Senior Software Engineer

Duolingo • New York, NY

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About The Position

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
As an iOS engineer on one of our Client Platform teams, you will have the opportunity to build all the vital infrastructure and tools to ensure Duolingo's iOS development can continue to be fast and efficient at scale.

Client Platform, Stability, and Performance:
This team is charged with improving and maintaining the stability and performance of our Learning application across the Android and iOS platforms. The team builds and maintains the tooling that integrates metrics into our experiment analyses to automate finding code areas that need attention and leads architectural initiatives to reinvent the slowest parts of the app.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in Swift
• Proficiency in multithreading, concurrency, and synchronization primitives
• Deep understanding of ARC and memory management in iOS
• Proven experience in architecting and leading complex iOS projects at scale
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling difficult challenges

Nice To Haves

• Experience using Instruments to diagnose complex performance issues

Responsibilities

• Help teams measure and understand their performance, as well as optimize existing features and functionality while evangelizing best practices
• Support engineers and partners from across the organization as they use the performance metric we provide, and use these interactions to improve our roadmaps
• Use and develop tools like Instruments to analyze the performance, resource usage, and behavior of the application to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees