Duolingo
Software Engineer, 2025 Recent Graduate
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, PA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $123K - $200K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ September 16th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Contribute to developing, testing, and maintaining full-stack software features and services
- Lead project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables individually
- Engage in code reviews and cross-team collaboration to ensure high quality and scalable solutions
- Programming experience in Java, Python, Kotlin, or Swift (0-1 years)
- Required education: B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or related technical fields (math, physics, data science)
- Graduates from Spring 2024 to Spring 2025 eligible
- Must be able to start and relocate by December 2025
- Salary range between $123,300 and $200,100 USD, with equity and benefits included
- Works within the Engineering division
- Focuses on supporting Duolingo's mission to provide universally available education to over half a billion learners
Software Engineer, 2025 Recent Graduate Full Description
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Itâs a big mission, and thatâs where you come in!
At Duolingo, youâll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. Youâll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds â while doing work thatâs both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role
You will...
- Contribute to full-stack software projects by developing, testing, and maintaining features and services.
- Develop, release, and maintain services and/or infrastructure
- Lead individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Contribute to code reviews and collaborate across teams to ensure quality and scalability
You have...
- Graduated between Spring 2024 - Spring 2025
- Graduated with a B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or related technical field (i.e. math, physics or data science)
- 0-1 years of experience programming in one or more of the following languages: Java, Python, Kotlin or Swift.
- Dedication to our mission of universally available education
- Ability to start and relocate by December 2025
Exceptional candidates will have...
- A GPA of 3.5+
- A Duolingo streak
Why you'll love working here...
- Language learning opportunities
- Catered in-house lunches and breakfast
- Company-wide Hackathon
- PTO and company holidays
- Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!
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.
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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