Senior Software Engineer

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

The Monetization Pillar focuses on Duolingo's key business drivers,subscriptions, ads, and in-app purchases. As a senior backend Engineer, you will play an instrumental role in the strategic direction of Duolingo by developing and refining the methods that make our monetization efforts more effective and efficient.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or 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