Senior Engineering Manager, Language Learning

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission and thats where you come in!

At Duolingo youll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems running countless experiments (300 at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions and educating our users and employees alike. Youll have limitless learning opportunities mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds and a variety of projects with large scopes while doing work thats both fun and meaningful.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

About the role...

As an engineering manager and team lead of the Short Form Experience Team youll manage a team of 7 engineers to build features that make up the core of the learning experience on Duolingo.

Our short-form lessons are where learners spend the majority of their time on the app and this teams mission is to make these sessions more effective and engaging. Your team will work on adding new exercises that support our 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.

Were looking for managers who are passionate about improving how we teach while leading engineers in a highly cross-functional team!

You will...

• 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.
• Use data and rapid experimentation to inform decisions; partner with internal stakeholders to design A/B tests and translate insights into product improvements that measurably impact learning KPIs.
• 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.
• Collaborate closely with product design research and other engineering teams to deliver user experiences that serve user needs while being impactful towards business metrics.
• Define team OKRs ruthlessly prioritize and remove roadblocks to enable teams to do their best work.

You have...

• 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 datadriven 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 tradeoffs evolve quality standards and mentor engineers on best practices.
• The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh PA or New York NY.

Exceptional candidates will have...

• Experience leading cross-functional product-focused teams in consumer products.
• Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on companylevel metrics.
• Background dealing with ambiguity and managing broad-scoped projects.

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