Engineering Director

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 14 hours 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...

You will...

Own the strategy execution and outcomes for the Music area including leading 0-to-1 product development.
Build and scale multiple teams (and managers) organizing for clarity of ownership high velocity and long-term maintainability.
Set a high bar for engineering quality including reliability scalability observability and pragmatic refactoring of critical systems.
Partner with senior cross-functional leaders to co-develop roadmaps OKRs and success metrics; communicate progress and tradeoffs with transparency.
Attract develop and retain top engineering talent; identify emerging leaders and coach managers and senior ICs to grow their scope and impact.
Guide teams to run effective experiments and make data-informed decisions that move key business metrics

You have...

Proven track record as an Engineering Director (or equivalent scope) leading multiple teams/managers to ship complex high-impact systems repeatedly.
Experience in building products from idea to successful multi-team projects.
Strong technical judgment across one or more domains with the ability to coach managers and senior ICs through ambiguous critical decisions.
Experience establishing high engineering standards for quality reliability and long-term maintainability.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; effective at communicating up down and across functions.

Exceptional candidates will have...

Experience leading teams in game studios and operate live games as a service.
Experience leading both product and platform/infrastructure teams and knowing when to invest in foundations vs. features.
A history of developing senior managers and future directors; recognized for building strong leadership benches.
Expertise guiding data- and experiment-driven product development at scale.

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.

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Director

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 tim...