Staff Back-end Engineer

The role

You will act as a high-impact individual contributor to shape technical strategy and drive execution across a tribe or the organization. You will lead architecture evolution, raise engineering excellence, and mentor senior engineers within the Learning or Monetization product tribes.

What you will do

• Shape technical strategy and drive execution
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to define technical roadmaps
• Lead end-to-end strategic initiatives from ideation to delivery
• Act as a key architect for system evolution and scalable platforms
• Drive migrations and deprecations
• Improve developer experience and team productivity
• Champion high engineering standards through RFCs and post-mortems
• Mentor Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, and Engineering Managers
• Contribute to hiring
• Own critical technical decisions and build-vs-buy trade-offs

Required qualifications

• Solid background in software engineering and architecture
• Experience designing and evolving large-scale systems
• Ability to connect high-level strategy with execution
• Ability to take ownership from ambiguous problem definition to delivery
• Excellent communication skills to influence stakeholders
• Product-minded approach to engineering
• Ability to move between feature development, system design, and architecture
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing tech leads
• Ability to adapt to changing and growing environments
• Hands on experience as a forefront user of Agentic AI

Benefits

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

About the company

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