We are looking for an Engineering Manager, Mobile Platform (full-time) to join our Platform team in Berlin.
As Engineering Manager for the Mobile Platform team, you will be pivotal in shaping the technical foundation that powers Babbel’s mobile experiences. This team is at the core of ensuring that Babbel's iOS and Android applications are reliable, scalable, and equipped with the tools and frameworks that enable product teams to deliver best-in-class learning experiences.
You will lead and mentor a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture of trust, inclusivity, and innovation. This is a hands-off management role, but your deep technical understanding of mobile platforms will allow you to provide guidance, challenge assumptions, and ensure sound technical decisions are made. You will act as a connector, facilitating collaboration between product teams and platform engineering to ensure the mobile platform evolves in line with business needs and technological advances.
Success in this role means creating a platform that empowers Babbel’s mobile product teams to move faster, with greater confidence, and with a focus on delivering value to millions of learners worldwide.
You will:
- Empower and guide your team, fostering a culture of trust, inclusion, and continuous improvement
- Collaborate on defining and aligning the team’s vision with Babbel’s strategic goals
- Drive the development and maintenance of a scalable, reliable, and secure mobile platform infrastructure
- Ensure high-quality engineering practices through mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and process improvements
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions
- Promote a culture of innovation by empowering your team to experiment and learn from one another while staying informed about industry trends to keep Babbel at the forefront of the mobile ecosystem
You have:
- 5+ years of experience in mobile application development, with at least 1/2 years in a leadership or management role. Proven track record of managing mobile teams and delivering high-impact mobile applications at scale
- Hands-on Mobile Engineering Expertise with a strong background in mobile engineering & deep expertise in building iOS (Swift/Objective-C) and Android (Java/Kotlin) applications. Experience with cross-platform frameworks (e.g., Flutter, React Native) is a plus
- Experience operating performant mobile apps in production environments, including app store management and instrumentation
- Experience building scalable mobile architectures and working with cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines
- An inclusive leadership approach that emphasizes collaboration, open communication, and a commitment to both personal and professional development
- Experience advocating for best practices in testing and driving automation initiatives to ensure high-quality, efficient processes
- Solid communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
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
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