Software Engineer, Intern

Pittsburgh, PA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Summary

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. But weve got more left to do and thats where you come in!

Duolingo is the most popular language-learning application in the world with over 500 million users and over half a billion exercises completed daily. Beyond our core language learning product we have also entered into English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test and introduced new courses for Music and Math.

We are passionate about educating our users making fact-based decisions and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work limitless learning opportunities and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!

About the role

You will...

Contribute to full-stack software projects by developing testing and maintaining features and services.
Develop release and maintain services and/or infrastructure
Lead individual project priorities deadlines and deliverables
Contribute to code reviews and collaborate across teams to ensure quality and scalability

You have...

Graduating in Fall 2026 or Spring 2027
Pursuing a B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or related technical field (i.e. math physics or data science)
Dedication to our mission of universally available education
Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Java Python Kotlin or Swift.
12 weeks of consecutive availability

May 26 2026 - August 21 2026
June 22 2026 - September 18 2026

Ability to relocate to Pittsburgh PA

What you can expect

Close support from your mentor and your team
Working on features and projects that will have real impact for our learners and internal users
A fun mission-driven environment where youll have lots of opportunities to grow as an engineer and make meaningful connections with your colleagues
Past Projects include:
- Developing a GPT-4 chat interface for one of our internal tools to streamline content creation
- Integrating our A/B testing framework with our observability stack to flag experiments that introduce errors
- Spanish audio lessons to improve listening comprehension
- Crafting new lessons to teach Coordinates in our Math course
- Porting large features to new platforms (iOS Android web)
- Dashboards and tooling for site reliability insights
- Crafting new microservices from scratch

Why youll love working here

Language learning opportunities
Catered in-house lunches breakfast and dinner options
Company-wide Hackathon
PTO and company holidays
Frequent company-wide dinners monthly celebrations social clubs and so much more!

We invest in and support our Duos!

Hourly Range for this internship is:

$50$52 USD

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.

By applying for this position your data will be processed as per theDuolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.

Required Experience:

Intern

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. But weve got more left to do and thats where you come in!Duolingo is the most popular language-learning application in the world with over 500 million users and over half a billion exercises com...