You want to build a spaceship to fly to Mars and experience the Universe? Well, we are not building spaceships yet, but we will radically change the way we travel in the future.
As we love our planet, we believe in shared mobility and the freedom to move regardless of your income or your age. By reducing the need for your own car, maximising the usage with shared rides and supporting the next-gen of electric vehicles, we believe we can play a major role to improve the way we move in cities and make them a better, more sustainable place.
Now the decision is on you! You have a once in a lifetime chance to join this journey.
Who we are
Be part of a brand new team where autonomous driving is only the beginning. And even more amazing, you don’t have to wait 10 more years to experience autonomous driving, we already experiment with real prototypes on real streets.
During the last months, we´ve built a team of smart engineers that can’t wait to welcome you to be part of the family.
We at FREE NOW believe that we are only able to solve these amazing challenges by having technical excellence and moving faster. But maybe even more important, having more fun than every other team out there. We care for each other!
What you can expect
We work in small multifunctional and diverse teams where you'll find people from all around the world.
Our main goal is to make ride-hailing companies autonomous ready. We believe also that shuttle service and autonomous driving are really close to each other. Therefore the team will focus on three main areas:
- Autonomous experience: This includes a rider app, in-vehicle experience (e.g. ride-simulation on a tablet), a safety driver app (yes, we still need humans for a few more years) and features for autonomous vehicle interaction (e.g. car body functions)
- Shuttle functionality: We believe autonomous vehicles should be shared as a default. As we have full control over the car we focus, beside a great user journey, on optimising pickup rate and pooling algorithms in close collaboration with our Data Science team
- Routing and Mapping: A human driver has a lot of knowledge around the street conditions. We need to simulate this for our future Robo-Taxi and we will build our own mapping and routing capabilities.
To be clear. You will build something no one has built before. Therefore we will take fast decisions, change the path where necessary and expect own ideas and impulses from every engineer.
Tech stack
Our technology stack is mainly based on Kotlin and Java (but we firmly believe that every language is beautiful), our microservices are running on AWS, we are a big fan of Docker and we monitor everything with our ELK infrastructure.
So, if you…
...love an agile and fast-paced environment
...like to write (good and clean) code
...have your own ideas on how to influence the product
...want to challenge yourself and learn new stuff every day
...make a difference
it definitely makes sense for you to apply now. We are happy to challenge you the following way:
Recruiting Process
We believe finding the right people is the core of success. It should be challenging as well as fun and give you a transparent picture what you can expect from your new role. During the process we focus on three core areas:
- Tech Excellence: Meet our amazing engineers, present them your thoughts and discuss different technical solutions
- Motivation: Have a great conversation with our leadership team and convince them about the why behind your application
- Teamfit: This is the best part of the process. You will have the chance to meet your future colleagues. If you are in Europe we will organize a meeting in person, otherwise a virtual one.
Then we will offer you a job with one of the most exciting teams you could imagine + some great benefits!
What can we offer you?
Benefits benefits = Benefits.builder()
.setFurtherTraining(WORKSHOPS, CREATIVE_DAYS, LANGUAGE_COURSES)
.setMonetaryBenefits(
PENSION_PLAN,
FREE_TAXI_RIDES,
PUBLIC_TRANSPORT_TICKET,
URBAN_SPORTS_CLUB)
.setFoodAndDrinks(
FRUIT_BASKET,
FREE_BEER,
SOFT_DRINKS)
.setEvents(MONTHLY_AFTER_WORK, OFF_SITE, TEAM_EVENTS, BBQ)
.build();
jobOffer.addBenefits(benefits);
Oh, and the opportunity to work with the best team in the world (we know, everybody says so, but at FREE NOW it’s true)!
And now you made it - you are already part of the top 10% who read the whole job description - use the codeword “flying unicorn” to prove our recruiting team that you are truly interested ;-)
About FREE NOW:
FREE NOW was founded as mytaxi in June 2009 and was the world’s first taxi app that established a direct connection between a passenger and a taxi driver.
In July 2019, mytaxi rebranded to FREE NOW as part of a global mobility brand family and set itself up as a multiservice mobility provider. With 14 million passengers and more than 100,000 drivers, FREE NOW is one of the leading ride-hailing providers in Europe. Since February 2019, the service is part of the FREE NOW group, the ride-hailing joint venture of BMW and Daimler.
FREE NOW today works with more than 700 employees in 26 offices and is available in over 100 European cities. Eckart Diepenhorst is leading the operational business as CEO Europe of FREE NOW.
More information is available at: www.free-now.com
