Role Overview:  Principal

Mission

Shapes software engineering @ Babbel through Architectural Leadership, Cultural Ambassadorship, Thought Leadership, Cross-functional Expertise, and Domain Expertise.

Impact
  • Leads major architectural changes yielding sweeping improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems. Provides department-wide architectural oversight.
  • Promotes engineering culture internally and externally. Fosters agile, product, and data-driven mindsets. Inspires, develops, and connects the dots for engineers across multiple teams.
  • Leads subject-matter chapters related to their expertise. Evangelizes good practices both in and outside of the team.
  • Influences organization-wide decisions by providing Engineering input and collaborating with other relevant functions across the entire business.
  • Shapes the product development by applying knowledge about our customers, demonstrating empathy with them, and leveraging their deep understanding of technology.

Requirements

Engineering Hard Skills

  • Programming

  • Software Architecture

  • Systems Architecture

  • Testing

  • Observability & Monitoring

  • Documentation

  • Agile & Lean Methodologies

  • Domain-Based Skill Diversification


proficient in allexpert in at least 3

Babbel-wide soft skills

  • Decision (taking)

  • Prioritization

  • Ownership

  • Effective Communication

  • Objective Setting

  • Feedback

  • Cooperative collaboration


proficient in allexpert in at least 3

Engineering-specific soft skills

  • Knowledge Sharing

  • Problem solving

  • Customer centricity


proficient in allexpert in at least 1