
At Preply, we are powering people's progress. We create life-changing learning experiences by helping people find the magic of the best tutors, a personalized journey, and the motivation that helps…

At Preply, we are powering people's progress. We create life-changing learning experiences by helping people find the magic of the best tutors, a personalized journey, and the motivation that helps…
Core product: Global online marketplace connecting learners with live tutors for language learning
Scale: 90,000+ tutors teaching learners in 175+ countries; 700+ employees
Recent funding: Raised $150M Series D (Jan 2026) led by WestCap; ~ $299M total after round
Valuation: Reached unicorn status (~$1.2B) after Series D
Language learning and online tutoring marketplace
2012
Technology, Information and Internet
$1.3M
$35M
Extended to $120M (equity and debt)
$150M
Valued the company at about $1.2B
“Backed by institutional investors including WestCap, Horizon Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Owl Ventures, Full In Partners”
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We power people’s progress. At Preply, we’re all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it’s creating real impact.
We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we’re only getting started. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.
Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.
Meet the team! The Platform Tribe at Preply brings together teams responsible for the internal foundations that enable engineers to build, deploy, and operate Preply reliably and at scale. Today, we have around 200 engineers at Preply, with plans to grow the team by another 100 engineers this year, making the Platform Tribe a critical enabler of our next phase of growth.
As the first Platform Product Manager, you will own internal platform products that reduce developer friction, improve reliability, and increase delivery speed while bringing a product mindset to platform capabilities.
The role focuses on defining and evolving paved paths used by engineering teams, translating engineering constraints into clear product decisions, and measuring and reducing developer friction. You will also drive the adoption of platform capabilities and navigate hard trade-offs between flexibility and standardization.
What you’ll be doing:
What you need to succeed:
Why you’ll love it at Preply:
Our Principles
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.
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Strong product thinking combined with technical literacy in software engineering, developer tooling, or systems.
Experience working with highly technical internal products (platforms, tooling, infra, or developer-facing systems).
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and conflicting priorities.
Proven ability to challenge priorities and drive alignment across internal stakeholders.
A bias for leverage, defaults, and standards, grounded in the belief that standardization unlocks creativity.
Solid conceptual understanding of/familiarity with:
Cloud platforms and infrastructure;
Modern distributed systems;
Trade-offs between Reliability vs velocity, Abstraction vs flexibility, Standardization vs team autonomy;
SLOs, DORA metrics, and cost efficiency metrics.
Ability to review and challenge technical RFCs and architecture proposals at a conceptual, outcome-oriented level.
Nice-to-have: prior hands-on experience as a software engineer or Engineering Manager before transitioning into Product.