Senior Engineering Manager (Language Learning)

Join Duolingo as a Senior Engineering Manager, leading a team of 7 engineers to enhance the core learning experience of the app. You will co-lead a cross-functional team, drive project execution, use data to inform decisions, attract and retain diverse engineering talent, set engineering quality standards, collaborate with various teams, and define team OKRs. Enjoy a range of benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, paid parental leave, a 401(k) with generous match, and more.

• 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.
• Attract, grow, and retain diverse engineering talent; provide clear expectations, coaching, and career development, and build a healthy, inclusive team culture.
• 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
• The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY
• A track record of shipping multi-engineer, multi-week+ projects with measurable business impact, balancing speed and quality
• Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture and implementation trade‑offs, evolve quality standards, and mentor engineers on best practices
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, design, and data; clear written specs and status updates
• Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers, with demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain talent
• Experience leading cross-functional product-focused teams in consumer products
• Background dealing with ambiguity and managing broad-scoped projects
• Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on company‑level metrics