Senior Engineering Manager - Martech

Senior Engineering Manager - Martech 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! Preply is one of the largest advertisers in the EdTech space. Our Marketing Operations span dozens of languages, millions of creatives, and multiple acquisition channels. To run this engine efficiently, responsibly, and at scale, we rely on world-class marketing infrastructure. Within the Martech team, our mission is to improve the lives of our students and tutors. We enable exceptional learning outcomes for learners and help tutors thrive financially on the platform - while generating sustainable business value for Preply. We believe long-term business success is only possible when our students and tutors succeed first. As a Senior Engineering Manager for the Martech product, you’ll lead two squads (Scale and Tracking), owning the growth platforms that empower our Marketing and Growth teams to operate at full potential. Your teams will scale acquisition and conversion across Performance Marketing, SEO, and AI Search by building self-serve tools, automation, and AI-powered solutions on top of a robust, compliant tracking stack. You’ll work cross-functionally with Performance Marketing, SEO, Brand, Data, and Product teams to turn ideas into scalable, repeatable systems, ultimately enabling more learners to achieve their goals through personalized, high-quality learning on Preply. 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 https://medium.com/preply-engineering. Please, also visit our Tech Radar https://tech-radar.preply.com/?_ga=2.72086362.855941533.1670530539-1369760810.1670530539 and our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Preplyengineering-ie3bb to learn more about the technologies we use at Preply! WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING - Own the Martech domain as a multi-squad area. Set the long-term vision and strategy for how Preply uses technology, data and AI to scale acquisition, conversion and measurement across all growth channels. - Lead the evolution of Martech into a multi-team area by defining the future org design for Scale and Tracking, and preparing the organization to spin out additional squads in 2026. - Dive deep into complex problems while influencing senior stakeholders and aligning them around clear, data-driven decisions and trade-offs. - Create the conditions for autonomous and high-performing teams by bringing clear expectations, strong feedback culture, high-quality standards and disciplined use of engineering metrics. - Grow and inspire leaders in your area by setting development goals, mentor on both technical and leadership topics, and build a strong bench of successors as the organisation grows. - Champion engineering best practices across the stack and ensure strong reliability, observability and security, while driving disciplined execution, high code quality and sustained technical excellence. - Partner closely with Marketing Specialists, Brand, Product, Data, and Legal teams to co-own outcomes across growth ... (truncated, view full listing at source)