Software Engineering Manager

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Application deadline: 26/09/25

Job posting date: 15/09/25

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 a proven track record of guiding coaching and motivating engineers. You are organized and proactive with an ability to prioritize and organize work effectively for yourself and your team.

We continue to foster a workplace culture of individually humble and collectively proud thus your leadership style should promote teamwork and collective action. 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

• Leading a team of engineers as part of the wider Product Platform portfolio focused on enabling application teams to build secure compliant and operationally efficient products.
• Continuously investing in our identity privacy anti-fraud and internal tooling solutions to keep us operationally efficient
• Ensure regulatory compliance minimizing exposure risk and keeping us at a high level of Enterprise Grade to meet the expectation of our enterprise B2B clients.
• Building foundational product platform capabilities that solidify Udemy Business position as the top AI-powered upskilling solution in the industry.

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.
• Growing your team their careers and tracking their performance through 1-on-1s and annual reviews.
• Working with senior management to strategize resource allocation.
• Prioritizing execution of tasks and projects delegating to your technical leads and other team members as appropriate.
• Incorporating feedback from your team and managers to continuously improve your teams execution and ability to achieve your teams goals.
• Extending your networking skills within and beyond the organization - maintaining key relationships and providing mentoring to your team.

What youll have

• 1-3 years of experience managing software engineers with a focus on constant flow of feedback and career development
• Experience defining strategy roadmaps and prioritising work in your area in close collaboration with your Product and Design counterparts
• A proven track record of timely and high quality product delivery
• Experience working in a highly collaborative environment that involves product managers design and stakeholders
• Experience with designing scalable systems with an emphasis on microservices and event-driven architecture
• Experience designing scalable secure and performant APIs (REST GraphQL)
• Experience with web application development in technologies such as HTTP HTML CSS and JavaScript/TypeScript

Application deadline: 24/10/25

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.

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