About the role
As an engineering manager in the Platform Area, you will lead one of our teams in supporting the engineering needs of the rest of Duolingo.

Client Platform, Application Stability and Performance:
This team is charged with improving and maintaining the stability and performance of our Learning application across the Android and iOS platforms. The team builds and owns the tooling that integrates metrics into our experiment analyses to automate finding code areas that need attention and leads architectural initiatives to reinvent the slowest parts of the app.
As the Engineering Manager you will craft and implement a vision for maintaining a performant and stable app for Duolingo’s learners, collaborating with product partners and engineering teams across the company.

You will…

Lead a multi-disciplinary team of iOS and Android engineers.
Deliver and maintain a long term roadmap for work within the team and coordinate that planning with product engineering throughout the company.
Provide a unified set of frameworks, tools, and accompanying processes that enable teams to observe and improve the Duolingo mobile experience.
Leverage AI to help drive technical projects and provide innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment.
Guide, prioritize, and communicate the team’s quarterly objectives and accomplishments to peer leaders and the broader engineering organization.
Mentor engineers and help cultivate their career aspirations.

You have…

2+ years of experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers.
8+ years in software development on Android and/or iOS, including using native and 3rd party tooling to analyze and improve application performance and stability.
Have a record of owning the execution of successful technical projects that span multiple engineers over multiple weeks.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Exceptional candidates will have…

Experience creating performance pipelines integrated into CI/CD workflows.
Experience building custom internal tooling for mobile developers.
Deep understanding of ANRs and profiling tools such as Perfetto or Xcode Instruments.

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