Engineering Manager

At Preply, we’re all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it’s creating real impact.

We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we’re only getting started. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.

Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.

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. At Preply, 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, also visit our Tech Radar and our YouTube channel to learn more about the technologies we use at Preply!

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join one of 2 high-impact tribes at Preply:

Growth Tribe - owns a significant part of the learner journey, from helping students discover value on Preply and successfully start learning, to driving subscription conversion, engagement, retention, and long-term learner success.

Monetization Tribe is the center of Preply’s economic engine, owning the systems and experiences that drive how learners purchase, how tutors earn, and how the marketplace grows. From subscriptions, bookings, and payments to pricing, commissions, and tutor business tools, your teams’ work has a direct impact on revenue, retention, and marketplace health.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll help shape the strategy, execution, and growth of teams working on products that directly impact millions of learners worldwide.

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

• 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!).

• Care to change the world - We are passionate about our work and care deeply about its impact to be life changing.

• We do it for learners - For both Preply and tutors, learners are why we do what we do. Every day we focus on empowering tutors to deliver an exceptional learning experience.

• Keep perfecting - To create an outstanding customer experience, we focus on simplicity, smoothness, and enjoyment, continually perfecting it as every detail matters.

• Now is the time - In a fast-paced world, it matters how quickly we act. Now is the time to make great things happen.

• Disciplined execution - What makes us disciplined is the excellence in our execution. We set clear goals, focus on what matters, and utilize our resources efficiently.

• Dive deep - We leverage business acumen and curiosity to investigate disparities between numbers and stories, unlocking meaningful insights to guide our decisions.

• Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe today's best performance becomes tomorrow's starting point. We humbly embrace feedback and learn from setbacks.

• Raise the bar - We raise our performance standards continuously, alongside each new hire and promotion. We build diverse and high-performing teams that can make a real difference.

• Challenge, disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication, even when we don’t fully agree. We speak our minds, challenge when necessary, and fully commit to decisions once made.

• One Preply - We prioritize collaboration, inclusion, and the success of our team over personal ambitions. Together, we support and celebrate each other's progress.

Preply.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. That means that Preply will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status.