Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

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Our mission is simple : to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use, whether they're picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.

Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you're excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you'll feel right at home.

Engineering Manager M3

About your skills

• Leadership : You lead with humility and clarity. You build an environment where individuals feel supported, heard, and proud of what they build together. You understand how to motivate and empower your team to do their best work.
• Execution : You ensure your team is focused and productive, translating high-level objectives into a clear roadmap. You prioritize effectively, manage complexity, and remove blockers so the team can execute with confidence.
• Technical Depth : You bring a strong engineering foundation to conversations. You can deep-dive into Frontend, Kotlin / Java, distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure, and use this fluency to make sound architectural decisions and coach your team.
• Systems Thinking : You approach problems holistically. You anticipate downstream impacts, think across services and domains, and help your team balance speed with scalability and reliability.
• Collaboration : You partner effectively with cross-functional peers. You are proactive in communicating progress, trade-offs, and risks with stakeholders, and represent your team with integrity and transparency.
• Growth Mindset : You value continuous improvementfor yourself, your team, and your processes. You seek and give feedback regularly, and you create space for learning, experimenting, and celebrating progress.
• Performance : You set expectations with your team. You hold yourself and your team members accountable. You coach team members by helping them set their goals in context of the team goals and guiding them to success. You build teams with the team goals in mind.

About you

You are a motivated, meticulous Engineering Manager with a focus on a team-oriented approach and exceptional problem-solving capabilities. Your values align with our emphasis on humility and collective pride. You have proven experience guiding and motivating technical teams, you are organized and proactive with an ability to prioritize tasks effectively not just for yourself, but for your entire team.

We continue to foster a workplace culture of lead the way, embody ownership, act as one team, relentless focus, and never stop learning. Your leadership style should encourage teamwork, collective effort, and accountability towards the teams' goals. We value every voice and it's important to us that your team members know their contributions are recognized. Your role demands continuous celebration of both small victories and huge successes, facilitating this interplay with our global team.

About this role

Udemy is searching for an Engineering Manager that embodies our core values : embody ownership, acting as one team, relentless focus, and never stop learning. We expect you to possess extensive knowledge relevant to your domain (i.e., software architecture, project management) and an impressive resolve to stay updated with industry trends and advancements. You should be proficient in Frontend technologies like React, NextJS and in backend technologies like Kotlin / Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis / Elasticache, GraphQL, Datadog, Kubernetes Terraform with a demonstrated ability to manage complex engineering projects with diverse teams by driving results, analytical problem solving, systems thinking, decision making, and active listening.

More than just managing, we expect you to inspire your team. In this role, you will be addressing complex tasks, guiding your team through projects with ambiguous parameters, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality services. You will play a crucial part in communicating technical complexities to stakeholders and representing your team's interests.

At Udemy, we live by the credo of 'we are always learning'. This is reflected in our commitment to continuous improvement and passion for knowledge-sharing. You are expected to embrace this spirit of growth, fostering a climate of constructive debates and encouraging your team to plug into our platforms for organizational learning. Being open to robust discussions and leveraging our solutions to facilitate team learning will be pivotal to your success in this role.

Within the Learn portfolio, our mission is to help learners advance their professional skills so they can accelerate their careers with confidence. As a senior manager within the portfolio, you will be leading and building a team of up to 9 team members across the US and Mexico to help our learners onboard onto our platform, identify their learning goals, find the right learning content for them, and enhance their skills. We do this by leveraging our platform from recommendations, skills guidance, and GenAI, to name a few. You would be instrumental in driving experiences that enable learners to achieve their goals and improve their lives through learning.

What you'll be doing

What you'll have

Hiring Compensation Range

$170,000 - $213,000 USD

Why work here?

You'll grow here. Learning is part of the job. You'll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you.

AI is real here. We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You'll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.

You'll own your work. We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don't need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.

You'll build with others. We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.

You'll see your impact. What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You've got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs?

Bring your curiosity. We'll bring the platform and the support. Let's LEARN together.

Our Benefits Start with U

Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our benefits pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer.

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. We understand that not everyone will match each of the qualifications