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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 29 days Duolingo's roles stay open a median of 38 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Duolingo's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Duolingo
- high 41 stale, 6 reposted of 89 open
- Hiring momentum
- 119 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Duolingo's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Duolingo.
About this role
As a Senior Engineering Manager at Duolingo, you will lead a cross-functional team focused on enhancing the core language learning experience or monetization strategies. Your role involves driving project execution from specification to implementation, utilizing data-driven experimentation to inform product improvements, and fostering a collaborative team culture. You will also set engineering quality standards and manage tech debt while aligning with product management on strategic priorities and success metrics.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Duolingo as an employer.
What you need
- Experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers
- Track record of shipping multi-engineer, multi-week+ projects with measurable business impact
- Strong product instincts and comfort in highly experimental, data-driven environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, design, and data
- Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture and implementation trade-offs
- Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY
Nice to have
- Experience leading cross-functional teams focused on driving core product outcomes in consumer products
- Experience setting team OKRs and operating cadences that consistently deliver outsized impact on company-level metrics
- Background dealing with ambiguity and managing teams or projects with broad cross-functional scope
Worth weighing
- No specific benefits listed in the posting
- Salary range is dependent on various factors and subject to change
- Base salary supplemented by equity compensation
- No clear indication of remote work options outside of Pittsburgh or New York
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Listed by Duolingo on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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