Senior Backend Engineer (all genders)
Babbel, Berlin
The role
Babbel Labs is rebuilding how learning content is created, stored and served, and how we decide what a learner sees next. The architecture for that is being set now, by a small number of engineers, and this role is one of them.
You will build and run the services behind it, in a serverless-first TypeScript and Node stack on AWS, owning them from the contract at their edge to their behaviour under load.
This is a senior individual-contributor role. You will design, build, ship and operate, and the seniority shows in the decisions you own rather than in a team reporting to you.
What you need
- Strong, hands-on backend engineering in TypeScript and Node as your primary working language today. We mean back-end services: not build tooling, and not the server a front-end framework happens to ship with.
- Deep, practical AWS experience in a serverless-first setting. Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and event streaming are our daily tools, and we want someone who has designed against them rather than only deployed onto them.