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# Engineering Manager - Data Platform (m/f/d) at Babbel

- **Company:** Babbel
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/babbel/ed8a567a-9ea2-46f8-8ae3-0f8b8177b5db

## Job description

## Your Learning Journey in This Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Babbel’s Data Platform team. The team owns the data infrastructure, pipelines and platform capabilities that support analytics, data science, product teams and engineering across the company. This is a hands-on role. You will be responsible for both team health and delivery outcomes, creating an environment where engineers can do their best work while delivering reliable, scalable and well-governed data products. You will work closely with Data, Analytics, Product and Engineering leaders to turn strategy into sustainable execution.

## How You’ll Make an Impact

- Lead, coach and grow a data engineering team responsible for Babbel’s data platform and infrastructure.
- Own reliable delivery and operational excellence across the platform, including quality, observability, SLAs/SLOs, on-call and incident management.
- Partner with Analytics, Product, Data Science and Engineering teams to prioritise and deliver platform capabilities that make trustworthy data easy to discover, access and use.
- Drive an architecture that supports governed AI and agent workloads at scale, with appropriate access controls, lineage, auditability and cost guardrails built in.
- Establish clear ownership, strong engineering practices and a predictable delivery cadence while continuously improving platform performance, cost and sustainability.

## Your Skills and Qualifications

We think you’ll need the following experience to succeed in the role:

- Experience managing and developing data engineers, ideally in a data platform, infrastructure or internal-product context.
- A strong track record of delivering and operating reliable production systems, including data pipelines, modelling, schema evolution, testing, CI/CD, monitoring and incident management.
- Experience working with Product, Analytics, Data Science and Engineering stakeholders in cross-functional teams, balancing delivery, quality, cost and sustainability.

In addition, here are the skills and capabilities we’re looking for:

- Technical leadership: Strong understanding of modern data platform architecture, including cloud infrastructure, data processing, streaming, orchestration and analytics tools. Experience with technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Databricks, Kinesis or similar, dbt and Airflow is relevant.
- Data governance and responsible AI use: Practical understanding of access controls, IAM, least-privilege patterns, encryption, lineage, audit logging and governance for AI or agent workloads.
- People leadership and team development: Creates a healthy, collaborative and accountable team culture through clear expectations, constructive feedback, coaching and career development.
- Product and delivery leadership: Treats the data platform as a product for internal customers, communicates clearly, manages trade-offs and makes sound build-versus-buy, vendor, cost and reliability decisions.

Ways of working You will work across Data, Analytics, Product and Engineering, building trusted relationships with internal customers and technical stakeholders. The role requires both technical depth and strong people leadership, together with the ability to create clarity, resolve ownership gaps and help teams deliver sustainably.

This role requires strong proficiency in English. Please note that our company’s operating language is English, so you will need to be able to work in English. 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 and UK) 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 FLINTA, 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.

## About Babbel

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Babbel is a subscription-based language learning platform that offers self-paced lessons, live classes, and AI-powered conversation practice across 14 languages.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany (with an office in New York City, USA)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Thomas Holl, Markus Witte, Lorenz Heine, Toine Diepstraten

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: E-Learning / Language Education
- **Target customers**: B2C (individual learners) and B2B (Babbel for Business for corporate training)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Creating mutual understanding through language”

## Products & Services
- **[Babbel App](https://www.babbel.com/)**: Award-winning self-study app with over 60,000 lessons in 14 languages. Includes speech recognition, interactive dialogues, and progress tracking.
- **[Babbel Live](https://www.babbel.com/live)**: Instructor-led live group classes for real-time conversation practice.
- **[Babbel Speak](https://www.babbel.com/speak)**: AI-powered conversation partner that guides users through realistic scenarios without pressure.
- **[Babbel for Business](https://www.babbel.com/business)**: Corporate language training solution for teams and enterprises.
- **[Babbel Podcasts & Magazine](https://www.babbel.com/magazine)**: Free cultural and language‑learning content, including podcasts and articles.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Over 25 million subscriptions sold; 1,299 total employees (per Built In)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in sources consulted
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named to GSV 150 list of most transformational digital learning companies (2025)
  - Fast Company’s Most Innovative Language Learning Company (2023)
  - 92% of users improved proficiency in 2 months (internal study)
  - Proven effectiveness studies with Yale University, City University of New York, and Michigan State University
  - Employee base of 1,000+ representing 80+ nationalities

## Competitive Advantages
- **Content moat**: All lessons created in‑house by 200+ linguists, ensuring high quality and pedagogical rigor.
- **Proven methodology**: Backed by academic studies showing real‑world speaking confidence.
- **AI integration**: Babbel Speak offers stress‑free, AI‑driven conversation practice, blending technology with human expertise.
- **First‑mover**: Pioneered online language learning in 2007 and remains one of the most recognized brands in the space.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding AI capabilities (Babbel Speak) to personalize and accelerate learning.
- Growing B2B segment (Babbel for Business) and live class offerings.
- Deepening content library across 14 languages and all proficiency levels.
- Maintaining leadership in digital learning innovation (consistent awards and recognitions).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Diverse, international team (80+ nationalities) based in Berlin and New York. Emphasis on mutual understanding and inclusion.
- **Work policy**: On‑site presence expected (offices in Berlin and NYC); not fully remote.
- **Employee ratings**: 3.5/5 on LinkedIn (Work‑Life: 4.4, Culture: 3.8, Compensation: 3.0, Career: 3.3).
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on a mission‑driven product used by millions; access to language learning resources; modern offices in central locations.

## Sources
1. [Babbel Careers](https://jobs.babbel.com/en)
2. [Babbel About Us](https://www.babbel.com/about-us)
3. [Babbel LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/babbel-com)
4. [Built In Babbel Profile](https://builtin.com/company/babbel)
5. [Babbel Homepage](https://www.babbel.com/)

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