Senior Back-End Engineer

About the Position

Senior Back-End Engineer

At Preply, we’re 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 it’s creating real impact. We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we’re only getting started.

Join Preply’s Engineering Team and help us power people’s progress through life-changing learning experiences. We’re on a mission to combine the magic of the best tutors with cutting-edge AI to create personalized journeys that keep learners motivated and inspired.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own backend features using Python/Django, supporting the creation of new backend services as well as design, create, and/or troubleshoot integrations with third-party vendors.
• Think beyond the code and about our customers, understand their needs, and define solutions with the team.
• Balance short-term speed of development with the long-term technical quality of our systems.
• Leverage your experience to guide the team in making informed technical decisions, such as continuous improvement of best practices (test culture, code reviews, monitoring, and scalability of our tools).

Requirements

• Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
• Familiar and willing to support small JS/TS tasks when needed.
• Expertise in troubleshooting issues, identifying the root cause, mitigating it, and setting up safeguards to prevent future issues.
• High level of self-organization, ownership, and responsibility.
• A great collaborator with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Minimum B2 English level.
• Willingness to be on-call for your squad (1 week every 5 weeks).

Nice to Have

• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Familiarity with high-scale web application architecture.

We Offer

• An open, collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture.
• A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com, 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!).

About the Company

Preply.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. That means that 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.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Preply is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. That means that 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.