Senior Engineering Manager - AI

Atlys; Delhi Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Relocation support

Office amenities

Job summary

Atlys is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Backend, AI, and Infrastructure teams. You will set technical direction, build leaders, and ensure scalable systems as product traffic grows.

You will hire and mentor engineers, drive reliability, and accelerate delivery with IaC, CI/CD, and strong observability. Join a fast-growing company shaping global travel intelligence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing multiple teams.
• Proven track record building and scaling cloud platforms with focus on reliability and velocity.
• Strong experience hiring, coaching and developing senior engineers and managers.
• Deep technical exposure to AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability or SRE systems.

Responsibilities

• Scale the core backend architecture to handle growing traffic and global scale.
• Turn AI into a core product by embedding intelligence across Atlys.
• Improve infrastructure and developer velocity with better deployment, observability, and tooling.
• Build an engineering organization that scales by hiring, coaching, and setting a high technical bar.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud platforms understanding

Hiring and coaching

Ownership and execution

AWS or GCP experience

Kubernetes

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

About Atlys

Our mission is to enable every person on Earth to travel freely.
Travel should feel exciting. Instead, too much of it is still defined by paperwork, uncertainty, and processes that were never designed for travellers.
Atlys is changing that.
We’re building an AI-first platform that removes friction and uncertainty from travel. To date, we’ve processed visas for 1M+ travellers across 127 countries. But we’re still early.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead three of the most critical engineering teams at Atlys: Backend, AI and Infrastructure.
You’ll own these teams end to end, setting technical direction, building strong engineering leaders, and ensuring the systems behind Atlys can scale as our product, traffic and complexity grow.
This is a senior leadership role spanning core product systems, AI capabilities and platform reliability. You’ll work closely with Engineering leadership, Product and other teams to turn ambitious product goals into fast, reliable execution.

The Job

• Scale the core backend architecture to handle growing traffic, product complexity and global scale without compromising performance or reliability.


• Turn AI into a core product and operational advantage by building systems that embed intelligence across Atlys.


• Strengthen infrastructure and developer velocity through better deployment systems, observability, automation and internal tooling.


• Build an engineering organisation that scales by hiring exceptional talent, developing managers and senior engineers, and setting a high technical bar.


• Reduce operational complexity through platform engineering and Infrastructure as Code, enabling product teams to ship faster with less dependency.

The Ideal Candidate

You’ll Likely Thrive In This Role If You

• Have 10+ years of engineering experience, including experience leading multiple engineering teams or managers in a high-growth environment.


• Have built and scaled cloud platforms or consumer technology where reliability, performance and engineering velocity were critical.


• Have a strong track record of hiring, coaching and growing engineers and engineering leaders, while maintaining a high bar for ownership and execution.


• Bring deep experience across AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability or SRE systems.


• Have worked on developer platforms, automation systems, AI infrastructure or large-scale signals/data platforms.

What You Can Expect

Atlys is built by a small team with outsized ambition, high ownership, and an obsession with doing great work.

Here’s What You Can Expect

• Competitive compensation and equity so you participate in the value you help create.


• Comprehensive health insurance covering you and your family, plus annual preventive health check-up on us.


• A thoughtful leave policy with paid time off and company holidays, because great work also requires real time off.


• Lunch, high tea and dinner at the office, so the basics are taken care of while we build together.


• Learning & development credits to invest in courses, books, conferences and tools that help you get better at your craft.


• Relocation support to make moving closer to the team as seamless as possible.


• Great tools to do your best work, including high-spec equipment and software.


• An office designed for more than just work, with pickleball, table tennis, PlayStation, an arcade game room, an F1 simulator and even a full flight simulator.

Our values shape how we make decisions, work together and build for travelers. The bar is high, the pace is fast, and the way we work is deliberate. Read them before you apply. If this environment energizes you, you’ll probably thrive here. If it doesn’t, it’s better to know that upfront.

Come build the intelligence layer for global travel