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! We’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. In our Learning Teams , that means building the next generation of personalized, AI-enabled, media-rich experiences for learners and tutors around the world. If you care deeply about impact, quality, technology and culture – this is your chance to lead a part of it.

As a Staff Engineer in the Learning Teams , you will lead some of the most complex and strategic engineering initiatives at Preply. You will define and drive technical roadmaps and architecture, collaborate across product, engineering and business stakeholders, and influence our platform at scale. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad scope and strong impact – you will help shape how we build, ship and evolve our learning experiences globally.

What you’ll be doing

• Shape, drive, and co-own the Learning Teams’s engineering strategy and own technical roadmap, partnering with Engineering and Product Leadership s to align initiatives, priorities and dependencies.
• Lead end-to-end strategic initiatives and innovations, translating high-level product vision into technical execution, align scope and milestones and ship iteratively with measurable outcomes.
• Evolve architecture and core services into a scalable, reliable platform, defining target states, drive deprecations and migrations, and uphold technical excellence (availability, performance, cost).
• Raise engineering practices and developer experience, driving RFCs, post-mortems, quality frameworks (evaluations, instrumentation), identifying bottlenecks and driving initiatives that reduce toil and increase productivity across team

What you'll bring

• Strong foundation in software engineering and architecture; comfortable designing and evolving large-scale systems and deriving technical strategy from business objectives.

Why you’ll love it at Preply:

• An open, collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture;
• A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com, Learning & Development budget, and time off for your self-development;
• A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance, and health insurance;
• Not in Barcelona? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub;
• Access to free mental health support platforms;
• Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain to promote and support well-being and physical health;
• The opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!).

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.