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DuolingoDuolingoNew York, NY

Senior Engineering Manager, Language Learning

Lead a team of 7 engineers building core short-form language learning features at Duolingo. Co-lead cross-functional product efforts, drive experimentation and metrics-focused improvements, hire and develop talent, and set engineering standards in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.

204k – 306k
On-site5+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

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.
  • 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.

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.
  • The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.

Nice-to-Haves

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

Skills

Team ManagementHiringMentoringA/B TestingData-Driven Decision MakingOkrsStakeholder ManagementArchitecture Trade-OffsProduct DevelopmentCross-Functional Collaboration

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