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DuolingoDuolingoNew York, NY

Senior Engineering Manager

Leads a product engineering team focused on learner retention and habit formation, co-managing roadmap, execution, and outcomes with a Product Manager. Requires 3+ years managing engineers, strong product instincts, data-driven decision-making, and technical depth in a high-experimentation environment.

204k – 306k
On-siteEngineering Management

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Co-lead a cross-functional team with your product partner, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for retention and habit-building features.
  • Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring system 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 retention 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 cohesive learner experiences across in-app and out-of-app surfaces (e.g., notifications, emails, widgets).
  • Define team OKRs, ruthlessly prioritize, and remove roadblocks so the team ships impactful work that moves company metrics.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of 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 teams focused on retention, engagement, growth, or habit-formation features in consumer products.
  • Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on company-level metrics.
  • Background managing teams with broad cross-functional scope.

Skills

A/B TestingData AnalysisSoftware ArchitectureTeam ManagementStakeholder ManagementOkrsSystem ScalabilityObservabilityExperimentationTechnical Leadership

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