Manager, Software Engineering

Job Title

Engineering Manager

Career Architecture Tier

30

Location

Remote in Spain or Poland

Job Summary

Speaking Tutor is an AI-powered conversational practice product that helps students build real English-speaking confidence. Students engage in adaptive AI conversations, receive detailed pronunciation and fluency feedback, and develop communicative competence - all in a safe, judgment-free environment.

Our first large-scale classroom research (109 students, 145 conversations, 13 teachers across Italy and Turkey) validated core product-market fit - 81% of students felt good speaking with the tool, 70% valued the personalised feedback, and teachers showed strong enthusiasm. The research also surfaced real challenges: reliability, adaptive difficulty for mixed-ability classrooms, conversation scaffolding, and AI naturality. Solving these requires an engineering leader who understands fullstack product deliver...