Senior Engineering Manager, Chess
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission and thats where you come in!
At Duolingo youll 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. Youll have limitless learning opportunities mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds and a variety of projects with large scopes while doing work thats both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
Chess has reached millions of daily active learners since its launch 1 year ago and were just getting started! By expanding beyond language learning Chess helps define how Duolingo brings high-quality accessible learning to entirely new domains.
As a Senior Engineering Manager on Chess youll lead a product engineering team responsible for Duolingos fastest-growing initiative. Your team will build core gameplay experiences guide beginners from their first move to their first matches and drive our strategy for becoming the best place to learn chess.
This role blends technical leadership strong product intuition and people management. Youll partner closely with product design data science and AI to define strategy ship high-impact experiments and help define what learning new subjects looks like at Duolingo.
:brain: As a team lead you will...
- Form a dynamic duo with your product manager counterpart to co-lead a cross-functional team. Youll collaborate closely with data scientists and machine learning researchers to define goals shape experiments and guide technical decisions.
- Provide both technical and product perspectives on new product ideas to ensure we find the fastest way to test a hypothesis.
- Own the planning execution and success of projects that directly improve our top-line business metrics like daily active users and identify which metrics to optimize for at the team level.
- Set clear expectations around engineering quality and promote practices that enhance code quality scalability and maintainability.
- Identify and drive technical initiatives that improve the reliability timeliness and efficacy of notification delivery.
:check: As a role manager you will...
- Develop your team deeply understanding each engineers strengths and career goals and proactively providing mentorship and stretch opportunities to help them grow their impact.
- Set clear expectations and hold a high bar for performance regularly providing candid feedback addressing challenges decisively and maintaining a supportive environment where engineers feel valued engaged and empowered.
- Provide clarity and alignment transparently communicating the why behind decisions thoughtfully guiding your team through changes and ensuring everyone understands their role in achieving team and company goals.
:star: You have...
- 2 years of experience leading managing and building a team of software engineers.
- 5 years in software development focused on content or animation creation.
- Have a record of owning the execution of successful technical projects that span multiple engineers over multiple weeks.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to skills experience education and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees holistic well-being with our benefitshere.
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.
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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About Company
Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps!
