Senior Fullstack Engineer, Babbel
Monetization
Subscription-based language learning software
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Subscription-based language learning software
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create mutual understanding through language.
Role
Who you are
- A good communicator
- Comfortable with a backend heavy role with a reasonable amount of AWS and infrastructure
- Interested in solving problems for our learners
- Experience in fast Build-Measure-Learn cycles, with a solid understanding of good API design and third-party API integrations
- Proficient knowledge in JavaScript and TypeScript, along with experience in AWS, NoSQL databases, and component-based frontend frameworks (ideally React/NextJS)
- Strong skills in HTML and CSS, including preprocessors and CSS-in-JS, and testing at various levels (unit, integration, contract, and E2E)
- The ability to collaborate effectively with product and business stakeholders in a trust-based, supportive working environment
- A proactive approach to building MVPs, iterating in short cycles, and applying lean and agile practices
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with fluency in written and spoken English
Desirable
- Ideally: experience working in fintech / payments domain, even better if Stripe
- Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability in a distributed microservices environment (ideally DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Rollbar)
- Experience in setting up CICD pipelines using tools like Github actions
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally with Terraform
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer - Monetization to join our Berlin office!
- Your mission will be to change the future of language learning by ideating and validating a new space for Babbel
- You will work in a small team, close to subject matter experts and researchers to bring this mission to reality
- Deliver value iteratively by building high-quality applications and features
- Build, maintain, and take ownership of a rich ecosystem of applications and services
- Be part of a Monetization team and build end-to-end payment features
- Own architectural design and constantly propose improvements of the existing services
- Ensure that the systems you work on are reliable, efficient, and well-maintained
- Collaborate cross-functionally on feature design, architectural decisions, and assessing technical debt
- Shape our coding guidelines and quality standards
- Address and resolve operational events (bugs and incidents)
- Focus on continuous learning and improvement, and drive the evolution of our engineering practices
- Work in a small team and contribute & drive all phases of development
- Propose, implement, and validate solutions - from prototypes to potentially scaling them (or discarding them)
- Maintain a clear understanding of the overall technology stack and infrastructure
Our take
Babbel is one of the leading lights in the language eLearning sector. Its premium subscription-based online learning resources cover over a dozen predominantly European languages, at all proficiency levels. They include interactive lessons and podcasts - all developed and delivered by professional educators and linguists.
Learning languages online has become big business in recent years, and this has led to a surge of VC investment in the sector. This diversified the field of competition, tripling revenue for smaller rivals like Busuu and driving up engagement on online tutoring sites. It has ramped up pressure on incumbents like Babbel, and its better established (but pricier) competitor Rosetta Stone, to diversify their offerings.
To get there, Babbel has taken a smart cue from live tutoring sites like Preply, which also saw a surge in engagement over recent years. Babbel has launched its own live tuition offering, and additional B2B services, demonstrating a savvy use of its leading position and strong resources to keep a tight grip on its substantial market share.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2015
$22m
SERIES C
Mar 2013
$10m
SERIES B
Total funding: $33.3m
Company benefits
- 30 vacation days and flexible working hours
- BVG card or Swapfiets bike
- Jobbatical and Sabbatical options
- Many internal & external learning opportunities to choose from
- A yearly Learning & Development budget
- Visa and relocation assistance
- Full access to Babbel & Babbel Live classes
- Modern office in the heart of buzzing Berlin equipped with a family, music, faith and nap room
- Various internal communities to be part of including the Femgineers, DEI Ambassadors, Accessibility & Disability Group and more
Company HQ
Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Markus Witte
(Executive Chairman & Co-Founder)Currently a Partner at Wachstumsbegleitung, a Fellow of JoinPolitics and was Previously an Independent Board Member at Blinkist.
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