Head of Data Engineering

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

• Leading in the team of data engineers
• Be responsible for data quality and build expertise on ETL and data modeling
• Participating and communicating with colleagues from Data Science, Finance, Product and Marketing  
• Managing SLAs
• Working with infrastructure team for solving problems
• Reviewing codes and coaching your team

Your qualification

• 7+ years of experience with data
• Manage small and medium international teams
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Data architecture, data modeling, schema design
• Project management and people management skills
• AWS experince (EMR, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis)
• Engineering background 

Will be a plus

• Experience with Python, Ruby, Scala, JS or Go 
• Experience with medium to large sized cloud-based data systems 

What we offer

• The potential to change the way of learning for millions of users worldwide
• A lively startup atmosphere with friendly working hours in a vibrant international team from over 36 different nationalities
• Excellent working conditions with a location in the heart of the Berlin scene and great company benefits (company bike, fresh fruits & drinks, hackathons, music room etc.)
• Responsibility from day one and professional and personal growth and have the freedom to publish open source projects (see on github)
• Participate in hack days, technology brown-bags

Additional details

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