Software Engineer II, Backend
About The Position
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. 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. Content Infrastructure: As a backend engineer on the Content Infrastructure Team, you'll build features that make up the core backbone of the learning experience on Duolingo. Our short-form lessons are where learners spend the majority of their time on the app, and our team's mission is to build and update infrastructure to enable quick iteration and improve content quality in these sessions. You'll work on scaling new exercise types that support our learners in practicing speaking or grammar in bite-sized formats, as well as re-architecting our infrastructure in other ways to help set our teams up for success in the future. We're looking for engineers who are passionate about designing scalable systems to help improve the quality of our short-form sessions!
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- Industry experience building high-traffic APIs using public cloud providers
- Experience with industry observability technology, such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, or DataDog.
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
Benefits
- equity compensation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
