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Lingokids is a company that has the mission to “help parents raise amazing kids”. Our star product is a freemium subscription-based application for kids from 2 to 8 years old, that contains interactive activities to help kids develop what we call “21st-century skills”: from empathy to engineering foundations, math to mindfulness, robots to reading…). 

Apart from the application, Lingokids also expands to other content like Podcasts for kids, music content on Youtube, and some physical products like board games. You can also see Lingokids name in partnerships with other brands like Amazon or UNICEF, and our brand appeared in collaboration with H&M, Ikea, McDonalds…

We’ve come to be pretty relevant in the industry, we’ve reached 65 million downloads of the app and more than 2 million subscribers on YouTube. We have also been prized two years in a row as the number 1 learning app for kids; and we have been certified as a kidSAFE product. 

The Engineering Manager role at Lingokids is a hands-off position responsible for the well-being and productivity of our team members in the User Monetization team. 

More specifically, you will:

• Manage a team of 4-8 engineers, enabling their day-to-day work and ensuring their professional development.
• Provide support to engineers within the team: helping to scope and prioritise work, mentoring, assisting in resolving blockers, and arbitrating any technical disputes.
• Take responsibility for delivery management and ensure the team is performing effectively by shipping a quality product often.
• Collaborate closely with the team’s engineers, Product Manager and other stakeholders to ensure that we’re building the right things.
• Support the team’s senior engineers to ensure the tech strategy exists and is also prioritised, that the system is maintainable and tech debt managed
• Guide engineers towards practical, incremental designs that can garner useful external feedback quickly, without compromising on the long-term flexibility of the system.
• Assist the team in setting, tracking and achieving measurable goals which align with the company strategy.
• Maintain morale and strong engineering culture, ensuring wellbeing and retention within your team.
• Attract candidates and grow the team through hiring. Improve our hiring practices and processes.

About you:

The ideal teammate for us would be someone who believes that communication, empathy, inquisitiveness, and open-mindedness are fundamental to being successful in any endeavour.

You should have:

• The ability to manage and lead with empathy, supporting those on your team to achieve their best. You are a Servant Leader.
• Experience managing and leading a team of 4+ engineers.
• The ability to attract, hire and retain top engineering talent
• Technical background and strong analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to partner with people from different disciplines within the organisation.
• A good understanding of how a business operates and the ability to reason about tradeoffs.
• Experience working within a large-scale consumer product is preferable but not required.

English is a must. We are a multicultural team, and we are providing a service in English so, we don't care about certificates, but we expect you to be able to communicate fluently.

You should feel equally comfortable communicating in long-form writing. Given the circumstances, we have become a fully remote company. We believe that being articulate in both spoken and written long-form asynchronous communication is key to working efficiently together.

Experience working closely with non-technical stakeholders to refine requirements and bring them to life is a must. We expect our Engineering Manager to be the driving force for the entire development lifecycle.

At Lingokids, our Engineering team is dedicated to delivering an exceptional user experience. We work tirelessly to build and improve upon the various components that make up our platform.

Some of the exciting things we're working on include the following:

• Building an API that delivers a personalized learning experience tailored to each child's needs.
• Developing a user-friendly mobile app that's beloved by children and parents worldwide.
• Collaborating with our Data Platform team to support the analytics needs and gain insights on user engagement.
• Maintaining high-quality standards with our incredible team of engineers and QA specialists.
• Bringing our games to life with Unity, a critical component of our Playlearning™ experience.

Whether through the API, mobile app, data platform, or Unity development, our engineering team ensures that every aspect of Lingokids is polished and easy to use.

🛠️ Our tech stack:

• Backend - Ruby On Rails
• Mobile (Frontend) - React Native
• Interactive (Gaming) - Unity3D
• Data - Python & Scala
• QA - Manual & Automation testing (Appium with Node.js)
• Infrastructure: AWS

We try to be language agnostic in our hiring process. We want to embrace the Product Engineering mindset more than having people experts in a specific programming language.

Our Product Engineering team is a talented group of approximately 30 individuals who collaborate within multidisciplinary teams composed of: Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Product Engineers, Product Designers, and Quality Assurance experts. Additionally, they also collaborate with User Research, Data Analysts, and Customer Support, who play a crucial role in supporting informed decision-making.

This group of people is divided into four distinct units, based on the stage of the user lifecycle, to optimize every stage of the acquisition-to-user engagement funnel.

• New User Monetization: this team focuses on building a positive experience for brand new users who are installing Lingokids for the first time to see the benefits of Lingokids Plus.
• Existing User Monetization: this team focuses on parents who are already using Lingokids, to see the added benefits of Plus and convert. They work on understanding the willingness to subscribe of our users and creating and surfacing the value of Plus.
• User Retention: they focus on evolving our freemium product to ensure we can continue to provide a delightful experience and engage our users with our content.
• Market Expansion: this team focuses on identifying and validating opportunities to grow the business understanding the needs of our audience.

The hallmark of our approach is a flexible, lightweight process that allows each team the autonomy to adapt it to their specific requirements. In broad terms, we strongly endorse the early involvement of cross-functional team members (or representatives from each discipline) to ensure that the discovery and delivery phases occur concurrently. Our guiding principles are deeply influenced by Agile methodologies.