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Senior Engineering Manager, Growth

Duolingo · New York, NY

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<p>Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!</p> <p>At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding <a href=&quot;https://blog.duolingo.com/tag/engineering/?utm_source=greenhouse.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=engblog_gh_091224&quot;>innovative solutions to complex technical problems</a>, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.&nbsp;</p> <p>Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.</p> <hr> <p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;><strong>About the role...</strong></p> <p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;>We’re hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team focused on user growth. You will co-lead a cross-functional team to improve learner habit formation and long-term engagement through a variety of features, while owning the team s roadmap, execution, and outcomes. This role blends technical leadership, people management, and product strategy as you’ll set direction for complex systems, foster an inclusive, high-performance culture, and create an environment for engineers to do impactful things. The role is based in Pittsburgh or New York.</p> <p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>🧠&nbsp; You will...</strong></p> <ul> <li>Co-lead a cross-functional team with partners in product management, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for features that drive user growth.</li> <li>Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring infrastructure reliability, scalability, and observability.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Attract, grow, and retain diverse engineering talent; provide clear expectations, coaching, and career development, and build a healthy, inclusive team culture.</li> <li>Set engineering quality standards and processes that balance speed and long-term maintainability; proactively manage tech debt, product quality, and operational excellence.</li> <li>Collaborate closely with product, design, research, and other engineering teams to deliver user experiences that serve user needs while being impactful towards business metrics.</li> <li>Define team OKRs, ruthlessly prioritize, and remove roadblocks to enable teams to do their best work.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>✅&nbsp; You have...</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers, with demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain talent.</li> <li>A track record of shipping multi-engineer, multi-week+ projects with measurable business impact, balancing speed and quality.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, design, and data; clear written specs and status updates.</li> <li>Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture and implementation trade‑offs, evolve quality standards, and mentor engineers on best practices.</li> <li>The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.</li> </ul> <p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>⭐&nbsp; Exceptional candidates will have...</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experien

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