Platform
The Platform Pillar ensures that Duolingo’s infrastructure, tools, and AI systems support our mission of delivering a seamless and personalized learning experience. This Pillar powers the technical backbone of our app and enables all other Pillars to thrive.
Growth
Growth is core to our mission at Duolingo; helping users find and build a habit with language learning is tied to our ability to make the product fun and engaging every single day. We work on a wide variety of features that build and strengthen habits, like streaks, quests, leaderboards, notifications, and are inventing new features to address user needs.
New Subjects
Over the last few years, Duolingo has expanded beyond language learning into entirely new subjects: Math, Music, and Chess. These products reach millions of daily active users, are growing quickly, and represent a CEO-level bet that Duolingo can become a platform for learning anything. The objective is to expand Duolingo by doing for new subjects what we have done for language.
🧠 You will...
Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects
Develop, release, and maintain backend services and/or infrastructure
Lead individual project priorities, milestones, and ensure we're always shipping
✅ You have...
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
Experience programming in Java, Python, or Kotlin
Solid understanding of one or more database technologies
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
Industry experience building high-traffic APIs using public cloud providers
Experience with industry observability technology, such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, or DataDog.
The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!
Salary Range
$182,800—$247,300 USD
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Equal Employment Opportunity: Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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