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Restore checkout retries for Super learners within 48 hours

You’re the software engineer. Your team is in the room. Printed Oct 13, 2026.

The checkout return path is trapping learners between plan selection and the paywall.

Experiment continuity protects the test, while a broken Android state transition blocks an intended purchase.

Who you’d be doing this for

“I picked Super, checked the store details, and it just dumped me back at the same screen.”

Andreas Wolf · Daily language learner

She practices every evening and reaches the Super offer after hitting a practice limit.

What is at stake

Android learners who leave checkout are cycling back to the paywall instead of retrying their purchase. You need to protect experiment assignment while restoring a clean path to checkout.

Why it isn’t already fixed

Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.

  • checkout recovery vs. experiment continuity
  • fast mobile fix vs. entitlement correctness
  • retry clarity vs. duplicate purchase risk

Why Duolingo

Super checkout is a core subscription surface for learners seeking uninterrupted practice.

Written with these in mind

mobile product engineerexperiment-minded software engineerreliability-focused application engineer

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This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.