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About Lingoda
Founded 12 years ago, Lingoda addresses a pressing global challenge: meeting the demands of growing economies and aging populations through the mobility of global talent. Driven by its mission "to empower global talent with the language, cultural, and technical skills for integration and success", Lingoda has established itself as a leader in education.
What We Do
Lingoda’s highly effective Small Group Learning Model is delivered via over 800,000 classes a year, powered by 2,400 qualified teachers and a unique proprietary curriculum designed to help learners achieve their goals, whether that be career progression or integration into a new country.
Who We Serve
A rapidly growing and ambitious company, Lingoda operates in both B2B and B2C: while the B2B business has a strong focus on the healthcare sector in Germany and a credible ambition to expand into other professions and geographies, Lingoda’s B2C business has a global presence, teaching German, English, Spanish, French, and Italian to students worldwide.
A rapidly growing and ambitious company, Lingoda operates in both B2B and B2C: while the B2B business has a strong focus on the healthcare sector in Germany and a credible ambition to expand into other professions and geographies, Lingoda’s B2C business has a global presence, teaching German, English, Spanish, French, and Italian to students worldwide.
Learning a language with Lingoda is a rewarding experience, made possible by us Lingodies who support our students every step of the way. We’re committed to living the learning journey alongside them to create a world of connection and opportunity.
Why Join Us?
Joining Lingoda means becoming part of a team that’s committed to getting better, together. We foster an inclusive culture of bravery, curiosity, and growth, where insight turns into action, and every team member contributes to igniting positive change.
Be part of our journey to transform lives through education.
AI will help scale and enhance our human centered teaching approach for our Teachers and Students. It is fundamental in the achievement of the Lingoda product vision. We are seeking a talented and experienced AI Software Engineer (all genders) to join our AI team. You will support our ambition to create a continuous learning experience (inside and outside of the classroom) and the best learning experience in the world.
AI will help scale and enhance our human centered teaching approach for our Teachers and Students. It is fundamental in the achievement of the Lingoda product vision. We are seeking a talented and experienced AI Software Engineer (all genders) to join our AI team. You will support our ambition to create a continuous learning experience (inside and outside of the classroom) and the best learning experience in the world.
Your mission with us:
As an AI Software Engineer at Lingoda you will be working alongside Prompt Engineers rapidly developing AI proof of concepts and then scalable solutions - such as integrating LLM’s and AI services, building/connecting API’s and creating front end interactions.
You will be responsible for developing AI solutions to support our teachers and students. You will prototype and develop full stack AI solutions that can be integrated into our Lingoda platform to inform and accelerate Lingoda’s Product Vision.
You will be well connected with the rapidly growing and changing AI landscape, up to speed with the latest developments and research, ready to keep Lingoda on the cutting edge of this space.
Your Tasks:
- As part of our AI team, work on maintaining and improving our live AI-based applications
- Work with AI prompt engineers and product designers to design AI proof of concepts and prototypes for the Lingoda Product.
- Develop rapid full stack POC’s/Prototypes (including backend and frontend) to test ideas and concepts.
- For successful POCs, create scalable/maintainable versions of the solutions
- Where required, create APIs that our main student and teacher platform can connect to
- Integrate with external LLMs, Vector Databases, AI services from AWS, GPC, Open AI and more.
- Work with the DevOps team on Deployment, CI and security
You bring to Lingoda:
- Demonstrable expertise and experience in developing AI solutions utilising LLM based product solutions using a variety of LLM models and approaches.
- Experience using LLM APIs and integrating LLM solutions into applications
- Very good Python skills
- Experience with a variety of backend and frontend technologies. We use Python & FastAPI in the backend, MongoDB, GraphQL and React for our frontend.
- Good knowledge and practical experience with OOP and design patterns, as well as with modern architecture approaches;
- Experience with TDD and BDD.
- 4+ years of general web software development experience
- You are passionate about code quality: writing tests and documentation belongs to your natural workflow
- The ability to work together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to achieve a common goal
- Excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with many other functions and departments
- Very strong in balancing business requirements and technical process to deliver results and achieve success
- Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Fluent English skills (C-level).
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fiel
What you can expect from Lingoda:
- Approachable leaders and transparent communication - every voice counts at Lingoda!
- Company events and colleagues who are always happy to socialise + budgets towards team building events!
- An inclusive environment with great team spirit and passion for languages
- A well-structured and exciting onboarding process to set you up for success!
- The possibility to work remotely from your home or in the office located in the heart of Berlin
- Learning & development opportunities
- Free access to our language classes
- Mental Health programs
- Corporate benefits & pension funds
- Discounts on Urban Sports memberships (EU)
- Public Transport discounts in Berlin
- 30 vacation days per year
- Free snacks & drinks at the office
- The modern hardware necessary for your work (n/a for freelancers)
- Flexible working hours
Does that sound exciting? Then, send us your CV right away!
We are looking forward to hearing from you! Your contact person for the position is Elif.
We are looking forward to hearing from you! Your contact person for the position is Elif.
Lingoda is dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As an equal opportunities and affirmative action employer, we strive to create a workforce that reflects the diversity of our user base. Our commitment ensures that every applicant is assessed on the basis of their skills and qualifications, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or religion.
We ask that you please apply directly via the link provided in the job description or directly on our website. Due to GDPR regulations, applications sent otherwise will not be considered.
Please note that if you are based outside of Germany that only a freelance contract can be offered. All our contracts whether freelance or regular German employment contract start on a 2 year time period.
