Senior iOS Engineer

Description

Babbel is driven by a mission: Everyone. Learning. Languages. This means building products that help people connect and communicate across cultures. Babbel, Babbel Travel and Babbel for Business focus on using a new language in the real world, in real situations, with real people. And it works: Studies with Yale University, City University of New York and Michigan State University prove that it gets users talking with confidence. 

The key is a blend of humanity and technology. A team of linguistic experts hand-craft each of our courses, to provide content that is constantly adapted to our learners’ needs. Interactive content with videos and podcasts makes understanding a new language easy, because Babbel is for everyone. That’s why our team is as diverse as our content. From headquarters in Berlin and New York, 750 people from more than 60 nationalities represent the backgrounds, characteristics and perspectives that make all humans unique. Making a true connection with millions of paid subscribers across the globe is what makes Babbel the most profitable language learning app worldwide.

Babbel in Numbers: 

• The #1 top-grossing language learning app globally
• Millions of active paying subscribers
• More than 60,000 lessons 14 languages hand-crafted by 150+ linguists
• More than 10,000 hours of learning content
• Over 70 learning podcast episodes and over 50 hours of video learning content

We are looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join our Team in Berlin!

In your role as a Senior iOS Engineer, your mission will be to change the future of language learning while working in a challenging environment. Working together with ambitious colleagues, you will be collaborating and diving into different disciplines to broaden your knowledge in other fields of expertise as well as share your own. You will contribute to a great architecture and build the base of an easily extendable and well maintainable application.

You have:

• Experience with iOS development (5+ years)
• Worked in projects with diverse technology stack 
• Excellent understanding of mobile platforms and their unique features concerning technology and user experience
• Excellent engineering practices including design patterns, testing, and continuous integration
• Confidence in driving architectural decisions
• Proficiency in long-term maintenance of complex code bases and handling of legacy code
• Experience with REST-based APIs
• Solid understanding of lean and agile practices
• Fluency in written and spoken English

You will:

• Deliver high-quality apps from designing and iterating new features into production in a short sprint cycle
• Independently build, maintain and take on ownership of complex features sets and frameworks
• Collaborate cross-functionally to inform API design and architectural decisions
• Maintain and make use of a good overview of the overall technology stack and infrastructure
• Shape, facilitate and survey coding guidelines and quality standards
• Manage technical debt
• Independently focus on continuous learning and improvement and drive the evolution of our engineering practices

Why Babbel?

• Work within a high-performing team at Babbel.
• A steep learning-curve – personally and professionally.
• A challenging environment and a lot of responsibility to prove your skills.
• A lively startup atmosphere with friendly working hours.
• A vibrant international company with people from over 50 different nationalities.
• Great company benefits (high-end company bike, fresh fruit & drinks).

Sounds good? We are already looking forward to hearing from you! Check out our jobs page, our blog, and our techblog!

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