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We inspire people to keep learning.
Through audio and text explainers called Blinks, original podcasts, and author-driven content, Blinkist is on a mission to help people turn ordinary moments into extraordinary learning opportunities—anytime, anywhere.
Team: Engineering & Data – Team Taco
Main Location: Barcelona or anywhere in Spain
Remote Policy: Fully remote with your main location being in Spain
Team: Engineering & Data
Contract: Full Time
Hours: Flexible up, to 40 hours a week
Reporting to: Hossein Toussi, Engineering Manager
Contact Person: Kinga Kostyrka, Talent Acquisition
Note from the Hiring Manager
"On the team Taco, one of our cross-functional teams, we focus on increasing engagement & satisfaction of our users through removing micro-frustrations and making the overall experience more delightful. Shipping iteratively, and celebrating our successes are two of the many things we are proud of.
We are looking for an iOS engineer to join our team, where developers (iOS, Android, Backend), Designers, a QA specialist, and a product manager collaborate closely to reach our goals."
What You'll Do
- With a focus on feature development, you help us deliver a top-notch product affecting millions of users and revenue.
- Contribute to our discovery and delivery process, helping product and design in addressing user needs.
- You follow best practices in engineering to achieve a robust code base, e.g. through code reviews and unit tests.
- Build astonishing UI that takes into consideration platform-specific design guidelines and UX best practices.
- Take part in our test automation process, implementing reliable and maintainable tests.
Why You?
- Have 2+ years of experience in iOS development with good programming skills in Swift
- Shipped customer-facing apps
- Experience with unit testing
- Good understanding of Apple’s guidelines and most common iOS Frameworks (our stack is based on UIKit, CoreData, Operations and Queues, and AVFoundation).
- Experience with different design patterns like MVVM, and MVC.
- Experience with REST APIs.
- Fluent English communication skills
- You already live in Spain.
Why Blinkist?
At Blinkist, we don’t just accept our differences — we celebrate and support our diversity. We are committed to fair and inclusive hiring practices and want to provide equal opportunity.
Here are some of our best perks:
- 30 vacation days
- 4 wellbeing days (opportunity to unplug and focus on wellness) + 4 days of company-wide learning
- Unlimited Home office
- Monthly home office allowance: 50,-EUR
- Learning & Development Budget
- Spill - employee Mental Health Support
- Access to partner Apps
- Company events
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If we’ve captured your interest and you want to take part in building the leading destination for the modern lifelong learner, apply online now. We can't wait to hear from you!
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Berlin +/- 2 hours
We inspire people to keep learning.
Through audio and text explainers called Blinks, original podcasts, and author-driven content, Blinkist is on a mission to help people turn ordinary moments into extraordinary learning opportunities—anytime, anywhere.
Main Location: Barcelona or Berlin
Remote Policy: Permanently from Germany, Spain, UK, or Finland. Temporarily from anywhere.
Team: Engineering & Data – Web
Contract: Full-Time
Hours: Flexible working hours
Reporting to: Ferhat Beyaz, Engineering Manager
Contact Person: Johannes Schröder, Talent Acquisition
Note from the Hiring Manager
"This ad goes out to those who want to do meaningful work, take ownership, and never stop learning. As Senior Full Stack Web Engineer, you join one of two cross-functional Growth Missions – small groups of Engineers working hand in hand with Product Managers, Designers and QA. We have ambitious plans for 2021, including doubling our web revenue share and our venture into B2B. Thus, web is key for us to grow our customer base through great product explanation and onboarding. This is where you come in."
Our tech stack is based on Ruby on Rails, vue.js & AWS.
What You'll do
- In a small cross-functional team, introduce new customers to Blinkist and inspire millions of users across our platforms to keep learning. Web is a big revenue stream for us!
- We believe in true empowerment. You and your team take full ownership of managing and extending our web platform.
- Work alongside a dynamic and experienced team, grow others and elevate your own skills, both technical and non-technical.
- And of course, produce high-quality, maintainable code, contribute to requirements and planning, test changes and collaboratively review as well as ship it.
Why you?
- 5+ years experience developing web applications from front to backend
- Deep technical knowledge on the frontend, including Vue.js or similar
- In-depth technical knowledge in the backend with Ruby on Rails or similar
- Proficient in English and able to effectively communicate complex technical information.
Great to Haves
- Experience in maintaining AWS infrastructures
- Experience with mentoring others
- You love contributing ideas to improve the codebase, system's architecture, and overall development process.
- You advocate for the user with an eye for great design and empathy for their needs.
- You’re used to balancing multiple concerns, including customer demands, performance, A/B tests, UX research, accessibility, code quality and a rapidly changing ecosystem.
Why Blinkist?
At Blinkist, we don’t just accept our differences — we celebrate and support our diversity. We are committed to fair and inclusive hiring practices and want to provide equal opportunity.
We created our own Blinkist Operating System that fosters a unique company culture. Our core values, empowerment, accountability, personal development, direct communication, and transparency guide our day-to-day work. You have the opportunity to accelerate your career and create a true impact within your field.
Work how you work best and never stop learning. You benefit from perks like the yearly learning budget, remote support, up-to-date hardware, public transport ticket, or access to partner apps. Our cook Ed prepares free and healthy lunch for us at the office. And, you can take time to recharge – with flexible work policies and 30 annual vacation days.
Apply Now
At Blinkist, we embrace a hybrid way of work where you can choose to work remotely, from home, or the Blinkist office. For candidates wishing to relocate to Berlin, we support both relocation and visa processes.
If we’ve captured your interest and you want to take part in building the leading destination for the modern lifelong learner, apply online now. We can't wait to hear from you!
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Berlin +/- 2 hours
We inspire people to keep learning.
Through audio and text explainers called Blinks, original podcasts, and author-driven content, Blinkist is on a mission to help people turn ordinary moments into extraordinary learning opportunities—anytime, anywhere.
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Main Location: Barcelona or Berlin
Remote Policy: Temporarily from anywhere within same Timezone
Team: Engineering & Data – QA
Contract: Full-Time
Hours: Flexible working hours
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What You'll Do
As a Senior QA Engineer, you will join one of our cross-functional teams and join a group of six QA Engineers/Analysts working hand in hand with Product Managers, Designers, iOS, Android and Backend Engineers.
- You will be part of one of our cross-functional teams, and take ownership of managing and coordinating all the aspects of software quality including the releases and automated tests.
- You own the team’s mindset of the software quality throughout the development cycle and keep coaching to improve – contribute to requirements and planning, pair with engineers for reviewing changes, and collaboratively analyse as well as ship it to our users.
- You also actively share your experience and knowledge to mentor others in our QA team and communicate your technical knowledge effectively.
- You will work and communicate in our collaborative environment. Give and receive feedback to build trust, transparency, and elevate your peers.
Why You
To be successful in this role, we believe you need solid experience in mobile application testing, managing releases and E2E automated tests for iOS and Android. Ideally, you worked with XCUITest and/or Espresso in Swift, Kotlin or Java. You are in – or on track towards – a senior role. In a fast-paced company, this usually equates to 5+ years of experience.
- You have strong knowledge of Agile testing methodologies and best practices
- You have strong understanding of testing methodologies and quality as part of the delivery lifecycle
- You enjoy supporting and coaching cross-functional team members to continuously develop their quality mindset.
- You are familiar with and have experience with creating and configuring CI/CD pipelines
- You enjoy pair programming and teamwork - quality is a collective effort for you rather than just one person’s responsibility
Why Blinkist
At Blinkist, we don’t just accept our differences — we celebrate and support our diversity. We are committed to fair and inclusive hiring practices and want to provide equal opportunity.
We created our own Blinkist Operating System that fosters a unique company culture. Our core values, empowerment, accountability, personal development, direct communication, and transparency guide our day-to-day work. You have the opportunity to accelerate your career and create a true impact within your field. Work how you work best and never stop learning. You benefit from perks like the yearly learning budget, remote support, up-to-date hardware, public transport ticket, or access to partner apps. Our cook Ed prepares free and healthy lunch for us at the office. And, you can take time to recharge – with flexible work policies and 30 annual vacation days
At Blinkist, we embrace a hybrid way of work where you can choose to work remotely, from home, or the Blinkist office. We are happy to support your relocation and via application for Germany.
Apply Now
If we’ve captured your interest and you want to take part in building the leading destination for the modern lifelong learner, apply online now. We can't wait to hear from you!
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We inspire people to keep learning.
Through audio and text explainers called Blinks, original podcasts, and author-driven content, Blinkist is on a mission to help people turn ordinary moments into extraordinary learning opportunities—anytime, anywhere.
Main Location: Berlin or Remote
Remote Policy: Permanently from Germany, Spain, UK, or Finland. Temporarily from anywhere.
Team: Engineering & Data – Web
Contract: Full-Time
Hours: Flexible working hours
Reporting to: Hossein Toussi, Engineering Manager
Contact Person: Mertcan Uzun, Talent Acquisition
Note from the Hiring Manager
"This ad goes out to those who want to do meaningful work, take ownership, and never stop learning. As a Senior Backend Engineer at Blinkist, you join one of our core missions – focused on growth, creating initiatives that help users discover, access, evaluate and eventually subscribe to the Blinkist app. Our missions are small cross-functional teams where Engineers, Designers, QA, and a Product Owner collaborate with the help of an Agile Coach. And by the end of 2021, we want to massively increase monthly engaged learners on our apps. This is where you come in."
What You'll do
- In a cross-functional team, test and deliver growth initiatives for an engaging learning app on iOS, Android, and Web affecting millions of users and revenue.
- Take ownership of managing and extending our backend services. Use your technical expertise in building backend architecture and infrastructure at scale.
- Write high-quality, maintainable code, test it, collaboratively review it, and ship it.
- Identify and proactively address challenges on the backend, driving complex technical decisions within your peer group.
- Follow and iterate on engineering best practice to achieve a robust code base, e.g. through code reviews and unit tests.
Why You?
- 5+ years engineering experience, and 3+ years with services on the backend with Ruby and database technologies
- In-depth experience in building robust, scalable platforms tackling performance and optimisation problems
- Proficient in English and able to effectively communicate complex technical information
Great to Haves
- Advanced understanding of different programming paradigms, clean code, high quality tests, security as well as performance related topics
- Demonstrated ability to own and carry out a big project end to end involving complex decisions based on business and technological impact
- Hands-on experience with AWS
- University degree in Computer Science or a related field
Why Blinkist?
At Blinkist, we don’t just accept our differences — we celebrate and support our diversity. We are committed to fair and inclusive hiring practices and want to provide equal opportunity.
We created our own Blinkist Operating System that fosters a unique company culture. Our core values, empowerment, accountability, personal development, direct communication, and transparency guide our day-to-day work. You have the opportunity to accelerate your career and create a true impact within your field.
Work how you work best and never stop learning. You benefit from perks like the yearly learning budget, remote support, up-to-date hardware, public transport ticket, or access to partner apps. Our cook Ed prepares free and healthy lunch for us at the office. And, you can take time to recharge – with flexible work policies and 30 annual vacation days
At Blinkist, we embrace a hybrid way of work where you can choose to work remotely, from home, or the Blinkist office. We are happy to support your relocation and via application for Germany.
Apply Now
If we’ve captured your interest and you want to take part in building the leading destination for the modern lifelong learner, apply online now. We can't wait to hear from you!
Job Benefits:
- Free lunch
- 30 days paid vacation / year
- Yearly public transportation pass
- Yearly gym membership
- Relocation & Bureaucracy assistance
- Flexible working hours & Home office
- Quarterly events & Yearly company retreat
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Berlin +/- 2 hours
We inspire people to keep learning.
Through audio and text explainers called Blinks, original podcasts, and author-driven content, Blinkist is on a mission to help people turn ordinary moments into extraordinary learning opportunities—anytime, anywhere.
Main Location: Berlin or Remote
Remote Policy: Permanently from Germany, Spain, UK, or Finland. Temporarily from anywhere.
Team: Engineering & Data – Web
Contract: Full-Time
Hours: Flexible working hours
Reporting to: Ferhat Beyaz, Engineering Manager
Contact Person: Mertcan Uzun, Talent Acquisition
Note from the Hiring Manager
"This ad goes out to those who want to do meaningful work, take ownership, and never stop learning. As Senior Frontend Engineer – Web, you join one of two cross-functional Growth Missions – small groups of Engineers working hand in hand with Product Managers, Designers and QA. We have ambitious plans for 2021, including doubling our web revenue share and our venture into B2B. Thus, web is key for us to grow our customer base through great product explanation and onboarding. This is where you come in."
Our tech stack is based on Ruby on Rails, vue.js & AWS with our development tools including GitHub, CircleCI, DataDog, JIRA & Airbrake.
What You'll do
- Join a growth focused web team directly driving business impact and revenue.
- Take ownership of managing and extending our web platform, with a focus on the frontend.
- Elevate your peers by giving and receiving feedback and working collaboratively.
- Own the development cycle front to end – produce high-quality maintainable code, contribute to requirements and planning, test changes and collaboratively review as well as ship it.
Why you?
- 5+ years experience developing web applications
- Deep technical knowledge on the frontend, including Vue.js or similar
- In-depth experience with one or more full stack web frameworks – Rails, Spring, Django, or Laravel
- Proficient in English and able to effectively communicate complex technical information.
Great to Haves
- Experience with mentoring others
- Worked with AWS
- You love contributing ideas to improve the codebase, system's architecture, and overall development process.
- You advocate for the user with an eye for great design and empathy for their needs.
- You’re used to balancing multiple concerns, including customer demands, performance, A/B tests, UX research, accessibility, code quality and a rapidly changing ecosystem.
Why Blinkist?
At Blinkist, we don’t just accept our differences — we celebrate and support our diversity. We are committed to fair and inclusive hiring practices and want to provide equal opportunity.
We created our own Blinkist Operating System that fosters a unique company culture. Our core values, empowerment, accountability, personal development, direct communication, and transparency guide our day-to-day work. You have the opportunity to accelerate your career and create a true impact within your field. Work how you work best and never stop learning. You benefit from perks like the yearly learning budget, remote support, up-to-date hardware, public transport ticket, or access to partner apps. Our cook Ed prepares free and healthy lunch for us at the office. And, you can take time to recharge – with flexible work policies and 30 annual vacation days.
At Blinkist, we embrace a hybrid way of work where you can choose to work remotely, from home, or the Blinkist office. We are happy to support your relocation and via application for Germany.
Apply Now
If we’ve captured your interest and you want to take part in building the leading destination for the modern lifelong learner, apply online now. We can't wait to hear from you!
Job Benefits:
- Free lunch
- 30 days paid vacation / year
- Yearly public transportation pass
- Yearly gym membership
- Relocation & Bureaucracy assistance
- Flexible working hours & Home office
- Quarterly events & Yearly company retreat
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Berlin +/- 2 hours