# Senior Engineering Manager, Retention

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: Pittsburgh, PA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $204,000-$306,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team in the Retention area. You will co-lead a cross-functional team with a Product Manager co-lead to improve learner habit formation and long-term engagement, while owning the team's roadmap, execution, and outcomes.

**Responsibilities:**

- Co-lead a cross-functional team with your product partner, aligning on strategy, priorities, and success metrics for retention and habit-building features.

- Drive execution of projects from spec to implementation, experimentation/analysis, and ongoing ownership, while ensuring system reliability, scalability, and observability.

- Use data and rapid experimentation to inform decisions; partner with internal stakeholders to design A/B tests and translate insights into product improvements that measurably impact retention KPIs.

- Attract, grow, and retain diverse engineering talent; provide clear expectations, coaching, and career development, and build a healthy, inclusive team culture.

- Set engineering quality standards and processes that balance speed and long-term maintainability; proactively manage tech debt, product quality, and operational excellence.

- Collaborate closely with product, design, research, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive learner experiences across in-app and out-of-app surfaces.

- Define team OKRs, ruthlessly prioritize, and remove roadblocks so the team ships impactful work that moves company metrics.

**Requirements:**

- 3+ years of experience leading, managing, and building a team of software engineers, with demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain talent.

- A track record of shipping multi-engineer, multi-week+ projects with measurable business impact, balancing speed and quality.

- Strong product instincts and comfort in highly experimental, data-driven environments; experience defining metrics and running A/B tests with analytics or data science partners.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, design, and data; clear written specs and status updates.

- Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture and implementation trade-offs, evolve quality standards, and mentor engineers on best practices.

- The ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.

**Benefits:**

- Salary Range: $204,000-$306,000 USD

- Equity compensation and world-class benefits

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- team management
- product strategy
- data analysis
- A/B testing

### Nice to have
- retention
- engagement
- growth
- habit-formation features

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