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. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at integral 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.You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leadership to shape our technical direction and raise the bar for how we build and scale.Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to define and co-own the tribe’s engineering strategy and technical roadmap. Lead architecture & platform evolution. Evolve core services into a scalable, reliable platform by defining target architectures, driving migrations and deprecations, and ensuring technical excellence across performance, availability, and cost efficiency, always balancing long-term vision with pragmatism.Raise engineering excellence & developer experience. Champion high engineering standards through RFCs, post-mortems, and quality frameworks (instrumentation, evaluations), ensuring we build the right things in the right way.Mentor and influence Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, and Engineering Managers, contribute to hiring,



and elevate the overall technical bar. Stay hands-on for the most complex and high-impact challenges, leading by example where it matters most.What you need to succeedStrong 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.You’re comfortable diving into code, building proofs of concept, and iterating quickly with teams to validate ideas. You’re an excellent communicator, able to articulate technical vision, trade-offs, and business value to engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders. 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.You’re able to move fluidly between different types of work - new feature development, system design, architecture evolution, migrations, and process improvements.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.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.Why you’ll love it at Preply:An open, collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture;com, Learning & Development budget, and time off for your self-development;A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance, and health insurance;We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub;We do it for learners - For both Preply and tutors, learners are why we do what we do. 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. Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe today's best performance becomes tomorrow's starting point. Raise the bar - We raise our performance standards continuously, alongside each new hire and promotion. Challenge, disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication, even when we don’t fully agree. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company.

📌 Staff Backend Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Preply
📍 Barcelona