Frontend Engineer (all genders)

We are looking for a Frontend Engineer to start in our office in Berlin Germany!

In your role as a Frontend Engineer your mission will be to change the future of language learning while working in a flexible and stimulating environment. Working together with motivated colleagues you will be collaborating and diving into different disciplines to broaden your knowledge in other fields of expertise as well as share your own.

We are at the heart of Babbel developing the learning content architecture and the tools our editors use to create our learning experiences! Topics include event-driven microservice architecture content modeling the content editing frontend and CMS customization. Primary stack: JavaScript (some TypeScript) and React.

This is a fixed-term position with an anticipated duration of 1 year.

You will:

• Learn a lot!
• Design and iterate on our software architecture
• Own your work and drive what matters
• Build new services and maintain old ones
• Work closely with our learning content editors to make their vision a reality
• Provide both insight and wisdom from your unique perspective and background
• Contribute to our culture of testing learning and innovating

You have:

• Experience in building frontend applications with JavaScript
• Strong sense for good api design
• Openness to learn new things and reach outside your comfort zone
• Extensive testing experience
• Experience tracking system health and performance
• A product-oriented mindset
• A strong sense of ownership of your work
• A can-do attitude to build and iterate on features
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Nice to have:

• Experience with Ruby & Rails
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience with event-driven distributed architecture
• Experience with AWS services (e.g. Lambda Kinesis)

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
• 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 youd 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.