We are looking for an Engineering Manager, Data Engineering to join us in Berlin!
In your role as an Engineering Manager, Data Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our data-driven educational products. Your work will directly contribute to the learning journey of millions of users worldwide. You will take good care of the Learner and Content technical domain and corresponding engineering team.
At Babbel, our Data Engineering team is focused on creating simple yet powerful systems that process streaming and batch data to power the user's app experience and drive insightful analytics. You will specialize in handling streaming data from our apps, as well as ETL pipelines and data models, that integrate with our core product features. These services are crucial for understanding how users interact with our app, tracking time spent, and counting activities as they happen.
You will:
- Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team to develop high-quality data pipelines and infrastructure for personalization features
- Foster both team growth and individual development, ensuring a culture of continuous improvement
- Collaborate with product managers to drive technical discovery and delivery of innovative features and microservices
- Ensure the integrity, compliance, and security of the team's outputs by implementing best engineering practices
- Mentor team members on communication and engineering aspects, identify and address gaps in team capabilities and performance
- Optimize agile methodologies and engineering excellence to enhance development efficiency and team dynamics
- Build and nurture a diverse and inclusive team environment, valuing every member's contribution
You have:
- 5+ years software development experience usingPython, SQL and event event streaming technologies as well as cloud services in a production environment
- 2+ years of experience in managing a team with a focus on mentoring and tech leadership
- Experience in test automation and building a data observability and quality control solutions
- Proficiency in agile methodologies, adapting processes to suit project needs and team dynamics
- Skill in effective communication and collaboration across teams and disciplines
- Commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion within your team
- Eagerness for continuous learning, staying updated with industry trends and exploring new tools and techniques
Nice to Have:
- Hands-on experience in building data-intensive event driven microservices using AWS 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 & 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 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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What We Do
Babbel is the top-selling language learning platform.
Driven by our purpose – to create mutual understanding through language – we build products that help people connect and communicate across cultures. Through self-study lessons with Babbel, instructor-led live classes with Babbel Live, Babbel for Business, our own podcast series, and our magazine, our users can focus on using a new language in real situations with real people. And it works: studies with Yale University, City University of New York, and Michigan State University prove that Babbel gets users to speak with confidence.
The key is a blend of humanity and technology. More than 60,000 lessons in 15 languages are hand-crafted by more than 200 linguists, and user behaviour is constantly analysed to shape and improve the learner experience.
The Babbel team is as diverse as our content. Based in Berlin, Germany, and New York, USA, 1,000+ Babbelonians from over 80 nationalities represent the diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and perspectives that make each person unique. Building genuine connections with our users is what sets Babbel apart, making it the world's leading language-learning platform with more than 16 million subscriptions sold.
Founded in 2007 as the pioneering online language learning platform, we've grown steadily over the years. In 2023, Babbel was honoured with a place on Fast Company's list of the World's Most Innovative Companies, ranking 4th in the Education category
