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Engineering Manager, Product

Duolingo · New York, NY · On-site

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About Duolingo

Learn languages by playing a game. It. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, NEA and USV.

About the role

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!

What they're looking for

  • 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
  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
More about this role

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!

At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems , 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.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

The Notifications team sits in the Out-of-App Area within Duolingo’s Growth Pillar and drives user growth and habit formation by delivering the right message at the right time — and by operating the notification infrastructure that reaches hundreds of millions of learners reliably. As an Engineering Manager, Notifications, you will co-lead a cross‑functional team with a Product Manager, partner closely with data science and ML, and own both product impact and...

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