Staff Back-end Engineer

The role

You will shape technical strategy and drive execution as a high-impact individual contributor. You will lead architecture and platform evolution, raise engineering excellence, and act as a multiplier by mentoring engineers across the organization.

What you will do

• Shape technical strategy and drive execution
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to define engineering strategy and technical roadmap
• Lead end-to-end strategic initiatives from ideation to delivery
• Act as a key architect for the future state of systems
• Evolve core services into a scalable, reliable platform
• Improve developer experience and increase team productivity
• Champion high engineering standards through RFCs, post-mortems, and quality frameworks
• Mentor and influence Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, and Engineering Managers
• Contribute to hiring
• Own critical technical and strategic decisions including 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 through to delivery and operational stability
• Excellent communicator able to articulate technical vision and business value
• Ability to influence without relying on formal authority
• Product-minded approach to engineering
• Ability to move fluidly between feature development, system design, and process improvements
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Experience raising the bar across teams through mentoring and shaping engineering culture
• Ability to thrive in 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
• Learning & Development budget
• Time off for self-development
• Competitive financial package with equity
• Leave allowance
• Health insurance
• Access to free mental health support platforms

About the company

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