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How Duolingo hires

Truth index
A 86/100
Median time to fill
45 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
57%
Reposted roles
0%

Duolingo scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 57% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 45 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 104 · green card filings: 19
  • United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)

Visa details by country

Overview

Duolingo is an American education technology company that makes the Duolingo app for learning languages, as well as courses in math, music and chess, built on short gamified lessons. Founded in 2011 and listed on Nasdaq, it earns money from Super and Max subscriptions, advertising and the Duolingo English Test, and is the most downloaded education app worldwide. The company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

News

News Duolingo Blog 1 month ago
How we created Chess Game Review: What's a key moment?
Take a look at how Game Review came to life-there's a lot more than meets the eye!
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News markets.businessinsider.com 2 months ago
Duolingo Invests in World-Class Motion Design with Acquisition of Animade
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Duolingo, Inc. (Nasdaq: DUOL), the world
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News markets.businessinsider.com 2 months ago
Duolingo Appoints Sallie Krawcheck to Board of Directors
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Duolingo, Inc. (Nasdaq: DUOL), the world
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News The Motley Fool 2 months ago
3 Things Investors Must Watch in Duolingo's Second-Quarter Earnings
Duolingo's second-quarter earnings will reveal more than just another set of financial results.
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News Android Authority 2 months ago
Duolingo users are fed up with random strangers cluttering their feeds
Duolingo users are furious over random strangers cluttering their activity feeds, forcing learners to block them just for a clean feed.
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News lingolingo.app 2 months ago
Section 1 Unit 1: Café Orders
Practice polite French café orders, including requests, thanks, and linking choices with et and ou.
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News lingolingo.app 2 months ago
Section 1 Unit 1: Café Orders
Practice polite French café orders, including requests, thanks, and linking choices with et and ou.
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News learnthroughstories.substack.com 3 months ago
I Tested 885 Duolingo Chess Puzzles. 24% Do Not Make Sense.
Thousands of beginners are failing puzzles that were never solvable.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Duolingo over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
59
Postings analysed
54
Stack modernity
90/100AI adopter
Languages
Python31%
Kotlin22%
SQL17%
Java15%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry6%
Jetpack Compose4%
StoreKit2%
Databases
BigQuery4%
Google BigQuery4%
MySQL4%
PostgreSQL4%
Cloud & platforms
AWS7%
Datadog6%
Grafana6%
Kubernetes6%
AI & ML
LLM11%
ChatGPT2%
GPT-42%
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Full Duolingo tech stack 59 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$247k
Typical range
$161k – $613k
Open positions
46
45 Jobs
Junior 6.7%
Middle 6.7%
Senior 48.9%
Staff 22.2%
Architect 15.6%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 3 $186k $161k – $207k
Middle 3 $175k $161k – $207k
Senior 22 $247k $193k – $355k
Staff 10 $247k $165k – $331k
Architect 7 $275k $189k – $613k
Highest paying role VP of Product, Growth and Monetization $613k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Duolingo By role, level and city, against the market · 46 jobs with pay

People

Severin Hacker
Director, Executive Officer
Luis von Ahn
Executive Officer, Director
Stephen Chen
Executive Officer
Matt Skaruppa
Executive Officer
Andrew Moore
Director
Brad Burnham
Director
Gillian Munson
Director
Bing Gordon
Director
Laela Sturdy
Director
Jim Shelton
Director
Sara Clemens
Director
Amy Bohutinsky
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Growth

Hiring Momentum
70/100
Growing
Open positions
56
6 opened / 29 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
49 days
faster than 28% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
19% ▲
Data Science
12% ▼
Leadership
12% ▼
HR
9% ▼
Mobile
7% ▼
Design
6%
Actively hiring for Product (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Detroit Oct 2026
New location: Bengaluru Oct 2026
Added Figma to stack Oct 2026
Added Adobe Photoshop to stack Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added GPT-4 to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026
New location: Tokyo Sep 2026
Added Shopify to stack Sep 2026
Added Asana to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
10
Hiring now
8
Countries
7
Busiest office
Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh United States
HQ
Pittsburgh, PA
34 open roles 29 posted in 90 days 32% engineering 200-500 est. staff $259k Avg Salary
hires for Product, HR, Data Science
seen since Oct 2025 careers board, job postings
New York United States
Engineering / R&D
Pittsburgh, PA
37 open roles 46 posted in 90 days 35% engineering 200-500 est. staff $271k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Data Science, Leadership
seen since Oct 2025 careers board, job postings
Beijing China
Engineering / R&D
Beijing, China
7 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 71% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Mobile, Backend, Product
seen since Jun 2026 careers board, job postings
Tokyo Japan
Remote
2 open roles 10-50 est. staff $165k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Communications
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
London United Kingdom
Regional office
London, England
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $298k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
seen since Feb 2026 careers board, job postings
Seattle United States
Engineering / R&D
Seattle, WA
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff $272k Avg Salary
hires for Product
seen since Jul 2026 careers board, job postings
Bengaluru India
Sales office
Bangalore, India
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Management
seen since Oct 2026 careers board, job postings
Detroit United States
Regional office
Detroit, MI
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Design
seen since Oct 2026 careers board, job postings
Paris France
Regional office
Remote - France
careers board
Berlin Germany
Regional office
Berlin, Germany
careers board

Jobs

In office • Internship • PhD • New York • Pittsburgh
Python
SQL
Snowflake
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Cursor
dbt
Prompt Engineering
Machine Learning
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In office • Internship • Master's Degree • New York • Pittsburgh
Python
SQL
Snowflake
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Cursor
dbt
Prompt Engineering
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$138k – $186k per year • Equity • In office • PhD • New York • Pittsburgh
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$183k – $247k per year • Equity • In office • Bachelor's Degree • New York • Pittsburgh
Python
Java
Kotlin
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
Prometheus
Grafana
Platform Engineering
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$153k – $207k per year • Equity • In office • Bachelor's Degree • New York • Pittsburgh
Kotlin
A/B Testing
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$182k – $272k per year • Equity • In office • Bachelor's Degree • New York
LLM
Machine Learning
DevOps
AWS
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In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • Detroit
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
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$200k – $300k per year • Equity • In office • New York • Pittsburgh
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$221k – $331k per year • Equity • In office • Bachelor's Degree • New York • Pittsburgh
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
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$368k – $613k per year • Equity • In office • New York • Pittsburgh
A/B Testing
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$183k – $247k per year • Equity • In office • Bachelor's Degree • New York • Pittsburgh
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$183k – $247k per year • Equity • In office • Bachelor's Degree • New York • Pittsburgh
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