Software Engineering Manager, Agentic AI

Tulip Interfaces • Somerville, MA

10h • Hybrid

About The Position

Tulip is hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead the team building a new agent-native canvas-based authoring and administration experience. The product maps customers’ production systems—including apps, data, automations, and surrounding context—and will change how customers compose, deploy, and operate applications on Tulip’s platform. The team also owns product-wide asset import and export, enterprise governance features, and integration with Tulip Library.

The manager will own the technical architecture and delivery of the agent-native app-building product, while hiring, mentoring, and growing a team of three to five engineers. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management and close collaboration with Product, Design, Infrastructure, QA, customers, and Customer Success. The manager will establish engineering standards for testing, observability, and AI-driven development, and help evolve Tulip’s API surface and runtime so agents can work effectively without compromising the existing platform.

The position is suited to a technically strong, product-minded leader with experience delivering SaaS products and distributed systems, building production AI systems, and developing engineers. Tulip describes the role as an opportunity to help establish an AI-first development culture and shape practices that can serve as a reference for the broader engineering organization. The role is based in Somerville, Massachusetts, in a hybrid environment requiring at least three days per week in the office.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including experience building and scaling large SaaS products and complex distributed systems.
• At least 3 years of people management experience leading a software development team.
• Hands-on technical leadership, including architecting solutions and staying close to the code.
• Experience building and scaling AI systems in production, including agent orchestration, context management, retrieval pipelines, vector stores, tool invocation, and MCPs.
• Experience designing and running evaluations for agentic systems, including defining success criteria, building task suites, and measuring reliability across multi-step tool use.
• Expertise with contemporary technology stacks including React, Node.js, MongoDB, and Postgres.
• Experience deploying in multi-cloud and multi-tenant environments.
• Active use of AI tooling in their own practice and a point of view on how it changes the way teams build.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent working experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture and delivery of Tulip’s new agent-native app-building product.
• Hire, mentor, and grow a team of three to five engineers, enabling them to operate with high autonomy and quality.
• Establish the team’s engineering standards for testing, observability, and AI-driven development practices.
• Partner with Infrastructure and other Engineering teams to evolve Tulip’s API surface and runtime to support agents without compromising the existing platform.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams as a product-threaded team with shared ownership of outcomes.
• Cultivate an AI-first development culture and continuously improve velocity and quality.

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 and unlimited vacation policy.
• Learning and Development program.
• Virtual and in-office global company events and happy hours.
• Fitness subsidies.
• Inclusive, dog-friendly office.

What This Job Offers

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