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

Below you can find more information about the teams we're hiring for:

Short Form Experience Team

As an Android engineer on the Short Form Experience Team, you'll build features that make up the core of the learning experience on Duolingo. Our short-form lessons are where learners spend the majority of their time on the app, and our team's mission is to make these sessions more effective and engaging. You'll work on adding new exercises that support our learners in practicing skills like recall and production in bite-sized formats, as well as creating other ways to help learners build foundational skills in a new language.

We're looking for engineers who are passionate about improving how we teach

Subscription Crossgrades Team

As an Android engineer on the Subscription Crossgrades Team, you'll build features that help learners discover and subscribe to the Duolingo plan that best fits their goals. Our team's mission is to make subscription purchases convenient, compelling, and clear, so that learners can unlock Duolingo's most powerful tools for long-term success. You'll work on improving how we present subscription options across the app, highlight the value of our offerings, and craft delightful, high-impact conversion moments.

We're looking for engineers who are passionate about creating seamless, user-centered purchase flows and subscription experiences.

You will...

• Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects
• Develop, release, and maintain native Android application features in Kotlin
• Mentor and set technical direction for junior engineers on the team

You have...

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Programming experience in Kotlin on Android
• The ability to communicate technical issues effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Exceptional candidates will have...

• Strong programming experience building reactive Android apps
• Demonstrated self‐direction, with a desire both to learn new techniques and mentor others
• Experience designing clean and maintainable APIs
• Experience writing unit tests and testable code

We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.

This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.

Salary Range: $177,700 — $240,400 USD

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.

Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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