Senior Engineering Manager (Monetization)

Join Duolingo, the world's leading language-learning platform, as a Senior Engineering Manager in the Monetization pillar. You will lead a cross-functional product engineering team focused on high-impact, revenue-generating systems. Your team will build and scale systems across ads and paid growth, collaborating closely with product, design, data science, machine learning, and marketing. You will also create an environment for engineers to excel, coaching and developing talent while fostering a high-performing team culture.

• Lead a cross-functional product engineering team to build and scale systems across ads and paid growth, focusing on high-impact, revenue-generating systems.
• Collaborate with product, design, data science, machine learning, and marketing teams to define strategy and deliver results, ensuring alignment with ROI guardrails and retained-user growth goals.
• Create an environment where engineers do the best work of their careers by coaching, developing talent, and fostering a high-performing team culture.
• Strong product instincts and excellent written/verbal communication, with experience aligning diverse stakeholders across engineering, product, design, and analytics
• A track record of owning multi‑engineer, multi‑week technical projects to successful outcomes in a highly experimental, data‑driven environment
• Experience working closely with data, experimentation, or machine learning teams to inform prioritization and ship measurable impact (direct ML expertise not required)
• Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers
• Demonstrated ability to raise the bar on engineering practices for reliability, scalability, and observability
• Prior experience with advertising platforms, ad tech integrations, or building ad surfaces in mobile apps
• Experience improving ad quality and monetization through experimentation, targeting, or programmatic levers, in partnership with business teams
• Familiarity with COPPA‑compliant or kid‑friendly ad solutions and the trade‑offs of untargeted inventory
• Background collaborating with sales/biz ops on direct or programmatic campaigns and translating market feedback into product improvements
• Experience leading teams that span multiple platforms (iOS, Android, backend) and partnering on ML‑powered personalization within consumer apps