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 global scale.

Every

Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters.

Joining

Preply means helping define the future of education at integral scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day. Our platform handles over 20bln requests per month, and we combine software engineering, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure to keep it reliable at scale while making it faster and easier for engineering teams to build on top of it.

Platform scalability: evolving the systems that support Preply as our product and engineering organisation grow.

Developer productivity: building core services and tooling that help engineers ship safely and quickly - we run 100+ successful production deployments every business day.

Efficient infrastructure: improving performance and reliability while making thoughtful FinOps trade-offs. We work in small teams with significant ownership, so you'll have a real say in architecture, technical decisions and how our platform evolves. We have diverse technical challenges that will allow you to develop your skills across the stack - sometimes we write about them in our Engineering Blog!

Please, also visit our Tech Radar and our YouTube channel to learn more about the technologies we use at Preply!

The Senior Platform Software

Engineer role in our SRE team combines software engineering practices with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems patterns,



storage systems and observability to deliver on a wide range of projects - ranging from tooling to core Platform services which serve production traffic. Own the availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent problems recurrence. Build tooling to improve our platform and accelerate the overall software development.

Strengthen credibility with the quality of the team's technical execution. reserving judgment for architecture, business logic, and security, using AI as a thought partner and being able to set up quality gates and safety nets to enhance existing engineering workflows and propose AI-native alternatives. Proficient software engineering skills (Python preferred).

Experience with at least one major public cloud, its services and infrastructure (preferably AWS). Business-orientation and data-driven approach. Minimum C1 English level. Why you'll love it at Preply 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.

📌 Senior Software Engineer, Production Technology (Barcelona)
🏢 Preply
📍 Barcelona