Senior Software Engineer
At a glance
Highlights
- large scope projects
- mentorship with world-class minds
- impact on half a billion learners
- innovative solutions to complex technical problems
Why this role might suit you
The role offers senior engineers the chance to shape growth in a high-impact market, work on scalable Android products, and collaborate with world-class teams while contributing to education for hundreds of millions of learners.
Skills
About the role
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role...
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Android) to join the India Growth team. Your role will be to rapidly our user base in India by delivering product features. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape growth strategies, identify and resolve retention and engagement problems for our learners in India who are mainly learning English. Join us to make a significant impact on Duolingo’s key business metric DAU in one of our most important markets.
🧠 You will...
Quickly develop and maintain native Android application features in Kotlin
Collaborate on software projects with product manager
Perform experiment analysis on features and find opportunities for optimization
✅ You have...
A minimum of 5 years of programming experience building reactive Android apps in Kotlin
Experience in developing world-class apps with stability, performance, and scalability in mind
The ability to communicate technical issues effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders
A desire to make the world a better place through technology and education
Ability to apply user insights, data, and statistical analyses to inform decisions
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Ability to work from or relocate to Bangalore, India.
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