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Duolingo

Senior Android Engineer

🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, PA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $178K - $300K

💻 Software Engineering

🗓️ October 20th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Duolingo is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to develop and maintain core features of the Duolingo learning app, focusing on short-form lessons that enhance user engagement and learning effectiveness. The role involves collaborating with product design and backend teams, mentoring junior engineers, and driving technical solutions using Kotlin.

Highlights
  • Develop and maintain native Android application features using Kotlin
  • Collaborate closely with product design and backend teams on software projects
  • Mentor junior engineers and guide technical direction within the team
  • Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Strong experience in Kotlin programming on Android platforms
  • Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Preferred: Experience building reactive Android apps and designing clean, maintainable APIs
  • Preferred: Writing unit tests and producing testable code
  • Salary range from $177,700 to $300,000 USD, excluding equity and benefits
  • Work contributes to educational experiences for over half a billion global learners

Senior Android Engineer Full Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful. 

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

About the role
Short Form Experience Team:
As an Android engineer on the Short Form Experience Team, you'll build features that make up the core of the learning experience on Duolingo. Our short-form lessons are where learners spend the majority of their time on the app, and our team's mission is to make these sessions more effective and engaging. You'll work on adding new exercises that support our learners in practicing skills like recall and production in bite-sized formats, as well as creating other ways to help learners build foundational skills in a new language. We're looking for engineers who are passionate about improving how we teach
 
You will...
  • Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects
  • Develop, release, and maintain native Android application features in Kotlin
  • Mentor and set technical direction for junior engineers on the team

You have...
  • A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • Programming experience in Kotlin on Android
  • The ability to communicate technical issues effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders
 
Exceptional candidates will have...
  • Strong programming experience building reactive Android apps
  • Demonstrated self-direction, with a desire both to learn new techniques and mentor others
  • Experience designing clean and maintainable APIs
  • Experience writing unit tests and testable code
 
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.

Salary Range: 
$177,700—$300,000 USD

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.

Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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