Senior Engineering Manager, Quizlet

• This role requires comfort operating across multiple platforms and domains, navigating tradeoffs between product experience and revenue goals, and building systems that perform at global scale
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years leading engineering teams, ideally in a consumer-facing or platform-oriented environment
• Proven experience delivering business-critical systems that balance monetization goals, user engagement, and long-term technical sustainability
• Strong technical foundation in backend, full-stack, or mobile engineering, with the ability to engage deeply in system design and architectural tradeoffs
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in TypeScript, Swift, or Kotlin/Java, with a strong understanding of production-level mobile or web codebases and the ability to stay technically engaged with the team
• Hands-on experience designing and operating highly scalable, distributed systems that integrate with third-party services or SDKs
• Clear, effective communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and build teams that consistently grow in impact and ownership
• Deep understanding of agile execution, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration
• Strong track record of stakeholder management, aligning engineering delivery with product, revenue, and business priorities

Desirable

• Quizlet's Product Engineering organization builds the core experiences that help millions of students and teachers achieve their learning goals
• We collaborate across teams to achieve user-centric outcomes, focusing on developing intuitive interfaces, engaging learning tools, and robust, scalable systems
• You’ll be joining a passionate group of engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists dedicated to solving real-world educational challenges
• Our teams operate with autonomy, embrace experimentation, and are deeply committed to user-centric design
• We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team building Quizlet’s Ads platform team, a core part of how we sustainably support millions of learners worldwide
• This team owns the end-to-end ads stack, including programmatic and direct ads, video ads, SDK and exchange integrations, and partnerships with ad quality and measurement vendors,, across web, iOS, and Android
• In this role, you’ll lead and grow a high-performing group of engineers while partnering closely with Product, Data, Design, Revenue, and external partners to shape the ads roadmap and execution
• You’ll drive engineering excellence in systems that must balance scale, performance, reliability, user experience, and monetization impact
• As a senior leader, you’ll stay technically engaged, influencing architecture, guiding complex integrations, and leading initiatives that improve platform robustness and developer velocity
• Lead and directly manage a team of top-notch software engineers responsible for building and operating publisher advertising systems, including ad delivery, targeting, measurement, and platform capabilities across web and mobile
• Partner closely with Product, Data, Revenue, Design, and Ads business teams to define strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for ads and monetization initiatives
• Own execution and delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams, balancing revenue impact, user experience, platform reliability, and regulatory requirements
• Drive architectural decisions for high-scale, low-latency systems, including third-party integrations, experimentation frameworks, and platform abstractions
• Champion engineering excellence in areas such as system reliability, performance optimization, observability, and safe rollout practices
• Foster an inclusive, feedback-driven team culture that prioritizes psychological safety, technical growth, and career development
• Navigate ambiguity and cross-functional complexity, proactively unblocking dependencies across product lines, platforms, and external partners