Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

Joining Busuu means being part of one of the top EdTech companies in the world, a multiple award-winner recognised for its innovation and impact in language learning.

Busuu’s vision is to empower people through languages. We are the world’s largest online community for language learning, with 120+ million registered users. We make learning a language easy by combining AI-powered courses with feedback from our global community of native speakers and lesson content designed for real life.

Busuu is part of the global Chegg family. Chegg is the leading student-first connected learning platform and a NYSE listed company.

What does a Senior Backend Engineer do at Busuu?

As a Senior Backend Engineer you will be working on a new and exciting initiative at Busuu. You will work on features from ideation, implementation, and release collaborating with all departments of the company. Once released to users your work will be seen by millions and from there you will measure, evaluate, and evolve what you just released. 

You will work on designing and implementing APIs, optimising database queries, and ensuring our backend architecture is robust and maintainable. You will be working with Node.js (TypeScript) in a distributed system environment. Our backend services follow best coding standards and design patterns, including hexagonal architecture and Domain-Driven Design (with an event-driven architecture).

You will ship often (daily) without sacrificing the quality of code. You’ll feel confident about said quality through extensive use of automated testing. You’ll collaborate extensively with the other engineers on the team. We are a team of experienced developers that rely heavily on data to make decisions about where to go next. We strive to write simple and readable code while still developing highly scalable systems.

What makes a great Senior Backend Engineer at Busuu?

• Ability to communicate effectively in English

• Expert knowledge and experience in object-oriented programming (specific knowledge in PHP or Node.js is a plus)

• Proficient in data modelling and performance optimisation using relational databases

• Good understanding of API design (RESTful or gRPC), SOLID principles, and queuing systems (event-driven architecture is a plus)

• Experience with testing methodologies

• Experience in defining the whole development process, from initial design to deployment and support

• Familiarity with agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, or XP

• A strong desire to learn and grow

At Busuu we want to ensure that you have access to some great benefits:

• Our centrally located offices are well-equipped with free breakfast, plenty of snacks, fresh fruit, and free dinner of your choice if you need to stay late

• Busuu offers a great Private Health Insurance scheme

• There is a personal training budget just for you, so you can learn more in your field to ensure our employees can continuously grow and progress in their careers

• We like to support our teams with their work-life balance so we offer flexible working hours and a hybrid model of working

• We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave

• Staying connected as a team is very important to us, so we have lots of social activities for you to join such as team lunches, Friday socials, quarterly team, and company events

What happens next​

We aim to have a simple and speedy hiring process and we want to make sure that we are right for you as much as the other way around.

• CV application review - We will review it as quickly as possible

• Let’s chat - Quick chat with our recruiter about your experience and the role

• Culture fit interview - On-site or video call with the Engineering Manager

• Technical questions - Technical call with the team

• Technical test - We will send you a technical test to complete in your time

• Coding review - Technical interview and task review with the team

Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. We pride ourselves on embracing our differences, whether they're cultural, racial, religious, or otherwise. This means each one of us comes to work knowing that we have a voice – and a safe, judgement-free zone to speak freely.

If you like the sound of that, join us. We'd love to hear what you have to say.