Staff Back-end Engineer

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The role

At Preply, being a Staff Engineer is about multiplying impact beyond a single team. You will operate at both a tribe and organizational level, helping define what problems matter, align teams around them, and drive solutions across the entire organization. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leadership to shape our technical direction and raise the bar for how we build and scale.

What you will do

You’ll be joining one of our Product Tribes — Learning or Monetization

In Learning, you’ll help build the next generation of AI-powered, personalized learning experiences for millions of users.
In Monetization, you’ll work on high-impact systems like payments, subscriptions, and bookings — directly influencing revenue, conversion, and the future of how tutors earn on the platform.

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Staff Back-end Engineer

Preply, London

Preply has this job in 2 other places

The role

What you will do

You’ll be joining one of our Product Tribes — Learning or Monetization

In Learning, you’ll help build the next generation of AI-powered, personalized learning experiences for millions of users.
In Monetization, you’ll work on high-impact systems like payments, subscriptions, and bookings — directly influencing revenue, conversion, and the future of how tutors earn on the platform.

What you need

Strong engineering foundations & system thinking. You have a solid background in software engineering and architecture, with experience designing and evolving large-scale systems. You’re able to derive technical strategy from business goals and understand how APIs, services, and data flows translate into real user impact.
Hands-on, strategic mindset. You connect high-level strategy with execution. You’re comfortable diving into code, building proofs of concept, and iterating quickly with teams to validate ideas.
End-to-end ownership. You take ownership from ambiguous problem definition through to delivery, launch, and operational stability, with a clear focus on measurable outcomes.
Ability to influence and align. You’re an excellent communicator, able to articulate technical vision, trade-offs, and business value to engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders. You influence without relying on formal authority and help align multiple teams toward shared goals.
Product-minded engineering. You approach engineering with a strong product lens - making thoughtful trade-offs and connecting technical decisions to user experience and business impact.
Comfort operating across domains. You’re able to move fluidly between different types of work - new feature development, system design, architecture evolution, migrations, and process improvements.
Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills. You’re analytical and creative in your approach, able to explore multiple solutions, evaluate trade-offs, and make pragmatic decisions under uncertainty.
Driving engineering excellence. You have experience raising the bar across teams — mentoring senior engineers, influencing tech leads, contributing to hiring, and shaping engineering culture through practices like RFCs, post-mortems, and quality frameworks.
Comfort in evolving environments. You thrive in environments that are changing and growing, and are able to adapt as priorities and context evolve.
AI Expertise: You're a forefront user of Agentic AI. You're able to bring hands on experience and start influencing the team beyond code generation; reserving judgment for architecture, business logic, and security, using AI as a thought partner and able to set up quality gates and safety nets to enhance existing engineering workflows and propose AI-native alternatives.

Staff Back-end Engineer

The role

What you will do

You’ll be joining one of our Product Tribes — Learning or Monetization

Staff Back-end Engineer

The role

What you will do

You’ll be joining one of our Product Tribes — Learning or Monetization

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