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title: 'Backend Engineer at Freenow by Lyft'
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# Backend Engineer at Freenow by Lyft

- **Company:** Freenow by Lyft
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/freenow/jobs/8113888

## Job description

Location: Come and join us in Barcelona!

We are looking for a talented and motivated Backend Engineer (m/f/d) for our Driver Engagement Team.

As part of a highly skilled, cross-functional team comprising Mobile Engineers, Backend Engineers, a Product Manager, a Product Designer, a Data Analyst, and an Engineering Manager, you will help shape the future of mobility with Freenow by Lyft and assist our drivers in their daily work.

Our team is dedicated to enhancing the Engagement and Quality of Service (QoS) for drivers, ensuring they have the tools and insights needed to deliver exceptional service. We achieve this by:

- Building a driver loyalty and rewards system, to recognize and retain top-performing drivers
- Measuring and analyzing driver performance, providing actionable metrics to both drivers and internal teams.
- Enabling self-service capabilities, empowering drivers to manage their accounts efficiently.
- Providing access to support tools, ensuring drivers receive timely assistance.
- Integrating key insights into internal systems, fostering collaboration across teams.

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 exciting challenges, including designing and building innovative products that enhance urban mobility—creating solutions that are delightful, sustainable, and tailored to the needs of our users. 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.

We actively use AI tools throughout our development lifecycle — from coding to testing to documentation — and expect team members to be curious about and skilled in leveraging them effectively.

## 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 bring best practices to our daily work.
- Write high-quality automated tests (unit, integration, functional) and proactively identify and remediate security risks in your components.
- Review and approve code reviews for your team's services, and speak up when you see a better way to do things.
- Participate in and contribute to your engineering chapter/craft community — sharing learnings, best practices, and feedback.
- Take part in incident response and hotfixes, and keep documentation for the systems you own up to date so others can build on your work.

Our Techstack: Kotlin | Java | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka | ElasticSearch &[more](https://stackshare.io/free-now)

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.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana, Datadog, Kibana etc.).
- Knowledge of microservices architecture.
- 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.
- Familiar with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
- Hands-on experience integrating AI tools into your engineering workflow — coding, testing, debugging, or documentation.

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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOUL_n8pSGQ).

## 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:

https://www.glassdoor.de/%C3%9Cberblick/Arbeit-bei-FREE-NOW-EI_IE954578.11,19.htm       https://www.kununu.com/de/mytaxi-intelligent-apps        https://www.linkedin.com/company/free-now/life/2b1603ea-741a-49f8-9847-f1214f483a1a/

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## About Freenow by Lyft

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Freenow is a European multi-mobility app (formerly mytaxi) that connects users to taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport across 180+ cities in nine European markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Subsidiary of Lyft, acquired July 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Hamburg, Germany
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Niclaus Mewes, Sven Külper, Tomás Ó Riain

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Mobility as a Service (MaaS) / Internet Marketplace Platforms
- **Target customers**: B2C (passengers), B2B (corporate travel via Freenow for Business), and B2B (drivers/transport providers)
- **Mission or purpose**: To make urban mobility safe, reliable, accessible, and sustainable for all — providing mobility that sets people free.

## Products & Services
- **Freenow App (Consumer)**: A single mobile app offering taxis, private hire vehicles (PHV), carsharing, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, car rental, and public transport integration across 9 European markets.
- **Freenow for Business**: A corporate travel management solution allowing companies to manage employee ground transportation with invoicing, tracking, and policy controls. Used by over 15,000 companies across 9 countries and 150+ cities.
- **Freenow Driver App**: A platform for drivers providing flexibility, real-time trip tracking, quick payments, and support.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Acquired by Lyft in July 2025 for €175 million.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $100.6M across 9 prior funding rounds (prior to acquisition). Headcount of ~1,685 employees (2025).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Formerly owned by the BMW/Daimler joint venture "Your Now" (which invested €1B in mobility services); now wholly owned by Lyft.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew +2.1% year-over-year; active job postings up +69.4% quarterly and +5.2% yearly; operates in over 180 cities across 9 European countries; allocated €100M+ for fleet electrification (2021-2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Broadest multi-mobility offering in Europe**: Combines taxis, PHV, carsharing, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport in a single app — a unique aggregation play.
- **Lyft backing**: Post-acquisition, Freenow gains access to Lyft's global scale, technology, and operational expertise, creating a transatlantic mobility powerhouse.
- **Deep taxi industry integration**: Strong relationships with local taxi fleets and regulators across 9 European markets, built over 15+ years.
- **Sustainability focus**: Committed to promoting eco-friendly mobility and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with a €100M+ electrification program.

## Strategic Focus
- **Post-acquisition integration**: Deepening ties with Lyft to create a seamless global mobility platform across North America and Europe.
- **Autonomous vehicle readiness**: Active hiring for "Senior Partnership Manager - Autonomous Vehicle" and "City Fleet Manager - Autonomous Vehicle" roles, indicating strategic preparation for AV deployment.
- **Market expansion**: Maintaining and strengthening presence in 9 core European markets after withdrawing from Portugal, Romania, and Sweden in 2022.
- **Sustainability**: Accelerating fleet electrification and reducing carbon emissions across operations and marketplace.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "go-getting, people-loving cityholics" with values of decisive action, high-performing team mindset, and data-driven decision-making. Teams are diverse (70+ nationalities across 26 offices).
- **Flexibility**: Flexible work options with remote opportunities across the EU; can work up to 20 business days every 6 months from any EU country or Switzerland.
- **Perks**: Mobility benefits card (monthly budget to try different transport options), sabbatical leave after two years, birthday off, welcome & anniversary gifts, employee assistance program.
- **Growth**: Dedicated training courses, regular development check-ins, and career progression opportunities.
- **Work environment**: Fast-paced, inclusive, collaborative with a focus on impact and innovation.

## Sources
1. [Freenow About Us](https://www.free-now.com/fr-en/about-us/)
2. [Freenow Careers Page](https://www.free-now.com/career/)
3. [Freenow Job Board (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/freenow)
4. [Freenow LinkedIn](https://de.linkedin.com/company/freenow)
5. [Freenow Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenow)

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