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

Responsibilities

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

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

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.

Versátil 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.

Remote work within the EU: Work up to 20 business days every 6 months from all countries in the European Union & Switzerland.

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Driver Onboarding) (Madrid)
🏢 Freenow
📍 Madrid