Senior Engineering Manager

Posted:
8/8/2024, 7:44:46 AM

Location(s):
New York, New York, United States ⋅ New York, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Pay:
$93/hr or $193,440 total comp

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!

As an Engineering Manager at Duolingo, you will have the opportunity to grow as both a software engineer and an engineering leader. In this role, you’ll join Duolingo’s rapidly growing engineering organization to lead mission critical projects from end to end, contribute to product strategy and lead a team of world-class engineers.

More information on the team:


Monetization Area:

  • The Monetization Area focuses on Duolingo’s key business drivers—subscriptions, ads, and in-app purchases. Our area’s goal is to build the best premium experiences for our learners while ensuring the sustainability and success of our business model. You will play an instrumental role in the strategic direction of Duolingo by developing and refining the methods that make our monetization efforts more effective and efficient.

Math Team Area:

  • The Math team creates software to help adult learners overcome math anxiety and realize that math can be fun. We want to do for math what Duolingo has already done for language: Create the best education in the world and make it universally available.

You Will...

  • Lead and develop a team of software engineers, including task planning, technical leadership and career development of your reports.
  • Own the overall planning, execution and success of projects that directly improve our top-line business metrics.
  • Lead the development of new features and/or microservices in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
  • Collaborate with product teams across the company to find new imaginative opportunities to increase company business metrics, like DAUs, revenue, retention and app performance.
  • Identify best practices and tools to maximize our ability to build and maintain features and services.

You Have...

  • Experience in guiding a software engineering team and setting technical direction.
  • Experience in leading cross-functional software engineering projects.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • B.A./B.S. in Computer Science or a related field

Exceptional Candidates Will Have...

  • Experience in fast-growing, consumer-facing, data-driven startups, ideally mobile app based.
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.

 


We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.

The multi-level salary range for this role is $174,900 - $335,600 and is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.


We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

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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Duolingo

Website: https://www.duolingo.com/

Headquarter Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Employee Count: 501-1000

Year Founded: 2011

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Series H

Industries: E-Learning ⋅ Education ⋅ Language Learning ⋅ Mobile Apps