Preply

Senior Platform Software Engineer

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10 months ago
Kyiv, UkraineSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent recurring problems.
  • Improve platform scalability, observability, alerting, and reliability.
  • Build platform tooling and core services that improve developer productivity and accelerate software delivery.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
  • Collaborate with product teams on technical issues and new system designs.
  • Apply FinOps practices and participate in the team’s paid on-call rotation.
  • Share knowledge and contribute to the technical execution and evolution of the Platform Tribe.

Requirements

  • Approximately 8 years of experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems.
  • Proficient software engineering skills, with Python preferred.
  • Experience with at least one major public cloud and its services and infrastructure, preferably AWS.
  • Experience implementing observability and alerting.
  • Hands-on experience using agentic AI to improve engineering workflows, establish quality gates and safety nets, and propose AI-native alternatives while applying judgment to architecture, business logic, and security.
  • Willingness to participate in paid on-call rotations.
  • Business orientation, a data-driven approach, strong communication skills, and minimum C1 English proficiency.

Benefits

  • Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com.
  • Learning and Development budget, including time off for self-development.
  • Competitive financial package with equity and leave allowance.
  • Opportunity to impact learners and tutors across more than 175 countries.
  • Open, collaborative, dynamic, diverse, and inclusive culture.

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About Preply

10,000+ employees

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.

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