Software Engineering Manager

This role is located in Somerville MA - We are a hybrid work environment and are in the office 3 days/per week.

Tulip the leader in AI-native frontline operations is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with composable connected apps leading to higher quality work improved efficiency and end-to-end traceability across operations. Tulips cloud-native no-code platform powered by embedded AI is driving the digital transformation of industrial environments through composable human-centric solutions that go beyond disrupting the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) category.

A spinoff out of MIT Tulip is headquartered in Somerville MA with offices in Germany Hungary Singapore and Israel. Tulip has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast award winner one of Energages Top Workplaces USA and one of Built In Bostons Best Places to Work and Best Midsize Places to Work.

About the role

Your leadership will be the driving force behind Tulips next core product this role youll lead the engineering team building Tulips new agent-native app-building producta greenfield effort that will redefine how customers compose deploy and operate apps on our platform. Youll work as the engineering leader alongside product and design navigate technical tradeoffs around long-running agents sandboxing and code execution and ship something publicly within the first few months. Youll also help shape how this team operates as a reference point for AI-driven development across the broader engineering org.

About you

You possess high levels of technical acumen people management skills and a keen desire to deeply understand the business value of what youre building. Youve honed your technical skills through years of building and delivering SaaS products and youre now energized by the chance to build at the edge of what AI models can do. Youre passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them grow and you bring strong opinions about agent architectures context management and building scalable systems. Youre a collaborative motivated self-starter who leads from the front and brings your authentic self to work.

What skills or experience do I need

• Experience building and scaling large SaaS products and complex distributed systems
• Expertise in contemporary tech stacks including React MongoDB and Postgres with experience deploying in multi-cloud and multi-tenant environments
• People management experience leading engineering teams with a track record of hiring mentoring and creating career opportunities
• Hands-on experience architecting systems that integrate agentic and generative AI capabilities including tool use context management sandboxed execution and long-running workflows
• Cross-functional leadership with product design and customer-facing teams to deliver features end-to-end
• Strong product-engineering instincts: you can prototype quickly prune scope and decide what to ship versus what to throw away

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture and delivery of Tulips new agent-native app-building product
• Hire mentor and grow a senior team capable of operating with high autonomy and quality from day one
• Establish engineering standards: testing observability AI-driven development practices for the team
• Partner with Infrastructure and other Engineering teams to evolve Tulips API surface and runtime so agents have what they need without compromising the existing platform
• Collaborate deeply with product and design as a product threaded team with shared ownership of outcomes
• Cultivate an AI-first development culture and continuously raise the bar on velocity and quality

Key Collaborators

• Product & Design
• Engineering leadership peers
• Infrastructure
• QA
• Tulip Customers and Customer-facing teams

Working At Tulip

Were building a strong diverse team that values hard work families and personal well-being. Benefits of working with us include:

• Direct impact on product and culture
• Company equity
• Competitive benefits package including Health Dental Vision Short-term Disability Long-term Disability Life Insurance AD&D FSA Commuter Benefits Parental Leave and 401(K)
• Flexible work schedule and unlimited vacation policy
• Virtual company events and happy hours
• Fitness subsidies
• Dog-friendly office

We are an equal opportunity employer. At Tulip we celebrate all. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. Help us build an inclusive community that will transform frontline operations.

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