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

• 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; • As a Senior Engineer, you will 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 adding 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).

🏖️ Benefits

• Open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture. • Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com. • Learning & Development budget, including time off for your self-development. • Competitive financial package with equity, and leave allowance. • Opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors from over 175 countries through language learning and teaching.