Senior Software Engineering Manager

Tulip Interfaces • Somerville, MA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineering Manager leads the team responsible for Tulip Apps’ authoring experience and runtime. This includes the no-code app editor, publishing and governance features such as versioning and import/export, and the mission-critical runtime that runs Tulip apps. The team also owns backend services and integrations for Tulip’s Agentic AI chat experience, including infrastructure that grounds it in customer data.

The role owns delivery across the team’s product area, setting priorities and balancing speed with durability. The manager works closely with product, design, technical leads, and other collaborators to guide technical direction, architectural decisions, and customer-facing feature delivery. They maintain operational health, cultivate AI-first development practices, establish engineering standards, and hire, mentor, and grow a high-autonomy engineering team.

The position is based in Somerville, Massachusetts, in a hybrid work environment requiring at least three days per week in the office.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of SaaS software engineering experience, ideally with contemporary technology stacks and direct involvement in complex, stable backend infrastructure.
• At least 3 years of people-management experience leading a software team, including hiring, mentoring, and creating career opportunities.
• Hands-on experience leading cross-functional teams in technical and customer-facing feature delivery.
• Strong understanding of testing and deploying systems in multicloud and multitenant environments.
• Experience architecting systems that integrate agentic and generative AI capabilities.
• Familiarity with TypeScript, React, Redux, Node.js, Golang, MongoDB, Postgres, and Docker.
• Active use of AI tools in personal work and a perspective on how AI changes the way teams build.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent working experience.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery for the team’s area, including scoping, sequencing, unblocking, and balancing speed with durability.
• Collaborate closely with product and design as part of a product-threaded team.
• Work with tech leads to set technical direction and guide architectural decisions.
• Maintain operational health through on-call responsibilities, incident response, and paying down technical debt.
• Cultivate an AI-first development culture and continuously improve team velocity and quality.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a team capable of operating with high autonomy and quality.
• Establish engineering standards for testing, observability, and AI-driven development practices.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership, product management, operations and QA, and customer success.

Benefits

• Company equity.
• Competitive benefits package including health, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, AD&D insurance, flexible spending account, commuter benefits, parental leave, and 401(k).
• Flexible work schedule.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Learning & Development program.
• Virtual and in-office global company events and happy hours.
• Fitness subsidies.
• Dog-friendly office.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior