Senior Backend Engineers Ruby on Rails or NodeJS

Description

Babbel is the world’s top-grossing and most effective language-learning app. No small feat, and no small challenge. In a moment rife with talk of walls, we’re building bridges — making the language-learning journey as exciting and empowering as possible, helping people forge new connections and participate in worlds bigger than their own.

Babbel is for everyone, not some niche or elite strata of learners. Everyone. That means reflecting the dynamism and diversity of our users, as much as possible, in the production of Babbel. We currently have 750 people from more than 50 nationalities working in our Berlin and New York offices. A culture of difference and dignity is critical to how we’ve connected with millions of users in every hemisphere. 

We are looking for Senior Backend Engineers to start immediately in our office in Berlin, Germany!

Does this describe you?:

• I have experience building scalable systems and applications using languages like Ruby, Node.JS, or Go
• I have designed and architected extensible software systems
• I know how to test software on different levels: unit, integration, contract, and E2E
• I know how to work on linux-based systems
• I am able to analyse metrics about system health and performance
• I am able to communicate risk and technical challenges to non-technical people
• I enjoy learning and improving myself
• I understand and utilise lean and agile practices
• I have good communication and interpersonal skills
• I enjoy and have experience mentoring engineers
• I am fluent in written and spoken English

Nice to have:

• Experience in using cloud services (ideally AWS)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB)

What you can be doing at Babbel?:

• Delivering value iteratively by building high-quality applications and features
• Building, maintaining, and taking ownership of a rich ecosystem of applications and services
• Ensuring the systems your team owns are healthy, resilient, and perform well
• Collaborating cross-functionally on feature design, architectural decisions, and assessing technical debt
• Working with cutting-edge tools and services like Terraform to shape our AWS infrastructure or DataDog to visualise our metrics
• Shaping our coding guidelines and quality standards

Come on join us!

Make a real impact in the world in a meaningful way at a company that values its employees.

• We’re driven by a bold challenge: Everyone learning languages
• Diversity is our strength - we are a vibrant international company with people from over 50 different nationalities
• We’re a learning company - we provide opportunities for employees to level-up through our Babbel Academy
• We have a lively startup atmosphere with friendly working hours
• We offer great company benefits e.g. 30 days holidays, a high-end company bike or BVG ticket, a budget for external training, fresh fruit & drinks

Sounds good? We are already looking forward to hearing from you! Check out our jobs page, our blog, and our techblog for a fuller picture of #lifeatbabbel!

Questions about a career at Babbel? Contact us!