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 adaptable 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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📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Driver Onboarding) (Barcelona)
🏢 Freenow
📍 Barcelona