About the company
At Preply, we’re all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it’s creating real impact.
We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we’re only getting started.
Responsibilities
- Own the availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent problems recurrence.
- Improve the system’s scalability, observability, and alerting.
- Build tooling to improve our platform and accelerate the overall software development.
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
- Collaborate with product teams to help them tackle technical issues and design new systems.
- Strengthen credibility with the quality of the team's technical execution.
- Follow the best FinOps practices.
- Participate in on-call rotation across the team.
Requirements
- Extensive experience (~8 years) in designing, building, maintaining and troubleshooting high traffic distributed systems.
- AI Expertise: You're a forefront user of Agentic AI. You're able to bring hands-on experience and start influencing the team beyond code generation; reserving judgment for architecture, business logic, and security, using AI as a thought partner and being able to set up quality gates and safety nets to enhance existing engineering workflows and propose AI-native alternatives.
- Proficient software engineering skills (Python preferred).
- Experience with at least one major public cloud, its services and infrastructure (preferably AWS).
- Experience in implementing observability and alerting.
- Willingness to participate on paid on-call rotations.
- Business-orientation and data-driven approach.
- Strong communication skills. Minimum C1 English level.
Conditions
- Open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture.
- Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com.
- Learning & Development budget, including time off for your self-development.
- Competitive financial package with equity, and leave allowance.
- Opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors from over 175 countries through language learning and teaching.