Where we WorkUdemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.About your skillsLeadership: 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 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 improvement-for yourself, your team, and your processes. You seek and give feedback regularly, and you create space for learning, experimenting, and celebrating progress.About youYou 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 'individually humble and collectively proud', thus your leadership style should encourage teamwork and collective effort. We value every voice and it's important to us that your team members know their contributions are recognised. Your role demands continuous celebration of both small victories and huge successes, facilitating this interplay with our global team.About this roleLeading a team of engineers as part of the wider Organization Success portfolio of teams that are focused on serving our Enterprise customer needs.Continuously improving the Enterprise Grade of our B2B platform to be a scalable upskilling solution for our largest customers, including many names from the Forbes 500 list who you will get a chance to work with directly.Building new capabilities that uniquely positions Udemy Business as the top AI-powered upskilling solution in the industry.What you'll be doingWorking with your engineering team along with your cross-functional partners in product, design, data science, product marketing, and others to build a roadmap, deliver features, manage execution, and identify areas for development.Using skills like driving results, analytical problem solving, systems thinking, decision making, and active listening to effectively lead engineering teams.Growing your team, their careers, and tracking their performance through 1-on-1s and annual reviews.Working with senior management to strategize resource allocation.Prioritizing execution of tasks and projects, delegating to your technical leads and other team members as appropriate.Incorporating feedback from your team and managers to continuously improve your team's execution and ability to achieve your team's goals.Extending your networking skills within and beyond the organization - maintaining key relationships and providing mentoring to your team.What you'll have1-3 years of experience managing software engineers with a focus on constant flow of feedback and career developmentExperience defining strategy, roadmaps and prioritising work in your area to deliver business valueExperience working in a highly collaborative environment that involves product managers, design and stakeholdersExperience with designing scalable systems with an emphasis on microservices and event-driven architectureExperience designing scalable, secure and performant APIs (REST, GraphQL)Experience with web application development in technologies such as HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript
