Senior Backend Engineer (Driver Onboarding)

We are looking for a talented and motivated Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d) for our new Driver Onboarding team.

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Responsibilities

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• As part of a highly skilled, cross‑functional team comprising Fullstack Engineers, Backend Engineers, a Product Manager, a Product Designer, a Data Analyst, and a technical Engineering Manager, you will help shape the future of mobility with FREENOW and assist our drivers in their daily work.
  
• Our team is the cornerstone of the driver experience, with a core focus on streamlining the driver registration flow and ensuring the integrity of our platform through advanced document validation processes.
  
• Designing and implementing the entire driver registration and onboarding journey, making it simple, intuitive, and fast.
  
• Developing and maintaining robust, automated document validation systems, powered by LLMs and ML models, to ensure compliance and quick approval for drivers.
  
• Collaborating closely with Operations and other engineering teams to constantly optimize process automation within the document lifecycle.
  
• Providing self‑service tools that empower drivers to efficiently manage their documentation and account details.
  
• Integrating key insights into internal systems, fostering collaboration across teams to improve the overall driver experience.
  
• Our work directly impacts thousands of drivers and ultimately the experiences of millions of customers; your contributions will have a tangible and far‑reaching effect on many lives.
  
• As an engineer on our team, you will tackle the exciting challenges of building a best‑in‑class driver onboarding platform.
  
• Designing and building innovative, high‑scale solutions for document validation and workflow automation, directly enhancing the start‑to‑finish experience for our drivers and ensuring the quality and compliance of our fleet.
  
• You’ll be involved in every stage of product development, from ideation to implementation, ensuring a seamless and impactful experience.
  
• We value a mindset that challenges the status quo, constantly exploring new technologies and approaches to improve our products and maintain a state‑of‑the‑art codebase. Beyond technical excellence, your contributions will help foster a collaborative and inspiring team culture, making our workplace an enjoyable and fulfilling environment.
  
• 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.
  
• Work as a team player, be accountable for all topics above, but work together with the team on them.
  
• Stay on top of the latest technology trends and AI‑assisted development tools, and bring best practices to our daily work.
  
• Tech stack includes Kotlin, Java, AWS, Docker, Git, Kafka, ElasticSearch and more.
  

Qualifications

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• Comfortable with AI‑first development practices, using tools such as Claude and Cursor daily; experience or strong interest in AI‑assisted coding is important.
  
• Knowledge of microservices architecture.
  
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Grafana, Datadog, Kibana, etc.).
  
• High level of creativity; freedom to think outside the box.
  
• Passionate about Kotlin or Java.
  
• Familiar with messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
  
• Excellent communicator, proactive and collaborative.
  
• Experience with Spring Boot or similar frameworks, automated tests and CI/CD tools.
  
• Understanding of scalable web application principles, such as RESTful APIs, transactions and resiliency.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
  
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud service providers.
  
• Experience in Python, particularly for data processing or AI integration tasks.
  
• Experience with document automation validation.
  
• Familiar with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
  

Benefits

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• Sabbatical leave: Get rewarded for your hard work with a sabbatical after two years.
  
• Employee assistance program: Your wellbeing is our priority, anonymous external support is always available.
  
• Welcome & anniversary gifts: We’ll send you a little something to celebrate these special occasions.
  
• Mobility benefits card: Get from A to B on us. Every month you’ll get a mobility budget to try out different transport options.
  
• Flexible work options: Work as you are and where you want with flexible hours and remote opportunities.
  
• Talent development: Your growth is important to us. Progress your career with dedicated training courses and regular development check‑ins.
  
• Birthday off: Celebrate in style with an extra day off each year. xqbhyrx
  
• Remote work within the EU: Work up to 20 business days every 6 months from all countries in the European Union & Switzerland.
  

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