Software Engineering Manager

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Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. It’s personalized, practical, and focused on real-world impact.

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. 

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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 a proven track record of guiding, coaching and motivating engineers. You are organized and proactive with an ability to prioritize and organize work effectively for yourself and your team.

We continue to foster a workplace culture of “individually humble and collectively proud”, thus your leadership style should promote teamwork and collective action. 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

• Leading a team of engineers as part of the wider Product Platform portfolio focused on enabling application teams to build secure, compliant and operationally efficient products. 
• Continuously investing in our identity, privacy, anti-fraud and internal tooling solutions to keep us operationally efficient
• Ensure regulatory compliance, minimizing exposure risk and keeping us at a high level of Enterprise Grade to meet the expectation of our enterprise B2B clients.
• Building foundational product platform capabilities that solidify Udemy Business’ position as the top AI-powered upskilling solution in the industry.

 

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.
• 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.

 

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