Senior Android Engineer, Chess
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
29-08-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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.
About the role
Chess Team:
The Chess team builds engaging educational features through Duolingos signature approach to learning. On this team you will shape core product experiences by improving gameplay and creating engaging high-quality course content. As an engineer building Duolingos newest product you can expect to move quickly prototype boldly and experiment often
You will...
- Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects
- Develop release and maintain native Android application features in Kotlin
- Mentor and set technical direction for junior engineers on the team
You have...
- A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Programming experience in Kotlin on Android
- The ability to communicate technical issues effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to relocate to New York NY
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Strong programming experience building reactive Android apps
- Demonstrated self-direction with a desire both to learn new techniques and mentor others
- Outstanding leadership and negotiation skills
- Experience designing clean and maintainable APIs
- Experience writing unit tests and testable code
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:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- REST
- Eclipse
- Android
- Application Development
- SDKs
- SQLITE
- IOS
- Java
- JSON
- Gradle
- Mobile Applications
About Company
Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps!
