Engineering Manager

Where we work

Udemy 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 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 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 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 '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 role

Udemy is searching for an Engineering Manager that embodies our core values: authenticity, a drive for continuous learning, being results-oriented, lean into experimentation, and embodying the spirit of being individually humble, yet collectively proud. 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 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 manager within the portfolio, you will be leading and building a team 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

• Working 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.
• Demonstrated use of Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis/Elasticache, GraphQL, Datadog, Kubernetes Terraform, bringing a depth of knowledge and experience to deliver high quality results.
• Growing your team, their careers, and tracking their performance through 1-on-1s and annual reviews.
• Working with senior management to strategize resource allocation.
• Prioritize, delegate, and juggle multiple tasks concurrently.
• Incorporate feedback from your team and managers to continuously improve your team’s execution and ability to achieve your team’s goals.
• You will extend your networking skills within and beyond the organization - maintaining key relationships and providing mentoring to your team.

 

What you’ll have

• Demonstrated abilities in driving results, analytical problem solving, systems thinking, decision making, and active listening
• Technical expertise in Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis/Elasticache, GraphQL, Datadog, Kubernetes Terraform