Senior Software Engineer, Backend
duolingoBrooklyn (NY)
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Posted today
duolingoBrooklyn (NY)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
Overview:
Join Duolingo’s Observability team to build instrumentation, telemetry, and dashboards that help engineers ship faster at scale. You will collaborate with product design and backend teams to develop, release, and maintain critical services and infrastructure. You’ll own project milestones and contribute to reliability initiatives that protect hundreds of millions of learners. This role offers meaningful impact through scalable observability and developer-experience improvements in a mission-driven environment.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects Develop, release, and maintain backend services and/or infrastructure Lead individual project priorities, milestones, and ensure shipping deadlines
Key requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field Strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design Experience programming in Java, Python, or Kotlin Solid understanding of one or more database technologies Collaboration Ownership and accountability Clear communication Java Python Kotlin
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