Software Engineer, Intern

About the job

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 learners and over half a billion exercises completed daily. Beyond our core language-learning product, we have also entered into literacy with Duolingo ABC , math with Duolingo Math , and language certification with the Duolingo English Test .
We are passionate about educating our users, making data-driven 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:

• Spanish audio lessons, to improve listening comprehension

• 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

• Creating new microservices from scratch

What We’re Looking For…

• Graduating in Spring 2024, 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

Why you’ll love working here…

• Language-learning opportunities

• In-house breakfast and lunch options

• Company-wide Hackathon

• Generous paid time off and company holidays

• Frequent team dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!

• Dedicated mentorship and colleagues who are both competent and caring

• Find out more by visiting our blog

• EEOC + Reasonable accommodation info automatically included in all Greenhouse job postings

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.
We aim to return to office, and as such are requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received any booster doses as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here .