Senior Platform Software Engineer - Developer Platform

About the Position

Senior Platform Software Engineer - Developer Platform

Location

Barcelona, Spain

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

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About the Position

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. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.

Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.

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About the Team

The Platform Tribe builds and operates the platform that Preply engineers develop and deploy on, and that millions of learners and tutors rely on every day. Our platform handles over 20 billion requests per month, and we combine software engineering, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure to keep it reliable at scale while making it faster and easier for engineering teams to build on top of it.

As part of the Developer Platform team, you’ll focus on:

• CI/CD and testing: owning and evolving the systems and workflows that help engineers test, validate, and deploy code quickly and confidently.
• Developer experience and productivity: making it faster, simpler, and more enjoyable for engineers to build and ship high-quality software.
• Developer tooling and paved paths: building scalable tools and abstractions that reduce friction and enable teams to work autonomously.
• AI-native development: using AI and agentic workflows to rethink and improve how software is developed and shipped at Preply.

We work in small teams with significant ownership, so you’ll have a real say in architecture, technical decisions, and how our platform evolves.

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Responsibilities

As a Platform Software Engineer in the Developer Platform team, you'll build and operate the CI/CD systems, tooling, and platforms that let Preply engineers ship quickly and safely.

• Build and improve CI/CD systems, testing capabilities, and paved paths that enable engineers to ship quickly and safely.
• Own and evolve the developer journey from writing code through testing and deployment.
• Build internal platforms, services, and developer tooling to turn developer experience friction into scalable engineering solutions.
• Provide the infrastructure and paved paths that let both engineers and coding agents build, test, and ship autonomously.
• Use AI and agentic workflows to rethink and improve the software development lifecycle, and set up the quality gates and safety nets that keep them trustworthy.
• Operate what you build: take part in the team's support and incident rotation, and use data and developer feedback to measure and continuously improve the platform.
• Partner with engineering teams as the users of the platform, driving adoption of your tooling and aligning stakeholders across squads so changes land smoothly.

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Requirements

• CI/CD depth: strong hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD systems and pipelines at scale, including the reliability, performance, and cost trade-offs that come with them.
• Extensive experience (~8 years): designing and building complex backend software systems.
• Software engineering skills: including Python, which we use to build platform services, developer tooling, and automation. You do not need to be a Python-first backend engineer, but you should be productive in it.
• AI Expertise: You're a forefront user of Agentic AI. You're able to bring hands-on experience and start influencing the team beyond code generation; reserving judgment for architecture, business logic, and security, using AI as a thought partner and being able to set up quality gates and safety nets to enhance existing engineering workflows and propose AI-native alternatives.
• Experience building developer platforms, internal developer tooling, developer productivity, or developer experience solutions.
• Experience designing platforms and tooling for engineers as internal users, with a strong understanding of developer needs and workflows.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments and distributed systems.
• Business-orientation and data-driven approach.
• Strong communication skills. Minimum C1 English level.

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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.
• Not in Barcelona? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub.
• Access to free mental health support platforms.
• Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain to promote and support well-being and physical health.
• The opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!)

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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 today's best performance becomes tomorrow's 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 don’t 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 other's progress.

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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.