# Senior Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Duolingo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/duolingo)
**Location:** Beijing, China
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** CN¥898k – CN¥1.3M/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Subscription Systems, Billing, Storekit, Google Play Billing, Receipt Validation, Machine Learning, Experimentation, Personalization, Pricing, Mobile Apps, Reliability, Scalability, Observability, Ltv Modeling, Data Analytics
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Leads software engineering teams responsible for monetization systems, partnering with product, design, data science, and ML to deliver measurable revenue impact. The role requires experience managing engineers, shipping experimental products, and improving reliability, scalability, and observability.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Co-lead a cross-functional pod with Product and Design to define strategy, success metrics, and an execution roadmap for a Monetization team.
- Partner with Design and Product to ship native, delightful, well-paced learner experiences while maintaining monetization performance.
- Collaborate with Data Science and ML partners to design experiments, apply personalization and targeting, and translate insights into product improvements and bookings growth.
- Own planning and execution for multi-week projects that directly impact revenue; identify team-level metrics, establish milestones, and manage risks.
- Bring technical and product perspectives to new ideas, enabling rapid hypothesis testing without sacrificing reliability, observability, or maintainability.
- Set and uphold engineering quality standards and practices that improve reliability, scalability, and operability.

## Requirements
- Experience leading, managing, hiring, developing, and retaining software engineering teams.
- Direct experience building and operating monetization systems.
- Track record of owning multi-engineer technical projects to successful outcomes in highly experimental, data-driven environments.
- Strong product instincts and written and verbal communication skills, with experience aligning engineering, product, design, and analytics stakeholders.
- Experience working with data, experimentation, or machine learning teams to inform prioritization and deliver measurable impact.
- Ability to improve engineering practices for reliability, scalability, and observability.
- Technical depth to guide architecture and implementation trade-offs, evolve quality standards, and mentor engineers.

## Nice-to-haves
- Subscription systems at scale, billing and entitlements, StoreKit, Google Play Billing, receipt validation, renewals, refunds, and payment reliability.
- Designing and shipping paywalls, upgrade flows, and trial experiences in mobile apps.
- High-velocity experimentation on revenue surfaces, including ML-powered personalization and offer targeting.
- Pricing and packaging, including plan and tier design, regional pricing, promotional offers, and family or multi-seat products.
- Subscriber retention and churn initiatives, including win-back campaigns, cancellation flows, grace periods, dunning, and lifecycle messaging informed by LTV modeling.
- Subscription economics and metrics such as trial-to-paid, ARPU, gross and net bookings, cohort retention, and LTV/CAC.
- Building instrumentation and reporting for monetization metrics.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary range: ¥898,302–¥1,347,453 CNY.
- Base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.
- Employee benefits support holistic well-being.

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