We power peoples progress.
At Preply were all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor craft a personalized learning journey and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led tech-enabled - and its creating real impact. So far 90000 tutors have delivered over 20 million lessons to learners in more than 175 countries. Every Preply lesson sparks change fuels ambition and drives progress that matters.
Meet the team!
At Preply we run hundreds of A/B tests at any given time each with unique tracking and analytical challenges. Our platform spans a diverse product ecosystem with sophisticated tutor-learner interactions that generate a vast amount of data. This creates an exciting high-impact environment where data engineering plays a crucial role in shaping our business decisions.
We are passionate about building a modern data infrastructure that enables our teams to extract insights optimize experiments and power innovation. As Analytics Engineer you will help shape critical data models streamline pipelines and optimize our analytics stack to empower decision-making across the company.
Why Youll Love This Role:
- Cutting-edge data stack: work with DBT Snowflake Airflow Looker Databricks Monte Carlo and help shape our future tech choices.
- End-to-End impact: own and evolve the entire data pipeline from ingestion to transformation and modeling ensuring accuracy scalability and performance.
- Cross-team collaboration: partner with data scientists analysts and engineers to create high-quality actionable datasets for business insights.
- Continuous learning & growth: be part of a data-driven culture where innovation best practices and ownership drive success.
What Youll Be Doing:
- Design build and evolve our data models to ensure simplicity accessibility scalability and reliability.
- Develop efficient ETL/ELT pipelines optimizing event ingestion and transformation across our multi-terabyte data lake/warehouse.
- Optimize and manage our BI layer (Looker via LookML) ensuring clear intuitive and performant self-service analytics.
- Collaborate with data scientists to optimize pipelines minimize redundancies and improve data governance.
- Apply software engineering best practices like version control CI/CD for analytics and automated data quality checks.
- Drive data reliability initiatives ensuring clean accurate and well-documented data for decision-making.
- Influence company-wide data strategies to support product growth experimentation and personalization at scale.
What you need to succeed:
- Around 3-5 years of experience in analytics engineering data engineering or similar roles.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python. Experience building and maintaining BI models.
- A strong understanding of data governance modeling best practices and self-service analytics.
- A rare combination of technical skills business mindset and communication skills able to persuade and influence data/business stakeholders;
- Strong curiosity problem-finding and problem-solving skills;
- Creative mindset and a proactive/can-do attitude towards the creation and evaluation of new solutions;
- Fluency in English (C1 level or above) with the ability to communicate complex data concepts clearly.
Nice to have:
- Experience scaling data infrastructure in fast-growing startups.
- Hands-on experience with DBT Looker or Airflow.
- Knowledge of event taxonomy standardization and KPI definition across medium-to-large organizations.
- Experience working with AWS or Google Cloud data ecosystems.
- Familiarity with other workflow orchestration tools (Luigi Jenkins etc.).
Why youll love it at Preply:
- An open collaborative dynamic and diverse culture;
- A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development;
- A competitive financial package with equity leave allowance and health insurance;
- Access to free mental health support platforms;
- The opportunity to unlock the potential of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!).
Our Principles
- Care to change the world - We are passionate about our work and care deeply about its impact to be life changing.
- We do it for learners - For both Preply and tutors learners are why we do what we do. Every day we focus on empowering tutors to deliver an exceptional learning experience.
- Keep perfecting - To create an outstanding customer experience we focus on simplicity smoothness and enjoyment continually perfecting it as every detail matters.
- Now is the time - In a fast-paced world it matters how quickly we act. Now is the time to make great things happen.
- Disciplined execution - What makes us disciplined is the excellence in our execution. We set clear goals focus on what matters and utilize our resources efficiently.
- Dive deep - We leverage business acumen and curiosity to investigate disparities between numbers and stories unlocking meaningful insights to guide our decisions.
- Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe todays best performance becomes tomorrows starting point. We humbly embrace feedback and learn from setbacks.
- Raise the bar - We raise our performance standards continuously alongside each new hire and promotion. We build diverse and high-performing teams that can make a real difference.
- Challenge disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication even when we dont fully agree. We speak our minds challenge when necessary and fully commit to decisions once made.
- One Preply - We prioritize collaboration inclusion and the success of our team over personal ambitions. Together we support and celebrate each others progress.
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Preply is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive. Different opinions and viewpoints are key ingredients in our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company.
Preply will consider all applications for employment without regard to race color religion gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin disability age or veteran status. Together we are The World Class.