Engineering Director, Long-Form Learning

undefined ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering • $240,000 PA - $432,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Engineering Director at Duolingo, you will lead a talented team to shape the future of language learning. This role involves strategic thinking, technical skill, and team leadership, overseeing project management, driving technical direction, and fostering growth. You'll lead the Long-form Learning Area, focusing on immersive experiences like DuoRadio, Stories, and the Learning Path, helping millions build real-world language skills.
Must have:
  • Supervise teams under the Long-form Learning Area to help drive strategies and roadmap
  • Develop and manage other managers
  • Balance ambitious 0->1 product innovations, thoughtful iteration on existing features, and engineering excellence work
  • Provide guidance on scalable, high-quality system design and technical decisions
  • Collaborate with product managers, learning scientists, designers, and other stakeholders
Perks:
  • limitless learning opportunities
  • mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds
  • variety of projects with large scopes
  • doing work that’s both fun and meaningful
  • equity compensation
  • world-class benefits

Job Details

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

At Duolingo, you’ll 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. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

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About the role

As an Engineering Director at Duolingo, you'll have the unique opportunity to shape the future of language learning by leading a talented team of engineers in developing innovative solutions. This role combines strategic thinking, technical skill, and team leadership, requiring you to oversee project management, drive technical direction, and foster a culture of collaboration and growth

Long-form Learning Area

  • You’ll lead engineering for Duolingo’s Long-form Learning Area within our Language Learning Pillar, focused on some of our most immersive and impactful language learning experiences that help millions of users achieve their language goals. In this role, you’ll oversee the development of new long-form formats and the evolution of flagship products like DuoRadio, Stories, and the Learning Path. These experiences are designed to help millions of learners build real-world skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
  • You will...
  • Supervise teams under the Long-form Learning Area to help drive strategies and roadmap
  • Develop and manage other managers
  • Balance ambitious 0->1 product innovations, thoughtful iteration on existing features, and engineering excellence work
  • Provide guidance on scalable, high-quality system design and technical decisions
  • Collaborate with product managers, learning scientists, designers, and other stakeholders
  • You have...
  • Experience developing and leading software engineering teams and setting technical direction
  • Consistent track record managing managers and mentoring technical leaders
  • Extensive experience in rapid-growth, consumer-facing, data-driven companies
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced, and unstructured settings
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

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 accommodations@duolingo.com.

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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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.

Salary Range:

$240,000—$432,000 USD

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About The Company

Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.


Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. The app has been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best.


Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives.


Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated. 


With over 500 million learners we have unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Our teams of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve our effectiveness. We’re building a future in which the highest-quality education is accessible to all. 


Duolingo has raised US $138 million from investors including Union Square Ventures, Capital G (formerly Google Capital), NewView Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Drive Capital, Ashton Kutcher and Tim Ferriss.


Duolingo has been named to: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work (2023), Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators (2022), Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company (2022), Best Machine Learning Startups for by Glassdoor (2020), Forbes' "Next Billion Dollar Startups" (2019), CNBC's Disruptor 50 (2018, 2019), Fortune's "Change the World" list (2019), TIME Magazine's Genius Companies (2018), Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies" (2017, 2018, 2020), Inc.'s "Best Places to Work" (2018), Entrepreneur's "Top Company Cultures" (2018).

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