Blacklane

Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Berlin Full Time

 

As a Senior Frontend Software Engineer at Blacklane with a front-end focus, you will play a pivotal role in crafting seamless, user-focused experiences across our digital platforms. Focusing on areas like Guest Booking Experience.

Our Frontend team works with React, Typescript, nextJS, GraphQL, MicroFrontends, CircleCI pipelines and AWS infra.

 

Your Challenge:

  • Collaborate closely with cross functional teams to shape and deliver impactful user experiences that align with business goals.
  • Build and enhance user-centric solutions, ensuring seamless experiences throughout the user journey.
  • Provide technical leadership, including code reviews, mentoring junior developers, and offering strategic input beyond coding tasks.
  • Tackle complex technical challenges, delivering scalable solutions while working in a fast-paced scale-up environment.
  • Be open to on-call responsibilities, supporting critical systems when needed.

About You

  • Experience: A seasoned developer with 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, ideally in a scale-up environment.
  • Technical Skills: Strong expertise in React.js or any other Front End languages and a solid understanding of user-focused design principles.
  • Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate with team members, driving initiatives that go beyond individual contributions.
  • Problem Solver: Skilled at providing thoughtful input, solving challenging problems, and driving team success through innovative solutions.
  • Mindset: Passionate about creating high-quality user experiences, with a proactive approach to delivering impactful results.

 

About Blacklane

Our mission is simple but powerful: to become the world’s leading premium, global chauffeur service. Operating in 50+ countries, we reimagine chauffeur-driven rides by prioritizing reliability, innovation, and first-class service at every step. Blacklane is also at the forefront of sustainable mobility efforts, continuously working to reduce our operational impact on the planet.

Our Company Culture & Values 

Blacklane has grown from a two-person startup in Berlin to a global team of over 300 people representing 54+ nationalities. Our culture is powered by our commitment to three core values: Care, Drive and Excellence.  

  • Care - We are invested in each other's well-being and professional growth. 

  • Drive - We act with pace and determination. We are ambitious, committed to a growth mindset, and champion ownership and delivery.

  • Excellence - We understand our customers so we can exceed expectations. 

We support our people through initiatives like Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), mentorship programs that bring our values to life.

We welcome—and actively support—employees to create or join the communities that are important to them.

 

✨ Why join Blacklane?

At Blacklane, our Compensation and Benefits strategies are designed to be fair and market-aligned. We combine base salary with variable elements and long-term incentives as part of our overall rewards framework. All employees participate in our company-wide Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP), sharing in Blacklane’s long-term success.

In addition, we offer a benefits package tailored to each location, supporting health, wellbeing, time off, learning, and local needs. Some of the benefits for this role and country include:

Local perks – Germany (Berlin HQ)

🚉 Monthly BVG / Deutschlandticket subsidy to support your commute
🏦 Private pension plan with 20% employer contribution up to a monthly cap
🍲 Subsidised healthy meals via BellaBona.
🌴 28 vacation days per year, increasing with tenure
💪 Your Mental and Physical Health → No compromise with Nilo and Wellhub
🏢 Hybrid setup: 3 days a week in our Berlin HQ, right in the heart of Schöneberg
🎓 Continuous learning through LinkedIn learning and L&D budget
🚀 Fair pay and shared success through our VSOP program
🚘 Mystery Rides: Quarterly Voucher to enjoy personal trips around the world with Blacklane and experience our service from a guest’s perspective.


Do you have any questions or want to know more about our way of working? Feel free to contact us. We’re happy to connect!

We place great value on equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome everyone to apply!