Senior Engineering Manager, Language Learning
DuolingoLanguage Learning company
Pittsburgh, United States$204,000 - $306,000 USDManager
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Manage a team of engineers to build core language learning features and improve user engagement.
- •As an engineering manager and team lead of the Short Form Experience Team, you'll manage a team of 7 engineers to build features that make up the core of the learning experience on Duolingo.
- •Your team will work on adding new exercises that support learners in practicing skills like recall and production in bite-sized formats, as well as creating other ways to help learners build foundational skills in a new language.
- •Key Responsibilities Co-lead a cross-functional team with partners in product management, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for features that help us teach better.
- •Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring infrastructure reliability, scalability, and observability.
- •Attract, grow, and retain diverse engineering talent; provide clear expectations, coaching, and career development, and build a healthy, inclusive team culture.
- •Set engineering quality standards and processes that balance speed and long-term maintainability; proactively manage tech debt, product quality, and operational excellence.
- •Define team OKRs, ruthlessly prioritize, and remove roadblocks to enable teams to do their best work.
- •Requirements Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers, with demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain talent.
- •A track record of shipping multi-engineer, multi-week+ projects with measurable business impact, balancing speed and quality.
- •Strong product instincts and comfort in highly experimental, data-driven environments; experience defining metrics and running A/B tests with analytics or data science partners.
- •Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, design, and data; clear written specs and status updates.
- •Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture and implementation trade-offs, evolve quality standards, and mentor engineers on best practices.
Required skills
Engineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipAgileScrumOKRsProduct ManagementA/B Testing
Nice-to-have skills
ReactNode.jsAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDPythonJavaScript
Domain expertise
edtech
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptReactNode.jsAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitLinuxJiraPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchA/B TestingProduct ManagementAgileScrumStakeholder ManagementOKRsLeadershipTeam ManagementEngineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipStrategic PlanningCoachingMentoringCross-functional Leadership
