Senior Frontend Engineer all genders - 1 year contract

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 App Store or Play Store .

We are looking for a fulltime Senior Frontend Engineer (all genders) for Babbel Live (1 year limited contract)!

Babbel Live offers online tutoring classes taught live online with a certified language teacher and a small group of students. 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 in a diverse team 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. You will contribute to great architecture and build the base of an easily extendable and well maintainable application. As part of the Live team you will help shape the architecture of our scheduling and booking systems and to enhance their capabilities while keeping a close focus on maintainability and scalability. You will work in a diverse and fast paced environment with an uptodate tech stack based on serverless principles and event driven architecture.

You will

• Architect design and guide the future direction of core architecture of the Babbel Live frontend application for the web browser and on mobile devices
• Create user interfaces for a smooth user journey between booking and the virtual classroom
• Be part of a userfocused team who builds endtoend learning experiences
• Participate shaping our knowledgesharing culture: multiplying your impact through thoughtful teaches mentoring; improving the codebase by proposing ideas to make our code scalable maintainable and testable; and deliver highquality software
• Maintain and apply best practices of the technical stack and infrastructure

You have

• 5 years experience building scalable and maintainable frontend applications using JavaScript and TypeScript
• Profound experience with React Redux and styledcomponents
• Cando attitude to build MVPs and iterate on them in short cycles
• Testing experience on different levels: unit integration and E2E ideally using Cypress Jest and React Testing Library

Nice to have

• Experience building serverside applications using Node.JS and TypeScript ideally hosted on AWS
• Understanding of serverless architectures (e.g. AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway) and event driven architecture
• Experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB)
• Sense for good API design and knowledge of thirdparty API integrations
• Handson experience with virtual classroom systems
• Startup experience

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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