Senior Engineering Manager, App Builds

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.

---

About the role

As an engineering manager in the Client Platform Area, you will lead one of our teams in supporting the engineering needs of the rest of Duolingo. You will craft and implement a vision for the future of the iOS and Android build systems, collaborating with product partners and engineering teams across the company.

App Builds:

• This team is dedicated to empowering developers to ship faster by optimizing client build systems to achieve faster performance, enhanced reliability, and measurable improvements in build time and failure rate.

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.
• Build and leverage tools to create a highly available, efficient, and optimized mobile build workflow to enable rapid product development.
• Drive explorations of new build system technologies to decrease mobile build times.
• 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...

• Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers.
• Strong background in native mobile development on Android and/or iOS, including experience with Gradle, Bazel, or large iOS/macOS projects.
• 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 or managing performant mobile CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Github Action workflow creation and infrastructure.
• Experience with telemetry and observability tooling like OpenTelemetry, Develocity, Honeycomb, or Prometheus.

---

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.

By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.

Sign up for job alerts here.

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:

$177,700—$300,000 USD