Engineering Manager

Preply; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lessons stipend

Learning budget

Health insurance

Mental health support

Job summary

Preply is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead one of two high-impact tribes. You will grow and mentor engineering teams, define long-term vision, and partner with Product, Data, and Design to drive measurable customer and business value. You’ll balance speed, quality, and reliability while championing best practices and an inclusive culture.

You will collaborate across the organization to align priorities and execute on strategic initiatives that scale Preply’s learning platform globally.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in building, leading, and scaling development teams.
• Ability to coach and develop engineers through feedback and mentorship.
• Experience driving architectural discussions and technology strategy.
• Experience partnering with Product, Design and Data to drive outcomes.
• Track record of delivering measurable business value through engineering leadership.
• Lead with empathy, transparency, ownership and inclusive culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams, fostering ownership and technical excellence.
• Coach engineers through regular feedback, mentorship, and career development.
• Define long-term vision and strategy aligned with company objectives and product priorities.
• Identify opportunities with Product, Data, and Design to maximize impact.
• Own execution, balancing speed, quality and reliability to achieve outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership on system design and architectural decisions.
• Champion engineering best practices and continuous process improvements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders to align on priorities and outcomes.

Skills

People-Centric Leadership

Technical Judgment

Systems Thinking

Product & Business Partnership

Results-Driven

Ethical Leadership

Job description

We power people’s progress.

At Preply, we’re all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled and it’s creating real impact.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join one of two high-impact tribes at Preply:

Growth Tribe – owns a significant part of the learner journey, from helping students discover value on Preply and successfully start learning, to driving subscription conversion, engagement, retention, and long-term learner success.

Monetization Tribe – is the center of Preply’s economic engine, owning the systems and experiences that drive how learners purchase, how tutors earn, and how the marketplace grows. From subscriptions, bookings, and payments to pricing, commissions, and tutor business tools, your teams’ work has a direct impact on revenue, retention, and marketplace health.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Coach and develop engineers, support them through regular feedback, mentorship, and career development, while creating an inclusive and collaborative team environment.
• Define and drive long-term vision, set the strategy for your teams, ensuring perfect alignment with company objectives and product priorities.
• Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities, partner closely with Product, Data, and Design to ensure teams focus on initiatives that deliver the greatest customer and business value.
• Own execution and delivery. Balance speed, quality, and reliability while ensuring teams consistently achieve desired outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership, guide system design and architectural decisions, help teams navigate trade-offs, and remove technical obstacles.
• Champion engineering best practices. Drive continuous improvements in code quality, operational excellence, development processes, and technology evolution.
• Collaborate cross-functionally, work with stakeholders across the broader business to maximize impact and align on priorities, strategy, and outcomes.

What you need to succeed:

• 3-5+ years of experience in building, leading, and scaling development teams.
• People-Centric Approach and Team Building Skills: a passion for building high-performing teams and helping people grow, creating alignment, fostering psychological safety, providing actionable feedback, and developing engineers through coaching and mentorship.
• Strong technical judgment and systems thinking: comfortable driving architectural discussions, evaluating technical trade-offs, championing engineering best practices, and partnering with senior engineers on technical strategy.
• Product & Business Partnership: comfortable working closely with Product, Design, and Data partners to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, and drive measurable outcomes, connecting technical decisions to user experience, business metrics, and company strategy.
• Results-Oriented: track record of driving performance, motivating teams to set and achieve ambitious, business-focused, and measurable goals.
• Ethical Leadership: lead by example, demonstrating empathy, transparency, accountability, a strong sense of ownership, honesty, fairness, and creating a culture where people feel safe to challenge ideas, learn, and grow.

Why you’ll love it at Preply:

• An open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture.
• A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com, a Learning & Development budget, and time off for self-development.
• A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance, and health insurance.
• Access to free mental health support platforms.
• The opportunity to unlock the potential of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!).

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Preply.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. That means that Preply will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status.