Babbel

Technology, Information and Internet

501-1000

Germany

Babbel is the world’s first and most sold online language learning platform, driven by the purpose to create mutual understanding through language. This means building an ecosystem of language learning offerings that helps people connect across cultures. ,  and  provide users with the most effective solution to be able to communicate with real people, in real situations. Babbel’s team consists of 750 Babbelonians representing over 65 different nationalities working in Berlin and New York.

For more information, visit or download the apps in the  or .

We are looking for a **Senior Fullstack Engineer** to join our office in Berlin!

Your mission will be to change the future of language learning by ideating and validating a new space for Babbel. You will work in a small team, close to subject matter experts and researchers to bring this mission to reality.

## You will:

* Deliver value iteratively by building high-quality applications and features
* Build, maintain, and take ownership of a rich ecosystem of applications and services
* Be part of a Growth team and build end-to-end customer features
* Own architectural design and constantly propose improvements of the existing services
* Ensure that the systems you own are healthy, resilient, and perform well
* Collaborate cross-functionally on feature design, architectural decisions, and assessing technical debt
* Shape our coding guidelines and quality standards
* React, troubleshoot and solve operational events (bugs and incidents)
* Focus on continuous learning and improvement and drive the evolution of our engineering practices
* Work in a small team and contribute & drive all phases of development
* Propose, implement and validate solutions - from prototypes to potentially scaling them (or discarding them)
* Maintain and make use of a good overview of the overall technology stack and infrastructure

## You are:

* A good communicator
* Comfortable with a frontend heavy role with reasonable amount of AWS and infrastructure
* Interested in solving problems for our learners
* Comfortable working on experiments and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)

## You have:

* Experience in fast Build-Measure-Learn cycles
* Strong sense for good API design and third-party API integrations
* Proficient knowledge in JavaScript, Typescript, GraphQL, HTML, CSS (incl. preprocessors and CSS in JS)
* Experience in using AWS, NoSQL databases
* Knowledge in component-based frontend frameworks, ideally React
* Testing experience on different levels: unit, integration, contract, and E2E
* Willingness to collaborate with product and business stakeholders in a high trust working environment
* A can-do attitude to build MVPs and iterate on them in short cycles
* Good understanding of lean and agile practices
* Good communication and interpersonal skills
* Fluency in written and spoken English

## Nice to have:

* Experience with Contentful
* Knowledge of analyzing metrics about system health and performance (ideally DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Rollbar)
* Experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally with Terraform
* Experience with responsive design and working with design teams

## Some perks of becoming a Babbelonian:

* Enjoy 30 vacation days and the chance to take a 3-month Sabbatical. Plus family and life situation counseling.
* Decide how, when and from where you want to work with our flexible working hours and remote friendly options as Jobbatical (up to 3 months inside the EU) or work from our fully equipped office with nap, faith and family rooms.
* Learn and grow with the internal learning opportunities, and use a yearly learning & development budget for external training. Learn languages with Babbel for free with your full access to Babbel & Babbel Live classes.
* Take advantage of your mobility benefits options and a discounted Urban Sports Club membership.
* Be part of our employee communities (such as Femgineers, DE&I Ambassadors and LGBTQIA groups), attend cultural and regular social events.

**_Diversity at Babbel_**

_As part of our ongoing journey towards building a diverse, equitable and inclusive company, we welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in tech. We are a learning company, inside and out, and we encourage you to apply even if you do not fit all the technical requirements - all candidates are assessed based on skills, qualifications and on our business needs. Please state your pronouns in your application, and let us know if you’d like to be addressed by a name other than the one appearing on your official documents. If you have a disability or special need, feel welcome to inform us, so that we can provide you with the proper assistance in the application process._

_Sounds good? We are already looking forward to hearing from you! Check out also_ _,_ _and_ _to get an impression about_ **_!_**

Employee

<p>Babbel is the world’s first and most sold online language learning platform, driven by the purpose to create mutual understanding through language. This means building an ecosystem of language learning offerings that helps people connect across cultures. ,  and  provide users with the most effective solution to be able to communicate with real people, in real situations. Babbel’s team consists of 750 Babbelonians representing over 65 different nationalities working in Berlin and New York.</p>
<p>For more information, visit or download the apps in the  or .</p>
<p>We are looking for a <strong>Senior Fullstack Engineer</strong> to join our office in Berlin!</p>
<p>Your mission will be to change the future of language learning by ideating and validating a new space for Babbel. You will work in a small team, close to subject matter experts and researchers to bring this mission to reality.</p>
<h2 id="you-will">You will:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Deliver value iteratively by building high-quality applications and features</li>
<li>Build, maintain, and take ownership of a rich ecosystem of applications and services</li>
<li>Be part of a Growth team and build end-to-end customer features</li>
<li>Own architectural design and constantly propose improvements of the existing services</li>
<li>Ensure that the systems you own are healthy, resilient, and perform well</li>
<li>Collaborate cross-functionally on feature design, architectural decisions, and assessing technical debt</li>
<li>Shape our coding guidelines and quality standards</li>
<li>React, troubleshoot and solve operational events (bugs and incidents)</li>
<li>Focus on continuous learning and improvement and drive the evolution of our engineering practices</li>
<li>Work in a small team and contribute &amp; drive all phases of development</li>
<li>Propose, implement and validate solutions - from prototypes to potentially scaling them (or discarding them)</li>
<li>Maintain and make use of a good overview of the overall technology stack and infrastructure</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="you-are">You are:</h2>
<ul>
<li>A good communicator</li>
<li>Comfortable with a frontend heavy role with reasonable amount of AWS and infrastructure</li>
<li>Interested in solving problems for our learners</li>
<li>Comfortable working on experiments and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="you-have">You have:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Experience in fast Build-Measure-Learn cycles</li>
<li>Strong sense for good API design and third-party API integrations</li>
<li>Proficient knowledge in JavaScript, Typescript, GraphQL, HTML, CSS (incl. preprocessors and CSS in JS)</li>
<li>Experience in using AWS, NoSQL databases</li>
<li>Knowledge in component-based frontend frameworks, ideally React</li>
<li>Testing experience on different levels: unit, integration, contract, and E2E</li>
<li>Willingness to collaborate with product and business stakeholders in a high trust working environment</li>
<li>A can-do attitude to build MVPs and iterate on them in short cycles</li>
<li>Good understanding of lean and agile practices</li>
<li>Good communication and interpersonal skills</li>
<li>Fluency in written and spoken English</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="nice-to-have">Nice to have:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Experience with Contentful</li>
<li>Knowledge of analyzing metrics about system health and performance (ideally DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Rollbar)</li>
<li>Experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally with Terraform</li>
<li>Experience with responsive design and working with design teams</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="some-perks-of-becoming-a-babbelonian">Some perks of becoming a Babbelonian:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Enjoy 30 vacation days and the chance to take a 3-month Sabbatical. Plus family and life situation counseling.</li>
<li>Decide how, when and from where you want to work with our flexible working hours and remote friendly options as Jobbatical (up to 3 months inside the EU) or work from our fully equipped office with nap, faith and family rooms.</li>
<li>Learn and grow with the internal learning opportunities, and use a yearly learning &amp; development budget for external training. Learn languages with Babbel for free with your full access to Babbel &amp; Babbel Live classes.</li>
<li>Take advantage of your mobility benefits options and a discounted Urban Sports Club membership.</li>
<li>Be part of our employee communities (such as Femgineers, DE&amp;I Ambassadors and LGBTQIA groups), attend cultural and regular social events.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><em>Diversity at Babbel</em></strong></p>
<p><em>As part of our ongoing journey towards building a diverse, equitable and inclusive company, we welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in tech. We are a learning company, inside and out, and we encourage you to apply even if you do not fit all the technical requirements - all candidates are assessed based on skills, qualifications and on our business needs. Please state your pronouns in your application, and let us know if you’d like to be addressed by a name other than the one appearing on your official documents. If you have a disability or special need, feel welcome to inform us, so that we can provide you with the proper assistance in the application process.</em></p>
<p><em>Sounds good? We are already looking forward to hearing from you! Check out also</em> <em>,</em> <em>and</em> <em>to get an impression about</em> <strong><em>!</em></strong></p>


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