Senior Software Engineering Manager (Authoring & Apps)

Tulip Interfaces; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impactful work

Work/Life balance

Commuter benefits

Work-from-home stipend

Fitness subsidies

Healthcare, dental, vision

Job summary

Tulip Interfaces is seeking a senior engineering leader to own delivery for a team building web-enabled SaaS products and agentic AI capabilities. You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and collaborate with product, design, and customer teams to ship high-quality features.

You will help define architecture, raise velocity while maintaining quality, and drive AI-first development patterns across our multi-cloud stack.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in people management leading a software team
• Hands-on experience with cross-functional team leadership
• Active use of AI tooling in development practice
• Familiarity with tech stack: Typescript, React, Redux, Node.js, Golang, MongoDB, Postgres, Docker
• 7+ years of SaaS software engineering experience in modern stacks
• Experience architecting systems integrating agentic and generative AI capabilities
• Strong testing and deployment practices for multicloud/multitenant environments

Responsibilities

• Own delivery scope for your team’s surface area; set direction and unblock work
• Mentor and grow engineers; hire and create career opportunities
• Collaborate with product, design, infra, and customer teams on key projects
• Establish engineering standards: testing, observability, AI-driven development
• Ensure strong operational health: on-call, incident response, tech debt management

Skills

People management

Cross-functional leadership

AI tooling

Tech stack familiarity

SaaS experience

Multicloud deployment

System architecture

Education

BSc in CS or related field

Tools

Typescript

React

Redux

Node.js

Golang

MongoDB

Postgres

Docker

Job description

• The team owns the authoring experience and runtime for Tulip Apps — the no-code App editor, publishing and governance features like versioning and import/export, and the mission-critical runtime that every Tulip app runs on
• The team also owns the backend services and integrations behind Tulip’s Agentic AI chat experience, including the infrastructure that grounds it in customer data
• Own delivery for your team’s surface area — scoping, sequencing, unblocking, and making the trade-off calls between speed and durability. As a product threaded team, collaborate closely with product and design
• Work alongside tech leads to set technical direction and guide architectural decisions
• Maintain a strong operational health: on-call, incident response, and paying down tech debt before it becomes a tax on velocity
• Cultivate an AI-first development culture and continuously raise the bar on velocity and quality
• Hire, mentor, and grow a team capable of operating with high autonomy and quality
• Establish engineering standards: testing, observability, AI-driven development practices for the team
• Key Collaborators
• Engineering Leadership
• Product Management
• Operations & QA
• Customer Success

Benefits

• Impactful Work: Have a direct impact on product and culture
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible work and unlimited vacation policy, virtual company events and happy hours
• Additional Perks: Commuter benefits, a work-from-home stipend, fitness subsidies
• Competitive Benefits: Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Family-Friendly Policies: Parental Leave, 401K & Life Insurance
• Employee-Led Communities: Parents@Tulip, Hey Lady, Allies@Tulip and more

You possess strong technical acumen, people management skills, and a deep understanding of product business valueWith years of experience building and delivering web-enabled SaaS products, you’re passionate about mentoring engineersA collaborative, motivated self-starter, you’re ready to lead and bring your authentic self to workYou also love cross-functional collaboration with product, design, infrastructure, and customer teams on key projects3+ years in people management leading a software team, with experience hiring, mentoring, and creating career opportunities for your teamHands-on experience with cross-functional team leadership with technical and customer-facing feature deliveryActive use of AI tooling in your own practice, with a point of view on how it changes the way teams buildFamiliarity with our tech stack - including Typescript, React, Redux, Node.js, Golang, MongoDB, Postgres, and DockerBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experienceExperience architecting systems that integrate agentic and generative AI capabilities7+ years of SaaS software engineering experience, ideally in contemporary tech stacks, with direct involvement in complex and stable backend infrastructureStrong understanding of testing and deploying systems in multicloud / multitenant environments