Overview
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 educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun. Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world. Read our blog to learn more. 🧠 What you'll do... Contribute to full-stack software projects by developing, testing, and maintaining features and services. Develop, release, and maintain services and/or infrastructure Lead individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables Contribute to code
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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 educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
🧠 What you'll do...
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Contribute to full-stack software projects by developing, testing, and maintaining features and services.
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Develop, release, and maintain services and/or infrastructure
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Lead individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
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Contribute to code reviews and collaborate across teams to ensure quality and scalability
✅ What we're looking for...
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Graduating December 2027 - August 2028
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Pursuing a B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (e.g. math, physics or data science)
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Dedication to our mission of universally available education
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Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, Python, Kotlin or Swift.
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12 weeks of consecutive availability
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May 24, 2027 - August 13, 2027
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June 14, 2027 - September 3, 2027
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Deadline to apply: September 30, 2026
⭐ What you can expect...
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Close support from your mentor and your team
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Working on features and projects that will have real impact for our learners and internal users
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A fun, mission-driven environment, where you’ll have lots of opportunities to grow as an engineer and make meaningful connections with your colleagues
👀 Past projects include...
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Developing a GPT-4 chat interface for one of our internal tools to streamline content creation
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Integrating our A/B testing framework with our observability stack to flag experiments that introduce errors
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Spanish audio lessons to improve listening comprehension
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Crafting new lessons to teach Coordinates in our Math course
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Porting large features to new platforms (iOS, Android, web)
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Dashboards and tooling for site reliability insights
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Crafting new microservices from scratch
❤️ Why you'll love working here...
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Language learning opportunities
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Catered in-house lunches, and breakfast and dinner options
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Company-wide Hackathon
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PTO and company holidays
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Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!
Connect with your recruiter on the benefits for interns at Duolingo!
Hourly Range for this internship is:
$54—$56 USD
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