Senior Back-End Engineer

🕒 March 18

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Preply

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2012

📚 Education

🏪 Marketplace

👥 B2C

Education • Marketplace • B2C

Preply is an online education marketplace that connects learners with professional tutors for live, personalized 1-on-1 lessons across languages and other subjects. The platform offers thousands of vetted tutors, user reviews, mobile apps, and tools for scheduling and secure payments, plus plans for individuals and corporate language training. Preply focuses on tailored learning paths, flexible scheduling, and progress tracking to help students improve conversational and exam skills.

📋 Description

• Own and drive technical vision across squads • 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 • Scope and lead cross-functional initiatives involving design, data, product, security, and other engineering teams • Design and implement scalable backend systems, data pipelines, and integrations with third-party platforms • Mentor and coach junior and middle engineers across squads • Improve performance, tracking, monitoring, and reliability of our systems with an eye on long-term scalability • Collaborate closely with PMs, EMs, designers, and analysts to make data-informed, user-centered decisions • Champion engineering best practices: test automation, documentation, observability, and quality-first culture

🎯 Requirements

• Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms) • Proven experience leading complex, ambiguous, or greenfield projects end-to-end • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills (English level B2+) • Willingness to be on-call for your squad (1 week every 5 weeks)

🏖️ Benefits

• A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com • Learning & Development budget • Time off for self-development • A competitive financial package with equity • Leave allowance • Health insurance • Access to free mental health support platforms