Engineering Manager

Department: Engineering

Location: London

Employment Type: FullTime

We power people’s progress.

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.

Meet the Team!

The Preply Engineering Team provides the tools to help unlock human potential through learning.

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.

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 hiring across different tribes and squads, such as Growth, Monetization and Learning!

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and grow two high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

• Coach and develop engineers through regular feedback, mentorship, and career growth opportunities, with a focus on creating an inclusive and collaborative environment.

• Define and drive the long-term vision and strategy for the teams, ensuring alignment with company goals and product direction.

• Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities in collaboration with Product, Data, and Design, ensuring teams are focused on the most valuable initiatives.

• Own execution and delivery, ensuring technical quality, reliability, and timely outcomes 

• Provide technical leadership: guide system design and architectural decisions, help navigate trade-offs, and remove technical blockers 

• Champion engineering best practices, from code quality to scalable processes and tech stack evolution

• Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across the business to amplify impact and ensure alignment on priorities and outcomes.

What you need to succeed

• Background: Degree in computer science, data science, mathematics, or a related field

• Experience: 3-5+ years of experience in building, leading, and scaling development teams

• People-Centric Approach and Team Building Skills: We’re looking for an individual with a passion for building strong, results-oriented teams and utilizing a team-based approach as a primary means of achieving results.

• Provide technical expertise: Driving engineering best practices, adoption of tools, and alignment with architectural standards. 

• Results-Oriented: Driving performance. Motivate team on setting and achieving ambitious, business-focused, and measurable goals.

• Ethical Leadership: Lead the team by example, demonstrating unwavering commitment to ethical behavior and integrity. Being a moral compass of a team, instill a culture that values honesty, fairness, and transparency in all engineering endeavors.

Why you’ll love it at Preply:

• 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;

• Access to free mental health support platforms;

• The opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!).

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Our Principles

• 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.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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.