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Senior Android Engineer, Client Platform - Application Stability and Performance

Duolingo · Pittsburgh, PA · On-site

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About Duolingo

Learn languages by playing a game. It. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, NEA and USV.

About the role

As an Android engineer on our Application Stability and Performance team you’ll own the stability and performance of the Duolingo Android Learning app for millions of learners.

What they're looking for

  • Worked on and shipped large scale Android applications
  • Experience identifying the root cause and resolving ANRs, memory leaks, dropped frames, and complex crashes
  • Strong Kotlin skills and deep familiarity with coroutines, Jetpack Compose, and modern architecture patterns
  • Experience optimizing startup time, memory, and network usage for low-memory devices
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling difficult challenges
More about this role

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 finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems , running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

As an Android engineer on our Application Stability and Performance team you’ll own the stability and performance of the Duolingo Android Learning app for millions of learners.

This team builds the tooling other engineers depend on to keep the app performant like AI agent driven crash and memory analysis, coroutine system tracing, and Macrobenchmark suites that catch regressions before they ship. You'll also own the performance metrics that feed into our experiment...

Read the full posting on Duolingo's site ↗

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