Senior Platform Software Engineer - R&D Automation

The role

You will build AI agents and agentic workflows to automate the software development lifecycle. This role involves designing reusable AI capabilities and integrating them with engineering systems using Python.

What you will do

• Design and build AI agents and the harness that power them using Python.
• Build reusable agent capabilities, tools and integrations.
• Develop agentic workflows across Engineering, Product, Design and Data.
• Experiment rapidly with new AI capabilities from proof of concept to scalable adoption.
• Design context, orchestration and verification mechanisms for agentic workflows.
• Measure agent usage and value created using data and feedback.
• Decide where AI adds value and where human judgment remains essential.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product, and data teams to drive automation adoption.

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience (~8 years) designing and building complex backend software systems.
• Strong software engineering skills with production experience using Python.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents, agentic workflows or platforms.
• Strong understanding of modern agentic AI patterns, including context management, tool use, orchestration and evaluation/verification.
• Experience integrating AI systems with APIs, MCPs, internal tools, codebases and other engineering systems.
• Experience taking new technical ideas from experimentation or proof of concept into robust, scalable solutions.
• A strong experimentation mindset.
• Good understanding of distributed systems and the backend architecture required to operate AI-powered systems reliably.
• Strong product thinking.
• Strong communication skills.
• Minimum C1 English level.

Benefits

• Open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture.
• Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com.
• Learning & Development budget, including time off for your self-development.
• Competitive financial package with equity, and leave allowance.

About the company

Preply is a category-defining company that helps people discover tutors and craft personalised learning journeys. It has reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D.