The opportunity
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 you'll do
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.
What they're looking for
- Define team OKRs, ruthlessly prioritize, and remove roadblocks to enable teams to do their best work.
- 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.
