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 general 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. 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. As part of the R&D; Automation team, you'll focus on: Agentic software development: building AI agents that automate and augment workflows across the entire software development lifecycle.

AI platforms and capabilities: creating reusable foundations, tools and integrations that allow agents to interact effectively with our codebases, engineering systems and internal knowledge.

Safe and reliable automation: designing the right verification, context and human-in-the-loop mechanisms so agentic workflows can be adopted with confidence. Design and build AI agents and the harness that power them using Python.



Build reusable agent capabilities, tools and integrations that connect AI systems with our engineering ecosystem and internal knowledge.

Develop agentic workflows across Engineering, Product, Design and Data, including coding, testing and code review, and across the broader software development lifecycle. Measure how agents are used and the value they create, using data and feedback to continuously improve them. Collaborate closely with engineers, designers, product, and data teams across Preply to understand their workflows, drive adoption and identify new opportunities for automation.

Extensive experience (~8 years) designing and building complex backend software systems. Strong software engineering skills with production experience using Python.

Experience integrating AI systems with APIs, MCPs, internal tools, codebases and other engineering systems.

A strong experimentation mindset: comfortable working with ambiguity, iterating quickly and using data and feedback to determine what works. Good understanding of distributed systems and the backend architecture required to operate AI-powered systems reliably. 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.

📌 Senior Platform Software Engineer - R&D Automation (Barcelona)
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📍 Barcelona