Engineering Manager

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Our mission is simple: to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use whether theyre picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.

Over 80 million learners and 17000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If youre excited by change energized by learning and ready to have a real impact youll feel right at home.

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Where we work

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin and international hubs in Australia India Ireland Mexico and Trkiye. This is an in-office position requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday Wednesday Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

About your skills

• Leadership: You lead with humility and clarity. You build an environment where individuals feel supported heard and proud of what they build together. You understand how to motivate and empower your team to do their best work.
  
  
• Execution: You ensure your team is focused and productive translating high-level objectives into a clear roadmap. You prioritize effectively manage complexity and remove blockers so the team can execute with confidence.
  
  
• Technical Depth: You bring a strong engineering foundation to conversations. You can deep-dive into Kotlin/Java distributed systems data pipelines and cloud-native infrastructure and use this fluency to make sound architectural decisions and coach your team.
  
  
• Systems Thinking: You approach problems holistically. You anticipate downstream impacts think across services and domains and help your team balance speed with scalability and reliability.
  
  
• Collaboration: You partner effectively with cross-functional peers. You are proactive in communicating progress trade-offs and risks with stakeholders and represent your team with integrity and transparency.
  
  
• Growth Mindset: You value continuous improvementfor yourself your team and your processes. You seek and give feedback regularly and you create space for learning experimenting and celebrating progress.

About you

You are a motivated meticulous Engineering Manager with a focus on a team-oriented approach and exceptional problem-solving capabilities. Your values align with our emphasis on humility and collective pride. You have proven experience guiding and motivating technical teams you are organized and proactive with an ability to prioritize tasks effectively not just for yourself but for your entire team.

We continue to foster a workplace culture of individually humble and collectively proud thus your leadership style should encourage teamwork and collective effort. We value every voice and its important to us that your team members know their contributions are recognised. Your role demands continuous celebration of both small victories and huge successes facilitating this interplay with our global team.

About this role

Udemy is searching for an Engineering Manager that embodies our core values: authenticity a drive for continuous learning being results-oriented lean into experimentation and embodying the spirit of being individually humble yet collectively proud. We expect you to possess extensive knowledge relevant to your domain (i.e. software architecture project management) and an impressive resolve to stay updated with industry trends and advancements. You should be proficient in Kotlin/Java Spring Boot Kafka MySQL DynamoDB Redis/Elasticache GraphQL Datadog Kubernetes Terraform with a demonstrated ability to manage complex engineering projects with diverse teams by driving results analytical problem solving systems thinking decision making and active listening.

More than just managing we expect you to inspire your team. In this role you will be addressing complex tasks guiding your team through projects with ambiguous parameters and ensuring the delivery of high-quality services. You will play a crucial part in communicating technical complexities to stakeholders and representing your teams interests.

At Udemy we live by the credo of we are always learning. This is reflected in our commitment to continuous improvement and passion for knowledge-sharing. You are expected to embrace this spirit of growth fostering a climate of constructive debates and encouraging your team to plug into our platforms for organizational learning. Being open to robust discussions and leveraging our solutions to facilitate team learning will be pivotal to your success in this role.

Within the Learn portfolio our mission is to help learners advance their professional skills so they can accelerate their careers with confidence. As a manager within the portfolio you will be leading and building a team to help our learners onboard onto our platform identify their learning goals find the right learning content for them and enhance their skills. We do this by leveraging our platform from recommendations skills guidance and GenAI to name a few. You would be instrumental in driving experiences that enable learners to achieve their goals and improve their lives through learning.

What youll be doing

• Working with your engineering team along with your cross-functional partners in product design data science product marketing and others to build a roadmap deliver features manage execution and identify areas for development.
• Using skills like driving results analytical problem solving systems thinking decision making and active listening to effectively lead engineering teams.
• Demonstrated use of Kotlin/Java Spring Boot Kafka MySQL DynamoDB Redis/Elasticache GraphQL Datadog Kubernetes Terraform bringing a depth of knowledge and experience to deliver high quality results.
• Growing your team their careers and tracking their performance through 1-on-1s and annual reviews.
• Working with senior management to strategize resource allocation.
• Prioritize delegate and juggle multiple tasks concurrently.
• Incorporate feedback from your team and managers to continuously improve your teams execution and ability to achieve your teams goals.
• You will extend your networking skills within and beyond the organization - maintaining key relationships and providing mentoring to your team.

What youll have

• Demonstrated abilities in driving results analytical problem solving systems thinking decision making and active listening
• Technical expertise in Kotlin/Java Spring Boot Kafka MySQL DynamoDB Redis/Elasticache GraphQL Datadog Kubernetes Terraform

Why work here

Youll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. Youll get full access to Udemy courses a monthly UDay to invest in yourself and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately but what you focus on is up to you.

AI is real here.
We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. Youll have the space and tools to experiment apply and get better at using AI in practical ways.

Youll own your work.
We trust people to lead make decisions and follow through. You dont need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.

Youll build with others.
We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.

Youll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills change their careers or find a path forward. Youve got the experience why not use it to help others gain theirs

Bring your curiosity. Well bring the platform and the support. Lets LEARNtogether.

Our Benefits Start with U

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