Busuu is one of the top EdTech companies in the world and has won numerous awards for its innovation and impact in language learning.
Busuu’s vision is to empower everyone in the world through languages. We are the world’s largest online community for language learning, with more than 120+ million users from 190 countries, growing at up to 20,000 new users per day. We make learning a language easy by combining AI-powered courses with instant feedback from our global community of native speakers and live tutoring from qualified teachers across the world.
In January 2022, Busuu was acquired by one of the largest EdTech companies in the world, Chegg (NYSE:CHGG). Being part of Chegg will help us to accelerate our growth and achieve our vision even faster.
If you are interested in EdTech and want to be a part of a mission-driven organization then we would like to hear from you.
What does joining the MarTech squad look like?
MarTech (Marketing Technology) is a new squad that sits within the Growth Engineering Tribe, full of possibilities to develop and optimize technologies that help marketing teams attract/retain customers and analyze the success efforts. You will work closely with the acquisition and the marketing teams to deliver campaigns effectively, at scale, and integrate the right tools to build a best-in-class marketing engine.
MarTech will allow the company to make smarter decisions, create better experiences, and save time on different tasks that technology can do for us.
Therefore, if you are passionate about the latest technologies, you will have the opportunity to work with the different ones which make and will make up our MarTech stack.
Why is a Frontend Engineer important at Busuu?
While native mobile apps are a massive growth area for us, the majority of our users still experience Busuu through the web. It’s also our longest serving platform, and has been at the core of the Busuu experience right from the start. It is incredibly important for us to continue building a great web user experience, both now and into the future, and to find people that are passionate about web technologies in general.
As a FrontEnd Engineer, you’ll be responsible for all the web products at Busuu, the code, UI, and UX of 4 different projects. Our team is still small enough that every engineer makes a massive difference.
At Busuu, there’s no server-side rendering, our Backend team provides APIs and as FrontEnd engineers our daily work is to interact and implement such technologies in the client.
What does a Frontend Engineer do at Busuu?
We trust in people who have a desire to learn and share, we’re looking for Engineers who want to make a difference by creating smart and reusable components.
You’ll be working on implementing new features working in sprints. We’re looking for people who have a passion for the user (UI, UX) but also who are interested in performance and code scalability.
You’ll be working in a team of Engineers from different backgrounds, and you should be willing to adapt and suggest improvements to an existing codebase. We’ve got many features planned for 2022 and we’re looking for people who have experience with Single Page Applications, working on real-time interactions, and creating friendly user experiences. You’ll have the full support of the rest of the FrontEnd team, allowing you to lead projects with an experienced team of senior engineers to guide and learn from.
What we’re looking for in a Frontend Engineer
- Strong knowledge of ES5 and ES6.
- Experience with testing methodology using Mocha, Jest, or similar.
- Knowledge of HTML Semantic and CSS.
- Experience in building complex layouts and working with responsive applications.
- Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations.
- Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tools such as Angular or React
- Experience in Unit Testing
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
Nice to have:
- Experience working with PHP/OOP (used in some services and not in the new ones) and experience with a modern web framework (we use Symfony 3 to 5).
- Experience with writing performant and scalable services in NodeJS with TypeScript.
- Good expertise in data modeling and performance optimization using relational databases (we use MySQL and PostgreSQL).
- Exposure to the architecture of high-traffic web platforms.
- New systems are done with NestJS and there is the possibility to use even more advanced techniques such as hexagonal architecture, CQRS, and Domain-Driven Design (with an event-driven architecture) in some projects.
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. The hiring process for FrontEnd Engineering is the following steps:
- 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
- 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 FrontEnd team
- Culture fit interview - On-site or video call with the Engineering Manager
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, judgment-free zone to speak freely.
If you like the sound of that, join us. We'd love to hear what you have to say.