Senior Engineering Manager, Product
Required skills
- product engineering
- user growth
- learner habit formation
- long-term engagement
- roadmap
- outcomes
- technical leadership
- people management
- product strategy
- complex systems
Nice to have
- consumer products
- company-level metrics
- ambiguity
- broad cross-functional scope
- equity compensation
Role summary
Duolingo is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Product to lead a high-impact engineering team focused on user growth. This role involves co-leading a cross-functional team to enhance learner habit formation and engagement, owning the team's roadmap, execution, and outcomes. The position blends technical leadership, people management, and product strategy, requiring the ability to set direction for complex systems, foster an inclusive culture, and drive impactful engineering work. Responsibilities include collaborating with product, design, and data teams, using data and experimentation for decision-making, attracting and developing engineering talent, and ensuring high engineering quality standards. The role is based in Pittsburgh or New York City.
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.
Below you can find more information about the teams we're hiring for:
Language Learning:
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 manager in this pillar, you'll lead a team of engineers working on high-impact, cross-functional problems at the intersection of engineering, product, and pedagogy. We're looking for leaders who are passionate about improving how people learn, and who bring strong technical judgment along with the people-management skills to build a high-performing, collaborative team culture.
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The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!
Salary Range: $204,000—$306,000 USDBenefits: Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.Job Alerts: Sign up for job alerts here.Accommodations: We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.Equal Employment Opportunity: Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.Fraud Warning: Unfortunately, there is a rise in scammers pretending to be real Duolingo employees. Duolingo and our employees will never ask for your Social Security number, bank details, or passport info, and we’ll never ask you to deposit a check, purchase equipment, or exchange money during the interview process. Real Duolingo employees always use an email that ends in @duolingo.com or @recruiting.duolingo.com. Stay alert and double-check these details before sharing any information.By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Sample Duolingo interview questions
- 1
Construct a platform for real-time analysis of mobile app performance metrics.
system designmedium - 2
Design a system for managing a distributed data lake.
system designmedium - 3
Merge a New Interval Merge a new interval into a list of non-overlapping intervals. Input: intervals = [[1,2],[3,5],[6,7],[8,10],[12,16]], newInterval = [4,8] Output: [[1,2],[3,10],[12,16]] Explanation: The new interval overlaps with [3,5], [6,7], and [8,10], merging them all into the unified block [3,10].
codingmedium - 4
Count Anagrammatic Substrings Count the number of anagrammatic substrings from one string present in another. Input: s = "abab", p = "ab" Output: [0, 1, 2] Explanation: The substrings "ab", "ba", and "ab" starting at indices 0, 1, and 2 respectively are all anagrams of the string "ab".
codingmedium - 5
Find the minimum path sum from top-left to bottom-right in a grid.
codingmedium
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