Babbel is the top-selling language learning platform globally. We are driven by our purpose of creating mutual understanding through language. Through the Babbel app, Babbel Live classes, Babbel podcasts, and Babbel for Business products, we provide learners with the most effective solutions, enabling them to communicate in real-life scenarios with real people.

The Babbel team is as diverse as our content. With headquarters in Berlin, Germany and our US office in New York, we're a team of 1,000+ people from over 80 different nationalities.

For more information about Babbel and our language learning solutions, please visit www.babbel.com or download our app from the App Store or Play Store.

We are looking for a highly motivated Junior Backend Engineer to join our office in Berlin!

Babbel is the top-selling globally acclaimed language-learning platform with a purpose: Creating mutual understanding through language. This means building an ecosystem of language learning offerings that helps people connect across cultures. 

In the midst of the mission to change the future of language learning lies Babbel’s core asset—its world-class Learning Content, adored by millions of our users! The primary mission of the Content Platform teams at Babbel is to develop tools and services that seamlessly deliver the core Learning Content to our users.

In your role as a Junior Backend Engineer, you will be able to work on a wide variety of topics including event-driven microservices architecture, content deployments, content data modeling, design and development of scalable APIs and services. Our tech stack is mainly on Ruby on Rails, Go, NodeJS, AWS and many more.

You will:

• Learn a lot and have fun!
• Be part of an experienced and diverse platform team and have the opportunity to collaborate and learn from seniors
• Build, maintain and take ownership of a rich ecosystem of BE services and tools
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the other teams to design scalable APIs, make architectural decisions and evaluate technical debt within our systems
• Write tests and do performance analysis on the systems we own
• Troubleshoot and solve bugs and incidents
• Analyze metrics, set alerts and monitoring to keep our systems healthy and performant
• Document our systems, services and APIs in a systematic way
• Bring your unique perspective and background to improve our way of working
• Focus on continuous learning and influence the evolution of our engineering practices

You are:

• You stay curious and don’t hesitate to ask questions
• You are proactive with a high ownership mindset
• You actively seek mentorship from the senior fellows and are willing to learn from more experienced engineers
• You are open to reaching outside your comfort zone by learning new technologies, languages and tools
• You are excited about the challenges and you tackle them with joy
• You have strong collaboration and communication skills

You have:

• Experience in building applications using Ruby/ GoLang or TypeScript
• Knowledge about RESTful API design principles, HTTP and related concepts
• Basic understanding of SQL, NoSQL databases (AWS DynamoDB)
• Good understanding of fundamental computer science concepts such as data structures, algorithms
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and understanding of collaborative development workflows
• Ability to write clear technical documentation for code and APIs
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Nice to have:

• Experience in building solutions using AWS services (e.g., Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, Kinesis, CloudWatch, S3)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally with Terraform
• Basic knowledge of frontend technologies (Web, Mobile)
• Basic understanding of monitoring and observability, awareness of industry-standard monitoring solutions to check system health and performance (e.g. CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Rollbar)
• Basic understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures

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!