Engineering Manager - Job Description
What you’ll be doing
- Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
- Coach and develop engineers, support them through regular feedback, mentorship, and career development, while creating an inclusive and collaborative team environment.
- Define and drive long-term vision, set the strategy for your teams, ensuring perfect alignment with company objectives and product priorities.
- Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities, partner closely with Product, Data, and Design to ensure teams focus on initiatives that deliver the greatest customer and business value.
- Own execution and delivery. Balance speed, quality, and reliability while ensuring teams consistently achieve desired outcomes.
- Provide technical leadership, guide system design and architectural decisions, help teams navigate trade-offs, and remove technical obstacles.
- Champion engineering best practices. Drive continuous improvements in code quality, operational excellence, development processes, and technology evolution.
- Collaborate cross-functionally, work with stakeholders across the broader business to maximize impact and align on priorities, strategy, and outcomes.
What you need to succeed
- 3-5+ years of experience in building, leading, and scaling development teams.
- People-Centric Approach and Team Building Skills: a passion for building high-performing teams and helping people grow. You know how to create alignment, foster psychological safety, provide actionable feedback, and develop engineers through coaching and mentorship.
- Strong technical judgment and systems thinking. You are comfortable driving architectural discussions, evaluating technical trade-offs, championing engineering best practices, and partnering with senior engineers on technical strategy.
- Product & Business Partnership: You're comfortable working closely with Product, Design, and Data partners to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, and drive measurable outcomes. You naturally connect technical decisions to user experience, business metrics, and company strategy.
- Results-Oriented: A track record of driving performance. You know how to motivate teams to set and achieve ambitious, business-focused, and measurable goals.
- Ethical Leadership: You lead by example, serving as the team's moral compass by demonstrating empathy, transparency, accountability, and a strong sense of ownership. You value honesty and fairness, creating a culture where people feel safe to challenge ideas, learn, and grow.
Why you’ll love it at Preply
- An open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture.
- A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com, Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development.
- A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance.
- Not in Barcelona? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub.
- Access to free mental health support platforms.
- Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain to promote and support well-being and physical health.
- The opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!).
Team description / tech stack
Meet the Team! At Preply, we build scalable and reliable applications using Python/Django, with a strong focus on data, A/B testing, and feedback from students and tutors to guide our decisions. We prioritize product quality through robust monitoring, metrics analysis, and continuous optimization. Thanks to our advanced CI/CD processes, we release code 50–60 times per day. We’ve reached 90%+ adoption of AI coding tools across engineering, and we’re now moving towards more autonomous, AI-Augmented development at scale. Engineers have direct access to the best tools available, with the freedom to use them fully and experiment as they build. As a fast-growing company, we face a wide range of technical challenges, giving our engineers plenty of opportunities to grow and make an impact, some of which we even share on our Engineering Blog. Please visit our Tech Radar and our YouTube channel to learn more about the technologies we use at Preply!
Who you are
Engineering Manager to join one of 2 high-impact tribes at Preply: Growth Tribe or Monetization Tribe, with impact on learner journey, subscriptions, bookings, payments, pricing, commissions, and tutor tools. You’ll help shape strategy, execution, and growth of teams working on products that directly impact millions of learners worldwide.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams
- Coach and develop engineers
- Define and drive long-term vision and strategy
- Identify opportunities and align with Product, Data, Design
- Own execution and delivery
- Provide technical leadership and system design
- Champion engineering best practices
- Collaborate cross-functionally
Benefits and perks
- Open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture
- Learning & Development budget and self-development time off
- Relocation package to Barcelona hub
- Mental health support platforms
- Gympass access
- Health insurance
