Senior II Platform Software Engineer

Company: Preply
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Location: London
Job Description:

The Software Platform Engineer at Preply combines software engineering practices with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems patterns, storage systems and observability to deliver on a wide range of platforms and services in production.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Own the availability and performance of mission‑critical services and build automation to prevent problems recurrence.
  • Improve the system’s scalability, observability, and alerting.
  • Build tooling to improve our platform and accelerate the overall software development.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
  • Collaborate with product teams to help them tackle technical issues and design new systems.
  • Strengthen credibility with the quality of the team’s technical execution.
  • Follow the best FinOps practices.
  • Participate in on‑call rotation across the team.

What You Need To Succeed

  • Extensive experience (:8 years) in designing, building, maintaining and troubleshooting high traffic distributed systems.
  • Proficient software engineering skills. Strong coding experience in one or more programming languages (preferably Python).
  • Experience with at least one major public cloud, its services and infrastructure (preferably AWS).
  • Experience in implementing observability and alerting.
  • Willingness to participate on paid on‑call rotations.
  • Business‑orientation and data‑driven approach.
  • Nice to have: knowledge of modern web frameworks; SQL and relational DBs.
  • Strong communication skills. Minimum B2 English level.

Why you’ll love it at Preply

  • Open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture.
  • Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com.
  • Learning & Development budget, including time off for your self‑development.
  • Competitive financial package with equity, and leave allowance.
  • Opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors from over 175 countries through language learning and teaching.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Preply.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We consider all applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status.

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Posted: May 15th, 2026