Backend Engineer

About Babbel

Founded in 2007, Babbel is the world’s first language learning app. A leader in the online language learning industry, Babbel is an international success with more than 1 million active subscribers and ranked as the world’s #1 innovative company in education. Our meticulously designed courses guarantee you language skills you can use right away. Babbel is the shortest path to real-life conversations; 73% of our users indicated that they’d be able to have a short, simple conversation in their new language within five hours of using Babbel.

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Position

• Delivering value iteratively by building high-quality applications and features
• Building, maintaining, and taking ownership of a rich ecosystem of applications and services
• Ensuring the systems you own are healthy, resilient, and perform well
• Collaborating cross-functionally on feature design, architectural decisions, and assessing technical debt
• Working with cutting-edge tools and services like Terraform to shape our AWS infrastructure or DataDog to visualize our metrics
• Shaping our coding guidelines and quality standards

Your qualification

Does this describe you?

• I have experience building scalable systems and applications using languages like Ruby, ECMAScript (Node.js), or Go
• I know how to test software on different levels: unit, integration, contract and E2E
• I know how to work on linux-based systems
• I am able to analyze metrics about system health and performance
• I enjoy learning and improving myself
• I understand lean and agile practices
• I have good communication and interpersonal skills
• I am fluent in written and spoken English

What we offer

• Flexible working hours, a company bike, family room, free fruit and soft drinks
• A startup mentality with ownership and trust from day one
• Personal and professional development with Babbel Academy in-house training
• Learn and collaborate with hackdays and lunchtime talks (with pizza!)
• Work that matters: empowering people with language
• Regular social events with friendly and diverse Babbelonians
• Office in the heart of buzzing Berlin

Come join us

Make a real impact in the world in a meaningful way at a company that values its employees.

• We’re driven by a bold challenge: Everyone learning languages
• Diversity is our strength -- we are a vibrant international company with people from over 50 different nationalities
• We’re a learning company -- we provide opportunities for employees to level-up through our Babbel Academy
• We have a lively startup atmosphere with friendly working hours
• We offer great company benefits e.g. a high-end company bike or BVG ticket to make your commute easier

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Babbel.