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Software Engineer, Intern

Pittsburgh, PA


Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. But we’ve got more left to do — and that's where you come in!


Duolingo is the most popular language-learning application in the world, with over 500 million users and over half a billion exercises completed daily. Beyond our core learning product, we have also entered into literacy with Duolingo ABC, English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test, and even Math.


We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!


What you’ll do...


  • Collaborate on full-stack software projects in collaboration with product design
  • Develop, release, and maintain services and/or infrastructure
  • Lead individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
  • Past Projects include:
  • Developing a GPT-4 chat interface for one of our internal tools to streamline content creation
  • Spanish audio lessons, to improve listening comprehension
  • Crafting new lessons to teach Coordinates in our Math course
  • Integrating our A/B testing framework with our observability stack to flag experiments that introduce errors
  • Adding pinyin to the Chinese course
  • Porting large features to new platforms (iOS, Android, web)
  • Filtering out bad ads
  • Dashboards and tooling for site reliability insights
  • Crafting new microservices from scratch


What we’re looking for…


  • Graduating in Spring 2025, or sooner
  • Pursuing a B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or related technical field (i.e. math, physics or data science)
  • Dedication to our mission of universally available education
  • 12 weeks of consecutive availability
  • Ability to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA


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


Why you’ll love working here…


  • Language learning opportunities
  • Catered in-house lunches and breakfast
  • Company-wide Hackathon
  • PTO and company holidays
  • Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!


We invest in and support our Duos! The hourly range for this internship is $50-$52. 



We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact your recruiter.


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.


By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.

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