ApplySarthiSoftware Engineer, Intern
Duolingo
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Practise the Software Engineer, Intern at Duolingo interview free →Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
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🧠 What you'll do...
- 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
✅ What we're looking for...
- Graduating December 2027 - August 2028
- Pursuing a B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (e.g. math, physics or data science)
- Dedication to our mission of universally available education
- Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, Python, Kotlin, or Swift.
- 12 weeks of consecutive availability
- May 24, 2027 - August 13, 2027
- June 14, 2027 - September 3, 2027
- Deadline to apply: September 30, 2026
⭐ What you can expect...
- Close support from your mentor and your team
- Working on features and projects that will have real impact for our learners and internal users
- A fun, mission-driven environment, where you’ll have lots of opportunities to grow as an engineer and make meaningful connections with your colleagues
👀 Past projects include...
- Developing a GPT-4 chat interface for one of our internal tools to streamline content creation
- Integrating our A/B testing framework with our observability stack to flag experiments that introduce errors
- Spanish audio lessons to improve listening comprehension
- Crafting new lessons to teach Coordinates in our Math course
- Porting large features to new platforms (iOS, Android, web)
- Dashboards and tooling for site reliability insights
- Crafting new microservices from scratch
❤️ Why you'll love working here...
- Language learning opportunities
- Catered in-house lunches, and breakfast and dinner options
- Company-wide Hackathon
- PTO and company holidays
- Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!
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Equal Employment Opportunity: 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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