Engineering Manager, Product

Duolingo; New York (NY); On-site; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo is hiring an Engineering Manager, Notifications, to lead a cross‑functional team delivering scalable user engagement features for hundreds of millions of learners. You will partner with product, data science, ML, and other engineering teams to drive strategy, experiments, and reliable delivery.

You’ll set OKRs, grow the team, balance speed and quality, and mentor engineers while shaping architecture and coding standards. Relocation to New York, NY is supported where applicable.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams with hiring and retention responsibilities.
• Track record shipping multi-engineer projects with measurable business impact.
• Comfort with experimental, data-driven environments and defining metrics for A/B tests.
• Excellent communication with engineers, product, design, and data partners.

Responsibilities

• Co-lead a cross-functional team with product management, aligning on strategy and success metrics.
• Drive execution from specs to implementation, ensuring reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Use data and rapid experiments to inform decisions and translate insights into product improvements.
• Attract, grow, and retain engineering talent; provide coaching and career development.
• Set engineering quality standards and manage tech debt and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with product, design, research, and other teams to deliver impactful user experiences.
• Define team OKRs and remove roadblocks to enable high performance.

Skills

Team leadership

Project delivery

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder management

Architectural guidance

Relocation readiness

Job description

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:

Notifications

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 technical excellence. You’ll shape strategy, run fast experiments, and raise the bar on reliability, personalization, and delivery timeliness for one of Duolingo’s highest‑leverage surfaces.

• Co‑lead a cross‑functional team with partners in product management, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for features that drive meaningful user impact.
• Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring infrastructure reliability, scalability, and observability.
• 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 key product KPIs.
• Attract, grow, and retain diverse engineering talent; provide clear expectations, coaching, and career development, and build a healthy, inclusive team culture.
• Set engineering quality standards and processes that balance speed and long‑term maintainability; proactively manage tech debt, product quality, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, research, and other engineering teams to deliver user experiences that serve user needs while being impactful towards business metrics.
• Define team OKRs, ruthlessly prioritize, and remove roadblocks to enable teams to do their best work.

You have

• 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.
• The ability to work from or relocate to New York, NY.

Exceptional candidates will have

• Experience leading cross‑functional teams focused on driving core product outcomes in consumer products.
• Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on company‑level metrics.
• Background dealing with ambiguity and managing teams or projects with broad cross‑functional scope.

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.

Salary Range

$182,800—$247,300 USD

Benefits

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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 [e-mail].

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.

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