Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Back-End Heavy

🕒 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 and designing, creating, and troubleshooting integrations with third-party vendors; • Develop frontend features in React/Typescript, launched in our A/B experimentation framework; • Take on the responsibility of writing services from initial concept to full-fledged deployment; • Leverage previous experience to implement and socialize current best practices in frontend and backend; • Our goal is not to deliver code but to deliver user value. Data-driven approaches and experimentation are its heartbeats. Together with the product, data, and UX teammates, the team is responsible for value delivery, analysis, ideation, and focus; • Design efficient system architectures that align with team goals, constraints and schedules; • Strike a balance between delivering fast results and maintaining high-quality, sustainable systems; • Embody a mindset of mastery by continuously seeking to improve your craft, delivering work of exceptional quality, and inspiring those around you to aim higher.

🎯 Requirements

• Full-Stack Expertise: This role is primarily backend-focused, with about 70-80% of the work on back-end development and 20-30% on the front-end, requiring solid backend expertise and well-rounded full-stack engineering skills; • Exposure to front-end tech: A good understanding of React, Typescript, HTML5, and CSS; • Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms); • Proactive Problem-Solving: You will be expected to face and solve challenges independently, both in the codebase and in our product initiatives; • High level of self-organization, ownership, and responsibility; • Communication Skills: Good at working with others and communicating effectively in English at a B2 level or higher; • 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

• 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