As the largest social network for language learning in the world we’ve already had some great success, but there is so much more that we want to build and improve on. We’re looking for smart, agile, independent engineers who can help us take our APIs to the next level, enabling more amazing ways for our users to interact with each other and learn even more. We’re looking for someone who loves to think about the server side, but also remembers that they are building APIs for end users and helps to tailor the experience for them.

We use PHP/Symfony, MySQL, Redis, memcached, nginx, and vagrant to get things done, but we’re always open to change and the best tool for the job should be the one we’re using.

Why is a Back End Software Engineer important at busuu?

We’ve got some big plans for our APIs, from micro services to real time communications, and a few things we can’t talk about publicly just yet :). As a Back End Engineer, you’ll be at the front line of all our changes, with the authority and responsibility to make decisions that will affect the platform and our users for the better. Our team is still small enough that every engineer makes a massive difference.

What does a Back End Engineer at busuu get to do?

You’ll have the opportunity to be at the centre of our biggest and most exciting phase yet, making big decisions that will help you grow and define your career as a Software Engineer. You’ll ship code often, support it all the way to production, and work with our web/mobile engineers and product teams to ensure a joined up experience for our users.

You’ll work on a platform that is serving 55 million users in over 30 countries, supporting a huge amount of different payment methods across all territories (you haven’t lived until you’ve thought about how to do recurring mobile payments in Brazil and Russia…), integrations with some of the biggest mobile operators in the world, and an ever growing catalogue of languages and ways to learn.

You’ll get to be involved in every aspect of what we do, from features shipping to consumers, back office and customer support integration/tooling, payments, speed, resiliency, and scaling, to name just a few. If you want to fix something, you have the ability to do it.