Fullstack Software Engineer

Location: Come and join us in Barcelona! We are looking for a talented and motivated Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d) for our new Driver Onboarding team. 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. Our mission is to provide a fast, frictionless, and secure onboarding journey for every new driver. We achieve this by: * 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. 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 tangible and far-reaching effect on the lives of many. As an engineer on our team, you will tackle the exciting challenges of building a best-in-class driver onboarding platform. This includes 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 also 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE: * 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. * You care about teamwork: 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. Our Techstack: Kotlin | Java | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka | ElasticSearch & more ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE: * Passionate about Kotlin or Java. * Experience with the quirks of Spring Boot or similar frameworks, automated tests and CI/CD tools. * Knowledge of microservices architecture. * Comfortable with AI-first development practices, we use tools like Claude and Cursor daily, so experience or strong interest in AI-assisted coding is important. * Familiarity with monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana, Datadog, Kibana etc.). * Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful API’s, dealing with transactions, and resiliency. * Familiar with messaging by using Kafka or RabbitMQ. * High level of creativity; there’s all the freedom to think outside the box. * Be communicative, proactive, and always collaborative. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Nice to have:  * Experience working 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 & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL: * Flexible working arrangements * LinkedIn Learning * Sabbatical & special leave policies * WeRoad partnership * Birthday, 24th + 31st December off * Short term EU work policy * Mobility Credit * Health Insurance * Employee assistance program   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION: FREE NOW is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work. ABOUT US: Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Through our multi-mobility app, we feature broad options for everyone across 9 European markets and over 180 cities. Millions of passengers can access services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport within a single app.  In July 2025 Freenow was acquired by Lyft, a global mobility platform, which connects riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together, Freenow and Lyft are creating a more caring and connected world, with transportation for everyone. We are a global, diverse, highly motivated, and collaborative team that strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Ready for your next ride? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEE WHAT OUR AWESOME COLLEAGUES SAY ABOUT US:                 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Who we are:  At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We’re investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. At Rover we’re committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees. Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us. This role is approved for Sponsorship and provides relocation assistance to Barcelona. It is full-time permanent and hybrid (Mondays & Thursdays in our office in Poblenou, Barcelona).   About the Booking Experience Team We're the team behind one of the most critical moments in the Rover journey: making a booking. Our mission is to make it fast, easy, and intuitive for pet parents to connect with the right sitter. We're a cross-functional team based in Barcelona, working closely across engineering, product, design, and data science. We make decisions together, support each other, and share ownership of our work. Our primary metric is conversion, and because it sits at the heart of Rover's business, our work has a direct, visible impact across the platform. You'll be joining seven talented and supportive full-stack engineers who care deeply about clean code, thoughtful collaboration, and delivering high-quality user experiences. We take our work seriously, but we also love to have fun together, whether it's team lunches, offsites, or casual coffee chats on the terrace at the office. If you're looking to learn from a strong team, make an impact, and enjoy the ride along the way, we'd love to hear from you.