Senior Engineering Manager (GenAI & Agentic Platforms)

Preply; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Preply in the United States is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for GenAI and Agentic Platforms to lead two teams and drive production AI capabilities.

You'll own engineering strategy, partner with Product and Applied Science, and coach 8-12 engineers, shaping platform abstractions and operational standards.

This role requires strong technical judgment and a hands-on approach to architecture and reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple AI/ML engineering teams.
• Strong architectural and production-grade software skills.
• Ability to collaborate with Product, Applied Science, and Security teams.

Responsibilities

• Set long-term vision for GenAI Platform and the Agentic Platform.
• Partner with Product Manager across both teams to define outcomes and investments.
• Coach and develop approximately 8–12 engineers across two teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

GenAI platforms

People coaching

Job description

We power people’s progress.At Preply, we’re all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it’s creating real impact.We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we’re only getting started. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.

Meet the team!

AI Platform provides the shared foundations that help teams across Preply build, ship, and operate AI capabilities safely at scale. The area includes ML Platform, GenAI Platform, and Agentic Platform. You will lead GenAI and Agentic Platform: approximately 8-12 engineers across two teams, while partnering closely with ML Platform leadership.GenAI Platform owns shared model access, routing, evaluation, observability, prompt and configuration lifecycle, retrieval, grounding, and guardrails. Agentic Platform builds on those foundations with durable execution, tools, state, context, memory, permissions, human controls, agent evaluation, and runtime safety.The two teams share a Product Manager. Together, you will shape strategy, priorities, adoption, and outcomes; clarify what belongs in shared infrastructure versus product teams; and evolve the platform as models, frameworks, and company needs change. Learn more through our Engineering Blog, Tech Radar, and YouTube channel.

What you’ll be doing:

GenAI and Agentic AI are central to Preply's AI strategy. As the Senior Engineering Manager for GenAI Agentic Platforms, you'll own the engineering strategy, execution, and organizational health of two complementary teams that take AI workloads from experimentation to reliable production systems.This is a multi-team leadership role for a manager with strong technical judgment. You won't be the primary implementer, but you'll go deep on architecture and production AI, coach senior engineers, shape platform abstractions and operational standards, and partner with Product, Applied Science, Data, Security, and Engineering teams.

In this role, your responsibilities include:

• Set the long-term engineering vision for GenAI Platform and the Agentic Platform, ensuring they operate as a single, coherent platform.
• Partner with the Product Manager across both teams to define outcomes, prioritize investments, and measure the impact of the platforms.
• Lead and develop approximately 8-12 engineers across two teams through clear expectations, direct feedback, performance management, career g