Meet the Team

The Preply Engineering Team provides the tools to help unlock human potential through learning.

At Preply, we build scalable and reliable applications using Python/Django, with a strong focus on data, A/B testing, and feedback from students and tutors to guide our decisions. We prioritize product quality through robust monitoring, metrics analysis, and continuous optimization. Thanks to our advanced CI/CD processes, we release code 50–60 times per day. As a fast-growing company, we face a wide range of technical challenges, giving our engineers plenty of opportunities to grow and make an impact, some of which we even share on our Engineering Blog.

We’re looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to join our Platform Tribe, which drives and scales Preply’s engineering platform, with a focus on Developer Experience, CI/CD, and DevOps. This is a key, cross-cutting role at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead and grow one to two high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Build reusable tools, abstractions, and self-service capabilities to make software engineering at Preply faster, safer, and more reliable.
• Coach and develop engineers through regular feedback, mentorship, and career growth opportunities, with a focus on creating an inclusive and collaborative environment.
• Define and drive the long-term vision and strategy for the teams, ensuring alignment with company goals and product direction.
• Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities in collaboration with Engineering, Product, Data, and Design, ensuring teams are focused on the most valuable initiatives.
• Own execution and delivery, ensuring technical quality, reliability, and timely outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership: guide system design and architectural decisions, help navigate trade-offs, and remove technical blockers.
• Champion engineering best practices, from code quality to scalable processes and tech stack evolution.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across the business to amplify impact and ensure alignment on priorities and outcomes.

What you need to succeed

• Proven experience leading teams in designing and scaling development lifecycle infrastructure in production.
• Strong background in software engineering, system architecture, infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps.
• Proven experience influencing senior engineering leaders, aligning across multiple product teams, and managing roadmaps of distributed stakeholders.
• People-centric approach and team building skills: We’re looking for someone passionate about building strong, results-oriented teams and achieving impact through effective team leadership.
• Provide technical expertise: Driving engineering best practices, adoption of tools and alignment with architectural standards.
• Results-oriented: Drive performance by motivating the team to set and achieve ambitious, business-focused, measurable goals.
• Ethical leadership: Lead the team by example, demonstrating unwavering commitment to ethical behavior and integrity. Model integrity and fairness, and instill a culture that values honesty, transparency, and ethical behavior in all engineering work.

Why you’ll love it at Preply:

• An 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.
• Opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors from over 175 countries through language learning and teaching.

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Our Principles

• Care to change the world - We are passionate about our work and care deeply about its impact to be life changing.
• We do it for learners - For both Preply and tutors, learners are why we do what we do. Every day we focus on empowering tutors to deliver an exceptional learning experience.
• Keep perfecting - To create an outstanding customer experience, we focus on simplicity, smoothness, and enjoyment, continually perfecting it as every detail matters.
• Now is the time - In a fast-paced world, it matters how quickly we act. Now is the time to make great things happen.
• Disciplined execution - What makes us disciplined is the excellence in our execution. We set clear goals, focus on what matters, and utilize our resources efficiently.
• Dive deep - We leverage business acumen and curiosity to investigate disparities between numbers and stories, unlocking meaningful insights to guide our decisions.
• Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe today's best performance becomes tomorrow's starting point. We humbly embrace feedback and learn from setbacks.
• Raise the bar - We raise our performance standards continuously, alongside each new hire and promotion. We build diverse and high-performing teams that can make a real difference.
• Challenge, disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication, even when we don’t fully agree. We speak our minds, challenge when necessary, and fully commit to decisions once made.
• One Preply - We prioritize collaboration, inclusion, and the success of our team over personal ambitions. Together, we support and celebrate each other's progress.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Preply.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. That means that Preply will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status.