Senior Full Stack 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 high-quality apps from designing and iterating new features
• Build, maintain, and take ownership of a rich ecosystem of applications, software modules and services
• Collaborate cross-functionally on API design, architectural decisions
• Maintain and make use of a good overview of the overall technology stack and infrastructure
• Shape our coding guidelines and quality standards
• Understand and own the system performance and health
• React, troubleshoot and solve operational events (incidents and bugs)
• Independently focus on continuous learning and improvement of our engineering practices

Your qualification

• Experience in building scalable systems and applications using Ruby, Node.js, or Go
• Experience with at least one component-based front end framework like React
• Designed and architected extensible software systems before
• Knowledge of software testing on different levels: unit, integration, contract and E2E
• Ability to analyze metrics about system health and performance
• Ability to communicate risk and technical problems to non-technical people
• You are a constant learner and are particularly passionate about improving yourself while mentoring others to do the same
• Understanding of lean and agile practices
• You have good communication and interpersonal skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Will be a plus

• Cloud services (ideally AWS)
• NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB)
• Any infrastructure as code tool (ideally Terraform)
• Basic knowledge of statistics necessary to set up and understand metrics

What we offer

• Work on something that truly matters and influence on lives of millions
• A startup mentality with ownership and trust from day one
• Learn and grow with the Babbel Academy, great trainings, and challenging projects
• 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
• Offices in the heart of buzzing Berlin
• 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.