Senior Backend Engineer - Platform all genders

Babbel is the topselling language learning platform globally. We are driven by our purpose of creating mutual understanding through language. Through the classes and products we provide learners with the most effective solutions enabling them to communicate in reallife 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 were a team of 1000 people from over 80 different nationalities.

For more information about Babbel and our language learning solutions please visit or download our app from the or .

We** **are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for our Infrastructure team in Berlin!

You will:

• Work on maintaining and developing a variety of new businesscritical microservices at the intersection of platform and infrastructure underlying Babbels applications
• Have the opportunity to engineer and work on a highavailable and scalable cloudnative environment
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to outline architectural decisions and technical specifications
• Drive the initiative of modernizing existing platform services to ensure they are prepared to meet scaling reliability and security business requirements
• Bringing along your previous experience you will participate in team 24/7 oncall rotation ensuring that our business critical platform services are available at all times

You have:

• Strong engineering and architecture experience and extensive knowledge of distributed systems and eventdriven architecture in a cloudnative environment.
• Solid programming and architectural skills in our core languages node.js and Ruby
• Past strong handson experience with AWS services (e.g. Lambda ECS/Fargate Kinesis DynamoDB RDS/Aurora)
• Practical experience with infrastructureascode and infrastructure automation with Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD alerting and monitoring solutions
• In addition to being experienced with MySQL or PostgreSQL you also have worked with DynamoDB
• Willingness to learn and openness to feedback
• You thrive collaborating and mentoring team members while sharing practical knowledge and trends.

Some perks of becoming a Babbelonian:

• Enjoy 30 vacation days and the chance to take a 3month 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 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.

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