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Duolingo · 2 days ago
Senior Backend Software Engineer
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$149K/yr - $275K/yr
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Responsibilities
Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects
Develop, release, and maintain backend services and/or infrastructure
Lead individual project priorities, milestones, and ensure we're always shipping
Qualification
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Required
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
Strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
Experience programming in Java, Python or Kotlin
Solid understanding of one or more database technologies
Preferred
Industry experience building high-traffic APIs using public cloud providers
Benefits
Equity
Duolingo’s world-class benefits
Company
Duolingo
Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages.
Founded in 2011
501-1,000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Duolingo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (22)
2022 (20)
2021 (21)
2020 (19)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$183.3MKey Investors
General AtlanticCapitalGDrive Capital
2021-12-09IPO· bmv:DUOL
2020-11-18Series H· $35M
2020-04-14Series G· $10M
Leadership Team
Luis von Ahn
CEO & Co-Founder
Severin Hacker
CTO & Co-founder
Recent News
2024-06-04
2024-05-28
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