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Engineering Manager

Creata il 30-10-2017
Location Berlin

Descrizione

With Babbel anyone can learn a language. 


Whether on the go, in the subway or at home on the sofa, Babbel supports those who enjoy learning outside of work or school. Since its founding in 2007, the company has grown to become the market leader in app-based language learning. In total, Babbel offers 14 learning languages, from English to Indonesian. Professional courses are readily available via the Babbel website as well as on your smartphone or tablet. At Babbel, more than 500 team members from over 42 different countries work hard to set standards for creating a new learning experience.


We are looking for an Engineering Manager (Technology and Tools) to start immediately in our office in Berlin, Germany!


Our infrastructure teams provide the core product platform as well as core AWS-based infrastructure to all other feature teams within Babbel. In your role as Engineering Manager, your mission will be to work with the infrastructure team to prepare and deliver a wide range of technical initiatives as well as manage the daily business. In addition, you will help drive the evolution of the infrastructure itself collaborating with a variety of teams and stakeholders.


You will:


  • Drive & develop your domain practice (methodology, quality, staff skill sets & technology).
  • Manage your team in line with company guidelines and your manager’s directions.
  • Allocate responsibilities, tasks & priorities among your team
  • Contribute to the company’s overall strategy and provide clear objectives to your team.
  • Represent the company towards your team; provide communication up & down your reporting line.
  • Own responsibility for the performance of your team.
  • Scale your team up & down according to requirements; make hiring decisions, manage out leavers.
  • Onboard & train new members of your team; manage strength & weaknesses of your team.
  • Lead, motivate & develop your staff.
  • Drive technical product platform evolution.
  • Enable and collaborate with other teams to get their projects running.

You have: 


  • Operational experience working with teams, in delegation and prioritization
  • Excellent people skills, ability to coach, experience in conflict resolution
  • Proven experience in Ruby and of core AWS services and features
  • Working knowledge of running serverless applications and Lambda functions
  • Drive for simple and sustainable solutions
  • Good communication skills verbal, written
  • Pragmatic drive with action bias and can-do attitude
  • Experience in lean and agile methodologies and with distributed system architectures (REST APIs)
  • Experience in driving cross-platform projects (mobile, web, backend)

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 42 different nationalities.
  • Great company benefits (high-end company bike, fresh fruit & drinks).

Sounds good? We are already looking forward hearing from you! Check out also our jobs page, our blog, and our tech blog to get an impression about #lifeatbabbel!

Benefit

Babbel bike

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free coffee, drinks & fruits

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german classes

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