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.

Position

• Deliver value iteratively by building high-quality apps and features
• Build, maintain, and own a rich ecosystem of applications and services
• Ensure the systems are healthy, resilient, and perform well
• Collaborating cross-functionally on feature design, architectural decisions, and assessing technical debt
• Work with cutting-edge tools and services to shape our AWS infrastructure (Terraform) and to visualize our metrics (DataDog)
• Shape our coding guidelines and quality standards

Your qualification

• Experience in building scalable systems and applications using Ruby, Node.js, or Go
• Knowledge of software testing on different levels: unit, integration, contract and E2E
• Work on linux-based systems experience
• Ability to analyze metrics about system health and performance
• You are passionate about learning and improving yourself
• Understanding of lean and agile practices
• You have good communication and interpersonal skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English

What we offer

• Work on something that truly matters and influence the lives of millions
• Learn and grow with the Babbel Academy, great trainings, and challenging projects
• A startup mentality with ownership and trust from day one
• A culture that treats individual differences as strength
• Meet and work with colleagues at hackdays, brownbag talks, and parties
• 30 vacation days, flexible hours, a company bike, a metro ticket and a family room
• Regular social events with friendly and diverse Babbelonians
• Office in the heart of buzzing Berlin

Additional details

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