Senior II Platform Software Engineer
Job in
Greater London, London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK
Listed on 2026-05-30
Listing for:
Preply
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-05-30
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Cloud Engineer - Software, Software Engineer, DevOps, Backend Developer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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 Fin Ops practices.
- Participate in on‑call rotation across the team.
- 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.
- Open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture.
- Generous monthly allowance for lessons on
- 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.
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.
#J-18808-LjbffrPosition Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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