Senior Android Engineer, Client Platform - Application Stability and Performance

Duolingo; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Senior Android Engineer for the Client Platform's Application Stability and Performance team. You will own the stability and performance of the Duolingo Android Learning app for millions of learners, building tooling for crash analysis, memory profiling, and regression detection while collaborating with product teams.

Lead initiatives to optimize startup time, memory and network usage, and mentor engineers across experience levels in a data-driven, quality-focused

Qualifications

• Experience shipping large-scale Android applications.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ownership of performance issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural initiatives to fix slow parts of the Android app.
• Own and evolve performance tooling with tracing, benchmarking, and automated regression detection.
• Bridge between Client Platform and Product feature teams on performance data.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of engineering excellence around performance.

Skills

Kotlin

Coroutines

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Senior Android Engineer, Client Platform - Application Stability and Performance

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.

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.

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 analyses and help ensure hundreds of concurrent experiments surface any performance issues or regressions.

• Lead architectural initiatives to fix the slowest parts of the app, from startup to critical learning flows
• Own and evolve our performance tooling with tracing, benchmarking, and automated regression detection
• Serve as a bridge between Client Platform and Product feature teams, helping them understand and act on the performance data we provide
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence around performance and mentor engineers of all experience levels

You have...

• 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

Exceptional candidates will have...

• Expertise in Android tracing tooling like the AndroidX Tracing Library and Perfetto
• Experience with crash observability tooling like Sentry and Android Vitals

Benefits: Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

Accommodations: 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 [e-mail].

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.

The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!

Salary Range:

$182,800 — $247,300 USD

AI in Hiring: Duolingo uses AI technology to assist in our hiring process. We want to be transparent about how we use this technology and your rights. We use Greenhouse Software's Talent Matching feature to assist with reviewing applications for the skills and experience we have decided are important for this role.

How it works:

• Talent Matching reviews your resume and responses to application questions to determine the extent to which your qualifications match the job requirements selected for this role. These requirements and their desired weighting are established by our recruiters in collaboration with hiring managers.
• All Talent Matching output is reviewed by our recruiting and hiring teams, who make the final decision on each application. Talent Matching does not automatically disposition any candidate or make hiring decisions.

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This role requires working from a Duolingo office four days per week.