engineer

About this role

<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><em>Location</em></strong><em>: Come and join us in Barcelona!</em></p> <p>We are looking for a talented and motivated Backend Engineer (m/f/d) for our Driver Engagement Team.</p> <p>As part of a highly skilled, cross-functional team comprising Mobile Engineers, Backend Engineers, a Product Manager, a Product Designer, a Data Analyst, and an Engineering Manager, you will help shape the future of mobility with Freenow by Lyft and assist our drivers in their daily work.&nbsp;</p> <p>Our team is dedicated to enhancing the <strong>Engagement</strong> and <strong>Quality of Service (QoS)</strong> for drivers, ensuring they have the tools and insights needed to deliver exceptional service. We achieve this by:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Building a driver loyalty and rewards system,</strong> to recognize and retain top-performing drivers</li> <li><strong>Measuring and analyzing driver performance</strong>, providing actionable metrics to both drivers and internal teams.</li> <li><strong>Enabling self-service capabilities</strong>, empowering drivers to manage their accounts efficiently.</li> <li><strong>Providing access to support tools</strong>, ensuring drivers receive timely assistance.</li> <li><strong>Integrating key insights into internal systems</strong>, fostering collaboration across teams.</li> </ul> <p>As a critical part of our company, this team's work directly impacts thousands of drivers and, ultimately, the experiences of millions of customers. Your contributions in this role will have a <strong>tangible and far-reaching effect</strong> on the lives of many.</p> <p>As an engineer on our team, you will tackle exciting challenges, including <strong>designing and building innovative products</strong> that enhance urban mobility—creating solutions that are <strong>delightful, sustainable, and tailored</strong> to the needs of our users. You'll be involved in every stage of product development, from ideation to implementation, ensuring a seamless and impactful experience.</p> <p>We also value a mindset that <strong>challenges the status quo</strong>—constantly exploring new technologies and approaches to improve our products and maintain a <strong>state-of-the-art codebase</strong>. Beyond technical excellence, your contributions will help foster a <strong>collaborative and inspiring team culture</strong>, making our workplace an enjoyable and fulfilling environment.</p> <p>We actively use AI tools throughout our development lifecycle — from coding to testing to documentation — and expect team members to be curious about and skilled in leveraging them effectively.</p> <hr> <h2><strong>YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>Design and develop systems based on product requirements or refactorings.</li> <li>Maintain and improve the existing systems by finding bottlenecks and performance issues and improving resource usage (DB access, cache, messaging, etc.).</li> <li>Collaborate with your team members in an Agile environment, contribute to and live our agile ceremonies.</li> <li>You care about teamwork: Be accountable for all topics above, but work together with the team on them.</li> <li>Stay on top of the latest technology trends and bring best practices to our daily work.</li> <li>Write high-quality automated tests (unit, integration, functional) and proactively identify and remediate security risks in your components.</li> <li>Review and approve code reviews for your team's services, and speak up when you see a better way to do things.</li> <li>Participate in and contribute to your engineering chapter/craft community — sharing learnings, best practices, and feedback.</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Our Techstack</strong>: Kotlin | Java | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka | ElasticSearch &amp;<a href="https://stackshare.io/free-now"> more</a></p> <hr> <h2><strong>TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Passionate about Kotlin or Java.</li> <li>Experience with the quirks of Spring Boot or similar frameworks, automated tests and CI/CD tools.</li> <li>Familiarity with monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana, Datadog, Kibana etc.).</li> <li>Knowledge of microservices architecture.</li> <li>Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful API’s, dealing with transactions, and resiliency.</li> <li>Familiar with messaging by using Kafka or RabbitMQ.</li> <li>High level of creativity; there’s all the freedom to think outside the box.</li> <li>Be communicative, proactive, and always collaborative.</li> <li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.</li> </ul> <p>Nice to have:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Experience working with AWS or similar cloud service providers.</li> <li>Familiar with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.</li> <li>Hands-on experience integrating AI tools into your engineering workflow — coding, testing, debugging, or documentation.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2><strong>BENEFITS &amp; PERKS IN A NUTSHELL:</strong></h2> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> <ul> <li>Flexible working arrangements</li> </ul> </td> <td> <ul> <li>LinkedIn Learning</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li>Sabbatical &amp; special leave policies</li> </ul> </td> <td> <ul> <li>WeRoad partnership</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li>Birthday, 24th + 31st December off</li> </ul> </td> <td> <ul> <li>Short term EU work policy</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li>Mobility Credit</li> </ul> </td> <td> <ul> <li>Health Insurance</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul> <li>Employee assistance program</li> </ul> </td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <h2><strong>DIVERSIT