Senior Android Engineer

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

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.

You Will...

• Represent the team in architectural discussions and stakeholder conversations, serving as a bridge between Client Platform and Product feature teams
• Work within our Client Platform area to create and maintain the foundational building blocks of our application infrastructure
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence and mentor engineers of all experience levels
• Explore, prototype, and implement improvements to our existing application architecture to enable engineers to build stable, performant, and well-tested product features

You Have...

• Strong Android software engineering experience, developing scalable production software and an excellent command of engineering fundamentals
• Deep expertise in Kotlin and coroutines concurrency primitives
• Proficiency in native Android development using standard tools and frameworks

Exceptional Candidates Will Have...

• Knowledge of Android SDK performance tools and optimization techniques
• Experience developing and leading long-term technical strategy
• Deep understanding of testing best practices
• Working knowledge of modern AI tooling

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—$300,000 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.

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