Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. But we’ve got more left to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo is the world's most popular learning app. Beyond our core learning product, we also offer English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test, and are bringing new subjects into the Duolingo app, where people can develop their Math and Music skills.
We are passionate about educating our users, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world-class minds. Come brighten your life and over half a billion more!
About the role...
As a QA Specialist I, you will support the delivery of high-quality Duolingo experiences by testing new features across iOS, Android, and Web. Embedded within a cross-functional product team, you will partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to identify issues, communicate quality risks, and advocate for learners. You will build product and testing expertise while receiving guidance from more experienced QA teammates.
🧠 You will...
- Manually test new features across iOS, Android, and Web using regression, exploratory, and acceptance testing
- Perform sanity checks on Duolingo release and branch builds, and help validate bug fixes before and after deployment
- Write clear, detailed, and reproducible bug reports, and collaborate with engineers and teammates to diagnose issues
- Build deep knowledge of Duolingo products and ask thoughtful questions about expected behavior, edge cases, and the learner experience
- Identify potential quality issues and raise risks with guidance from more experienced QA teammates
- Prioritize testing tasks within assigned projects, focusing on areas with high learner impact
- Advocate for learners by evaluating features for correctness, clarity, and usability
- Follow and contribute to QA processes, documentation, and procedures while learning how quality practices scale across teams
- Communicate progress, questions, and blockers clearly to cross-functional partners
✅ You have...
- Graduated between Spring 2025 - Spring 2026 with a bachelor’s degree in a related field
- Experience testing consumer mobile or web applications
- Strong attention to detail and an interest in finding, reproducing, and documenting software issues
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, designers, and QA teammates
- An organized approach to managing assigned work and changing priorities
- Curiosity, sound problem-solving skills, and a commitment to high-quality work
- The ability to ask questions, incorporate feedback, and build expertise in an evolving product environment
⭐ Exceptional candidates will have...
- Familiarity with basic automation tools, lightweight scripting, or AI-assisted testing tools, even if not a primary responsibility
- Familiarity with regression, exploratory, acceptance, or usability testing
- Experience writing reproducible bug reports or working with issue-tracking tools
- Familiarity with the Duolingo app
The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!
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Equal Employment Opportunity: Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Experience testing consumer mobile or web applications
- Strong attention to detail and interest in finding, reproducing, and documenting software issues
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, designers, and QA teammates
- Organized approach to managing assigned work and changing priorities
- Curiosity, sound problem-solving skills, and commitment to high-quality work
- Ability to ask questions, incorporate feedback, and build expertise in an evolving product environment
- Familiarity with basic automation tools, lightweight scripting, or AI-assisted testing tools
- Familiarity with regression, exploratory, acceptance, or usability testing
- Experience writing reproducible bug reports or working with issue-tracking tools
- Familiarity with the Duolingo app
Duolingo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Duolingo and has not been reviewed or approved by Duolingo.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for core engineering and product roles, with required jurisdictions showing posted ranges and immigration filings implying a strong base-salary floor. Public compensation snapshots indicate senior packages can scale higher, supporting a clear, market-aligned structure.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with mental-health resources and fertility support as core offerings. Coverage for dependents and strong wellness benefits are consistently highlighted.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — About 20 days of PTO plus a two‑week company winter break and paid holidays provide substantial time away. A formal sabbatical at 10 years further expands long‑term recharge options.
Duolingo Insights
What We Do
Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages. Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Some of our products include: 1. Duolingo: The free, fun, and effective way to learn a language! 2. DET (Duolingo English Test): A modern language proficiency tool designed for today's international students and institutions. It offers an English proficiency score, video interview, and writing sample in an accessible, efficient, and secure testing experience. 3. Duolingo Math: An app that can make math be fun. For everyone. Students can focus on elementary math, which covers classroom topics, or adults can focus on brain training, which strengthens mental math skills and covers more advanced topics. 4. Duolingo ABC: An educational learning app that offers immersive lessons to teach preschool to second grade kids reading fundamentals. Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. The app has been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best. Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives. Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated. With over 500 million learners we have unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Our teams of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve our effectiveness. We’re building a future in which the highest-quality education is accessible to all. Duolingo has been named: 2022 Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2022 Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company 2021 Forbes Best Startup Employers 2020, 2018, 2017, 2013 Most Innovative Company by Fast Company 2020 Best Machine Learning Startups for by Glassdoor 2018 Inc. Best Places to Work 2018 Entrepreneur Top Company Culture List University Program Awards: 2022 Handshake Early Talent Award 2022 Untapped Top Internship Programs 2022 OneReq Internship Program Trailblazer Award
Why Work With Us
Our global team works together to make language learning fun, free, and effective for anyone who wants to learn, wherever they are. Best of all, you get to work alongside Duo (literally)!
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