11 months ago
Kyiv, UkraineStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and co-own tribe engineering strategy and technical roadmaps with Engineering and Product leadership.
- Lead strategic initiatives from ideation through delivery, aligning scope and milestones and delivering measurable outcomes.
- Architect scalable, reliable platforms by defining target architectures, driving migrations and deprecations, and improving performance, availability, and cost efficiency.
- Improve engineering excellence and developer experience through RFCs, post-mortems, quality frameworks, instrumentation, and evaluations.
- Mentor Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, and Engineering Managers; contribute to hiring and raise the technical bar across the organization.
- Own critical technical decisions, including build-versus-buy choices and tooling and vendor evaluations.
- Remain hands-on with complex challenges, proofs of concept, system design, architecture evolution, and high-impact implementation work.
- Use Agentic AI as a thought partner while applying judgment to architecture, business logic, and security and establishing quality gates and safety nets.
Requirements
- Strong background in software engineering, architecture, and designing and evolving large-scale systems.
- Ability to translate business goals into technical strategy and understand the impact of APIs, services, and data flows.
- Hands-on experience connecting strategic direction with code, proofs of concept, and iterative execution.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from ambiguous problem definition through launch and operational stability.
- Ability to influence and align engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders without relying on formal authority.
- Product-minded approach with sound judgment around technical, user experience, and business trade-offs.
- Experience across feature development, system design, architecture evolution, migrations, and process improvement.
- Strong analytical, creative, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in uncertain environments.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers, influencing tech leads, contributing to hiring, and shaping engineering culture.
- Experience using Agentic AI beyond code generation, including setting up quality gates and safety nets for engineering workflows.
- Comfort working in changing and growing environments.
Benefits
- Open, collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture.
- Monthly allowance for Preply lessons, a Learning & Development budget, and time off for self-development.
- Competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance, and health insurance.
- Access to free mental health support platforms.
- Opportunity to support learners and tutors through language learning and teaching across 175 countries.
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About Preply
Preply builds an online marketplace that connects learners with human tutors for live language lessons, supported by AI tools. Consumers book 1:1 sessions and ongoing courses, while organizations use Preply Business for corporate language training; revenue comes from commissions and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and privately held, Preply operates globally with 100,000+ tutors teaching 90+ languages.