Duolingo
Senior Engineering Manager, Notifications
🇺🇸 New York, NY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $200K - $360K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ October 30th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Lead the Notifications team focused on user growth and retention via personalized notifications.
- Co-lead a cross-functional team with a product manager and collaborate with data scientists and machine learning researchers.
- Drive project planning, execution, and success that improve daily active user metrics.
- Ensure high standards for engineering quality, scalability, and maintainability.
- Identify technical initiatives to enhance notification delivery reliability and efficacy.
- Develop and mentor engineers, align team goals, and provide candid performance feedback.
- Require 2+ years managing engineering teams and 5+ years in software development, preferably in content or animation creation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills are necessary.
- Salary range offered: $200,000 to $360,000 USD, inclusive of equity and benefits.
- Engage with the Engineering division, reporting on projects impacting over 130 million monthly active users.
Senior Engineering Manager, Notifications Full Description
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Itâs a big mission, and thatâs where you come in!
At Duolingo, youâll 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. Youâll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes â while doing work thatâs 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 a Senior Engineering Manager at Duolingo, you will own mission-critical projects from end to end, contribute to product strategy, and lead a team of world-class engineers.
You will lead and develop the Notifications team in the Retention Area within the Growth Pillar at Duolingo. The Notifications Team drives user growth and retention by delivering the right message at the right time through smart personalization and scheduling, while building and maintaining the notification infrastructure that reliably scales to 130M MAUs and beyond.
As a team lead, you will...
- Form a dynamic duo with your product manager counterpart to co-lead a cross-functional team. Youâll 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.
As a role manager, you will...
- Develop your team, deeply understanding each engineerâs 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 âwhyâ behind decisions, thoughtfully guiding your team through changes, and ensuring everyone understands their role in achieving team and company goals.
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 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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