Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
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Job Description
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission and thats where you come in!
At Duolingo youll 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. Youll have limitless learning opportunities mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds and a variety of projects with large scopes while doing work thats both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Below you can find more information about the teams were hiring for:
DevX AI Team:
The DevX AI team empowers engineers at Duolingo to be more effective by introducing AI-infused tools that simplify workflows and reduce friction and toil. As a Staff Engineer in the team youll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of engineering at Duolingo. You will define the strategy and architecture of AI-driven developer tools mentor senior engineers and drive high-leverage initiatives that touch every part of our software lifecycle. You will build developer tooling that amplify the impact of engineers including productionizing an MCP infrastructure to connect with AI coding agents.
You will...
- Develop release and maintain backend services and/or infrastructure
- Introduce and iterate on developer tools and advocate for adoption
- Collaborate on projects with developers across the company
- Lead individual project priorities milestones and ensure were always shipping
You have...
- A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Strong competencies in data structures algorithms and software design
- Experience programming in Java Python or Kotlin
- Experience working closely with customers and building products that they love
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Industry experience with full stack development for iOS or Android
- Industry experience building high-traffic products using public cloud providers
- Experience integrating AI/ML systems into developer-facing tools including prompt design model evaluation or agent workflow orchestration
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to skills experience education and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees holistic well-being with our benefitshere.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation please contact.
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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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
