Senior Backend Engineer - B2B (all genders)

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. 

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We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for our B2B R&D team in the heart of buzzing Berlin!

We are building the tools and services needed to further develop the role of data within B2B!  You will contribute to the design of B2B specific data architecture. This evolving platform of services and tools integrates with Babbel’s existing event-driven microservice architecture. We are evolving our data tools and increasing their availability to B2B customers. Of course, these services and tools should be easily extendable and reliable. This will all be done within a multidisciplinary team, encouraging sharing, growth and innovation.

You will:

• Design and implement the automation of our services and infrastructure
• Integrate evolving data infrastructure into services for seamless customer experience 
• Contribute to the overall monitoring of data services as the team takes greater ownership of all B2B event data
• Design and iterate on our software architecture with a focus on the relationship between that and our evolving data platform
• Deliver value iteratively by building high-quality services and tools
• Own architectural design and continuously propose improvements of the overall architecture
• Ensure that the systems the team owns are healthy, resilient, and perform well
• Collaborate cross-functionally on feature design, architectural decisions, and addressing technical debt
• Shape our coding guidelines and quality standards
• React, troubleshoot and solve bugs and resolve and reduce the occurrence of incidents
• Contribute to and shape our culture of testing, learning, and innovating
• Participate in and lead knowledge sharing sessions  - we are a learning company inside and out

You have:

• Experience in building, maintaining, and evolving scalable, resilient backend services 
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure and services (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-a-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK)
• Experience in API design and third-party API integrations
• Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, AWS DynamoDB)
• Understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architecture
• Knowledge of analyzing metrics about system health and performance (for example aided by tools such as DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Rollbar)
• Testing experience on different levels: unit, integration, etc.
• Good understanding of and experience with lean and agile practices
• A product-oriented mindset
• A strong sense of ownership of your work
• A can-do attitude to build and iterate on features
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Nice to have:

• Experience and/or interest in projects involving Data collection and reporting
• Previous use of Python and SQL, especially in integration with ETL or orchestration tools and related tooling
• Experience with Ruby or Ruby on Rails and/or TypeScript
• Experience in cross functional/multidisciplinary teams, especially one with software and data engineers

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 at the beginning of 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.

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