Professional Backend Engineer (all genders)

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We are looking for a full-time Backend Engineer for Babbel B2B!

Babbel offers online tutoring classes, taught live online, with a certified language teacher and a small group of students. In your role as a Backend Engineer, your mission will be to change the future of language learning. Working in a diverse team as part of the B2B organisation, you will contribute to shaping the architecture of our scheduling and booking systems and to enhancing their capabilities while keeping a close focus on maintainability and scalability. You will work on an up-to-date tech stack based on serverless principles and event driven architecture.

You will develop backend solutions for

• a smooth user journey between booking and the virtual classroom
• Backoffice interfaces for scheduling of classes and managing a large pool of teachers
• all kinds of notifications pre, during and post class

Requirements

• 3+ years experience building scalable systems and applications using Node.JS and TypeScript ideally hosted on AWS
• 1+ years of experience building serverless architectures, preferably with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway
• Strong understanding of Event Driven Architecture
• Experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB)
• Strong sense for good API design and knowledge of third-party API integrations
• Knowledge of analyzing metrics about system health and performance (CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Rollbar)
• Can-do attitude to build MVPs and iterate on them in short cycles
• Testing experience on different levels: unit, integration, contract, and E2E
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and infrastructure automation, specifically with Terraform
• Willingness and ability to quickly learn and contribute to other backend technologies and frameworks (e.g., Ruby on Rails) as needed

Nice to have

• Knowledge of component-based frontend frameworks, ideally React
• Experience with
  • cross-browser development
  • building scheduling systems
  • Zoom API
  • Ruby on Rails
• Hands-on experience with virtual classroom systems
• Startup experience

Please note that our company’s operating language is English, so you will need to be able to work in English.

Some perks of becoming a Babbelonian:

• Enjoy 30 vacation days. Plus family and life situation counseling.
• Set up the right schedule for you with flexible working hours and enjoy Jobbatical (up to 3 months working inside the EU and the UK), plus 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.
• Take advantage of your mobility benefits options and a discounted Urban Sports Club membership.
• Be part of our DE&I Community Networks (such as FLINTA in Tech, and Queer Collective), 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.

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