As a Backend Engineer at Blinkist, you join one of our cross-functional teams, where iOS, Android, Backend and QA Engineers, Designers, and a Product Owner collaborate with the help of an Agile Coach, helping millions of users discover new content. What You Will Do Write high-quality and maintainable code. Test, collaboratively review, and ship it. Our stack is based on Ruby on Rails, but we’re always open to use different frameworks and/or programming languages.Take ownership of managing and extending our backend services. Use your technical expertise in building backend architecture and infrastructure at scale.Follow and iterate on engineering best practice to achieve a robust code base, e.g. through code reviews and unit tests.Collaborate closely with Product and Design to build new features.Support other teams in finding pragmatic solutions that can be implemented in a reasonable amount of time.Identify and proactively address challenges on the backend, driving complex technical decisions within your peer group. If you choose to join our team in Berlin, you'll have access to our modern office space in Neukölln and enjoy healthy plant-based meals prepared fresh every day by our very own chef. 🥑
Blinkist is powered by cross-functional teams. These teams often include designers, mobile, web, and backend engineers. And then there's the Growth Team (nickname Bamboo). We sit between BI, Data Science, and marketing teams. We’re accountable for web and mobile analytics, mission-critical internal and 3rd party data integrations. We build our own microservices and contribute to multiple projects throughout the whole company. Our mistake can easily cost a 6-digit number. That’s why we hold ourselves to a very high standard, setting the bar for the whole company. We’re super heavy on observability and monitoring. One of your future colleagues even runs a Data Analysis course called SQL Habit. How we work We (the Growth Team) really like the approach described in the book Shape Up (https://basecamp.com/shapeup). We often start with a pre-shaped idea (for example, build a service that will monitor our analytics setup on every single Blinkist webpage). We invest in planning and risk assessment early on, breaking things down into small tasks. Then comes the building phase – we work on those small items, shipping them live 15 times a day. We’re not “Done” until all of the items are live, measured, and monitored. Then we’re betting on the next idea. What You Will Do The position is called a Backend Engineer because 70% of time you’ll be working with backend services. You’ll also get Automation and Data Engineering experience and work with our Data Warehouse, BI tools, etc. The goal is to make sure we have stable and resilient data integrations to support data-informed decision-making. Here’re some examples of real projects we tackled recently: build a microservice that processes real-time callbacks with marketing attribution datamodify an ETL pipeline that transforms our web analytics datadebug a data mismatch between internal and external analytics systemssync events from our event bus with a 3rd party service If you join the team you will: Participate in planning and risk assessment meetings with your team. Write high-quality and maintainable code. Test, collaboratively review, ship it and monitor with SQL and Datadog alerts. Our stack is based on Ruby on Rails, AWS Lambdas, Redshift, Snowflake, Datadog, etc.Take care of your own infrastructure with Terraform and AWS.Take ownership of managing and extending our backend services.Collaborate closely with Engineering, Marketing, and Business Intelligence teams
Are you passionate about Software Engineering and you want to have a big impact with your work? Do you believe in the power of ideas and want to grow and develop? In 2023 we want to take Blinkist to the next level on our journey to become the world’s leading bite-sized edutainment service that feeds curious minds with powerful ideas. This is where you come in. As iOS Developer you will contribute to our delivery performance and product success of our award winning Blinkist iOS application. Together with your team you will take user on-boarding to the next level by making it seamless, optimised and efficient for everyone installing the Blinkist application. You will play a key role in building an image of how Blinkist can enrich the lives of all curious minds out there. What You Will Do: Take responsibility in driving the Blinkist iOS app from day 1Work in a stream with iOS and Android developers, product managers, and designersHelp develop product concepts for a clean and consistent user experienceAssure a high quality and robust code base, working with code reviews and automated testsProvide second level support to our customers
At Blinkist, our Web teams enable the Web platform by bringing our trove of content to life, working closely with stakeholders in Marketing, Content, Product, and Engineering. The Web platform is a primary contributor to the company’s growth–our plans for 2023 involve achieving ambitious growth goals through SEO, empowering our Marketing and Content teams to create and curate content, and reevaluating our tech stack to enable us to develop more efficiently and empower other teams, bringing in technologies such as HyGraph and GraphQL. We’re looking for a software engineer to take on a high-growth opportunity on a cross-functional team. As a member of our Web team, you’ll delve into the worlds of SEO and content management and work directly with Marketing and Content stakeholders. You’ll deepen your technical craft, working alongside experienced developers, mentors, a product manager, and a designer.
Are you passionate about Software Engineering and you want to have a big impact with your work? Do you believe in the power of ideas and want to grow and develop? As Senior Backend Engineer you will contribute to our delivery performance and product success of our award winning Blinkist application. You will join the newly formed Personalisation team, a cross-functional team consisting of product management, engineering and data science. The team’s focus is building data products that leverage AI/ML technologies to deliver to our customers the right content, at the right time, in the right way! What You Will Do Identify and proactively address challenges on the backend, driving complex technical decisions within your peer group.Take ownership of managing and extending our backend services. Use your technical expertise in building backend architecture and infrastructure at scale.Write high-quality and maintainable code: test, collaboratively review, and ship!Work on our Ruby on Rails stack, always keeping an eye on the latest trends, frameworks and/or programming languages.Follow and iterate on engineering best practices to achieve a robust code base, e.g. through code reviews and unit tests.Collaborate closely with Product and Design to build new features.Support other teams in finding pragmatic solutions that can be implemented in a reasonable amount of time.
Are you an ambitious software developer looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real impact in a startup environment? We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated developer to join our team and take on exciting challenges. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the founders on the development of a new product. Your strong debugging and troubleshooting skills will be crucial as you quickly and effectively resolve issues in complex systems. Your fearless attitude toward diving into large, unfamiliar codebases will allow you to navigate and understand them with ease. In a startup environment, it is crucial to have a pragmatic approach to decision-making and the ability to prioritize tasks and make efficient trade-offs to get things done. As a tool-builder, you will have the opportunity to automa\te manual tasks and improve our users’ experiences. Your generalist approach and broad skill set, combined with your proactive attitude and strong communication skills, will make you a valuable asset to our team. We are looking for someone who is comfortable taking ownership of tasks and making fast decisions in an uncertain environment. If you are excited about the opportunity to work closely with the founders on a new product and make a meaningful contribution to our startup, we encourage you to apply now! If you choose to join our team in Berlin, you'll have access to our modern office space in Neukölln and enjoy healthy plant-based meals prepared fresh every day by our very own chef. 🥑
At Blinkist, our Web teams enable the Web platform by bringing our trove of content to life, working closely with stakeholders in Marketing, Content, Product, and Engineering. The Web platform is a primary contributor to the company’s growth. In addition to achieving ambitious growth goals through SEO, our plans for 2023 involve empowering our Marketing and Content teams to easily create and manage content and reevaluating our tech stack to enable more efficient development, bringing in technologies such as HyGraph and GraphQL. We’re looking for an experienced Staff Engineer/Tech Lead to drive impact in our Web teams. You'll use your expertise and passion to multiply the output of the teams. You’ll own our platform and influence projects across the organization, providing technical leadership and mentorship while fostering a culture of collaboration and bias for action. You'll be hands-on in the code and a go-to sparring partner for developers, designers, product managers, and engineering leadership in their day-to-day. What You Will Do Contribute to one of our top company priorities this year: scale Web by cracking organic growth through SEOShape the long-term technical landscape of Web at Blinkist, providing technical guidance across different projects and advising stakeholders on technical topicsWork day to day alongside product and design in iterative planning, implementation, and improvement and be a key sparring partner for themDevelop and deploy high quality code, taking ownership of our Web platform. Our current stack: Vue, Nuxt, Ruby on Rails, AWSEmpower engineers towards our technical vision through mentorship and leadership If you choose to join our team in Berlin, you'll have access to our modern office space in Neukölln and enjoy healthy plant-based meals prepared fresh every day by our very own chef. 🥑