Senior Android Engineer, Client Platform - Application Stability and Performance

EngineersOfAI; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo seeks an experienced Android engineer for the Application Stability and Performance team to own stability, memory usage, and performance of the Android Learning app used by millions of learners.

You will lead architectural improvements, enhance tracing and benchmarking tooling, and collaborate with Client Platform and Product teams to translate performance data into concrete improvements, while mentoring colleagues across experience levels.

Qualifications

• Shipped large Android applications with strong stability focus.
• Experience identifying root causes of ANRs, memory leaks and crashes.
• Strong Kotlin skills with coroutines, Jetpack Compose, and modern patterns.
• Experience optimizing startup, memory, and network usage on low-memory devices.
• Familiarity with tracing and crash observability tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural initiatives to fix the slowest parts of the app, from startup to critical learning flows.
• Own and evolve performance tooling with tracing, benchmarking, and automated regression detection.
• Bridge between Client Platform and Product teams to act on performance data.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of performance excellence.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Coroutines

Jetpack Compose

Performance optimization

Crashes ANRs analysis

Tools

AndroidX Tracing Library

Perfetto

Sentry

Android Vitals

Job description

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.

You will...

• 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

Salary Range:

$182,800—$247,300 USD

Benefits:

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Accommodations:

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