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 Language Learning Pillar owns the core learning experience on Duolingo — the lessons and immersive experiences where language learners spend a majority of their time in the app. Our goal is to make these sessions as effective and engaging as possible by continuously improving how we teach through new exercise types, smarter practice of skills, better scaffolding and personalization to help learners build foundational skills in a new language. As an engineering...
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