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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Back-End Engineer - **Company:** Preply Inc. - **Location:** Barcelona, Spain - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), A/B Testing, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Architectural Patterns, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), Node.Js, Systems Development Life Cycle, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Web Applications, Express.js, Backend, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines, Golang, Programming Languages - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-back-end-engineer-preply-com-8126225 ## About the Role * A great collaborator with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Minimum B2 English level; * Willingness to be on-call for your squad (1 week every 5 weeks). ## Description Join Preply's Teams and help us power people's progress through life-changing learning experiences. We're on a mission to combine the magic of the best tutors with cutting-edge AI to create personalized journeys that keep learners motivated and inspired. Together, we'll transform how students expand their vocabulary, master conversational fluency, and deepen comprehension - unlocking their full potential and sparking a lifelong love for learning. Are you ready to make an impact? Let's redefine education! The Preply Engineering Team provides the tools to help unlock human potential through learning. We implement A/B tests to prove the value of our initiatives and improve our product based on data and students and tutors feedback. As part of our commitment to ensuring high-quality products, we prioritize monitoring and metrics analysis to identify areas for optimization and ensure our services are performing at their best. We are tech-agnostic, meaning we are open to considering candidates with diverse technology backgrounds, such as Java/Spring, Node.js/Express.js, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Scala/Play, PHP, or Golang. While Python is our primary programming language, prior experience with it is not mandatory. What truly matters is your enthusiasm for learning Python and your ability to adapt quickly to using it for product development. At Preply, we release our product 50-60 times per day by leveraging top-notch CI/CD processes. As a fast-growing company we have diverse technical challenges (sometimes we even write about them on our Engineering Blog) that will allow you to develop your skills at scale. We've reached 90%+ adoption of AI coding tools across engineering, and we're now moving towards more autonomous, AI-Augmented development at scale. At Preply, engineers have direct access to the best tools available, with the freedom to use them fully and experiment as they build What you'll be doing You will work in a cross-functional team alongside the Product Manager, Product Designer, UX Writers, Data Analytics, Technical Leads, Engineers and other cross-functional team members to deliver engaging features through A/B tests and build top-notch products, including, but not limited to: * Develop and own backend features using Python/Django, supporting the creation of new backend services as well as design, create, and/or troubleshoot integrations with third-party vendors. * Think beyond the code and about our customers, understand their needs and define solutions with the team; * Balance short-term speed of development with the long-term technical quality of our systems; * As a Senior Engineer, you will leverage your experience to guide the team in making informed technical decisions, such as continuous improvement of best practices (test culture, code reviews, monitoring and scalability of our tools)., * Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms); * Familiar and willing to support small JS/TS tasks when needed; * Expertise in troubleshooting issues, identifying the root cause, mitigating it, and adding setting up safeguards to prevent future issues; * Deep, hands-on expertise in AI tools, especially in agentic AI SDLC * High level of self-organization, ownership, and responsibility ## Related Videos - [Meet Your New BFF: Backend to Frontend without the Duct Tape](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/682-meet-your-new-bff-backend-to-frontend-without-the-duct-tape) - [Coffee with Developers: David Heinemeier Hansson](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/875-coffee-with-developers-david-heinemeier-hansson) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Stop using Node.js like in 2020! 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