Engineering Manager, Babbel

• 3+ years of experience in successfully applying NLP and ML techniques to real-world problems
• 3+ years of experience managing high-performing engineering and/or applied research teams
• Experience with serverless and event-driven architectures (e.g. AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS Kinesis)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, AWS DynamoDB)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience working in a cross-functional team
• Hands-on experience with relevant technologies and programming languages, such as Python, Javascript, OpenAI
• A proven understanding of AI/ML, including ML frameworks, public cloud and commercial AI/ML solutions
• A passion for staying up to date with the latest trends and technologies in AI/ML
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Enjoying to work on user-facing products and language learning is close to your heart
• Comfortable working on experiments and have a can-do attitude to build MVPs and iterate on them in short cycles
• Pragmatic and can establish a good balance between addressing technical debt and ensuring delivery speed
• Having a track record of shipping ML-based products and are willing to delve into the codebase when necessary
• Possessing excellent communication, planning, and organizational skills
• Experienced growing engineers with diverse skill sets, ranging from full-stack developers to data scientist

Desirable

• Engineering Managers at Babbel have technical skills, can provide leadership for their teams and develop their members
• Engineering teams work across the company to build better mobile and web experiences for learners, growing the B2B area, infrastructure, content, and data platforms
• As part of our mission to create the future of language learning, you will work closely with the product manager, product designers, subject matter experts, and cross-platform engineers to bring this mission to reality for Babbel learners
• Work in a multidisciplinary team to craft the technical and product vision for learning experiences leveraging dynamic content generation
• Work with cross-functional partners to plan and execute team strategies to advance the company OKRs
• Manage engineers with different specialisations and drive the evolution of our engineering practices
• Manage dependencies and expectations, build trust with all stakeholders, and deliver on commitments
• Own problems, continuously learn and improve, overcome obstacles and enhance the product for our learners