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. Babbel, Babbel Live and Babbel for Business 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 www.babbel.comor download the apps in the App Store or Play Store.

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

Your mission will be to change the future of language learning using NLP and AI. You will work closely with the product & engineering managers, product & learner experience designers, subject matter experts, and cross-platform engineers to bring this mission to reality for Babbel learners. 

You will:

• Design and iterate on our software architecture and deliver value iteratively by building and maintaining high-quality apps, services, and tools
• Own your work and drive what matters
• Work in a multidisciplinary AI team
• Explore innovative methods to advance on language learning contexts
• Collaborate cross-functionally on feature design, architectural decisions, and assessing technical debt
• Help shape our coding guidelines and quality standards
• Provide recommendations to improve our services and shape our culture of testing, learning, and innovation
• Participate in and potentially lead knowledge-sharing sessions  - we are a learning company inside and out
• Focus on continuous learning and improvement, and drive the evolution of our engineering practices
• Collaborate with computational linguists and machine learning engineers to bridge the gap between research and production, and transform concepts into deployable features
• Swiftly react and troubleshoot operational events

You are:

• Quick Learner: A quick learner who is comfortable with uncertainty and shines like a star when the path is clear and certain.
• An ambassador for continuous improvement:  The culture of being better today than yesterday. You are comfortable to provide and receive feedback.
• Experiment Enthusiast: Comfortable working on experiments and have a can-do attitude to build MVPs and iterate on them in short cycles, but at the same time do not compromise on having high quality standards and clean code. You know how to find a balance between addressing technical debt and ensuring delivery speed.
• Tech Explorer: You enjoy navigating NodeJS and Python backends, AWS infrastructure, and tools, and have a solid understanding of platforms like AWS lambda, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Kinesis etc.

You have:

• Experience in fast Build-Measure-Learn cycles
• 4+ years of experience building, maintaining and evolving scalable, resilient backend services and apps in (TypeScript || Node.js) and/or Python
• Strong skills in API design, data modeling, and applying design patterns to  improve code
• 2+ years of experience with AWS
• Knowledge of serverless and event-driven architectures (e.g. AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS Kinesis) and NoSQL databases (e.g. AWS DynamoDB)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and infrastructure automation, ideally with Terraform
• Knowledge to analyze metrics related to system health and performance (CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Rollbar)
• Automated testing experience on different levels: unit, integration, contract, and E2E
• Strong interest in contributing to a product development as demonstrated by your positive approach to gathering requirements, building and iterating on features, and continuously reviewing and innovating
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve issues efficiently

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with natural language processing or speech recognition
• Experience with setting up infrastructure in AWS via Terraform 
• AWS SageMaker experience
• Knowledge of component-based frontend frameworks, ideally React
• Experience in a medium/large organization and startup environment.

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 our jobs page, our blog andour techblogto get an impression about #lifeatbabbel!