Software Engineering Lead (Agentic AI)

Tulip Interfaces; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impactful Work

Work/Life Balance

Commuter benefits

Work-from-home stipend

Healthcare & dental

Job summary

Tulip Interfaces is seeking an Engineering Leader to own the architecture and delivery of its agent-native app-building platform. You will hire and coach 3–5 engineers and drive standards for testing, observability, and AI-driven development.

You will partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and customers to ensure high-quality releases and scalable systems in a multi-cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years experience in software engineering, with large SaaS and distributed systems.
• 3+ years of people management experience leading a software development team.
• Experience building and scaling AI systems in production, including agent orchestration and context management.
• Expertise in contemporary tech stacks and multi-cloud deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own technical architecture and delivery of Tulip’s new agent-native app-building product.
• Hire, mentor, and grow a team of 3-5 engineers with high autonomy and quality.
• Establish engineering standards: testing, observability, and AI-driven development practices.
• Partner with Infrastructure and other Engineering teams to evolve Tulip’s API surface and runtime.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Customer-facing teams to ensure shared outcomes.
• Cultivate an AI-first development culture and raise velocity and quality.

Skills

People management

Software engineering

AI systems experience

Architectural design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

React

Node.js

MongoDB

Postgres

Job description

• The team is responsible for a new agent-native canvas based authoring and administration experience that maps customer production systems — its apps, data, automations, and the context around them — an effort that will redefine how customers compose, deploy, and operate apps on our platform
• The team also handles the asset import/export experience across the product, enterprise governance features, and integration with Tulip Library
• Own the technical architecture and delivery of Tulip’s new agent-native app-building product
• Hire, mentor, and grow a team of 3-5 engineers capable of operating with high autonomy and quality from day one
• Establish engineering standards: testing, observability, and AI-driven development practices for the team
• Partner with Infrastructure and other Engineering teams to evolve Tulip’s API surface and runtime so agents have what they need without compromising the existing platform
• Collaborate deeply 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 raise the bar on velocity and quality
• Key Collaborators
• Product Management & Design
• Engineering Leadership
• Infrastructure & QA
• Tulip Customers and 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 bring high levels of technical acumen and people management skills, years of building and delivering SaaS products, and you’re energized by the chance to build at the edge of what AI models can do

You have strong opinions about agent architectures, context management, and building scalable systems, and you’re passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them grow

You’re a collaborative, motivated self-starter who leads from the front, brings your authentic self to work, and wants to help shape how this team operates as a reference point for AI-driven development across the broader engineering org

You have strong product-engineering instincts — you can prototype quickly, prune scope, and decide what to ship versus what to throw away

Expertise in contemporary tech stacks including React, Node.js, MongoDB, and Postgres, with experience deploying in multi-cloud and multi-tenant environments

3+ years of people management experience leading a software development team, with hands-on technical leadership, architecting solutions, and staying close to the code

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience

Experience building and scaling AI systems in production, including, agent orchestration and context management, retrieval pipelines and vector stores, tool invocation and MCPs

Active use of AI tooling in your own practice, with a point of view on how it changes the way teams build

7+ years experience in software engineering, with experience building and scaling large SaaS products and complex distributed systems

Experience designing and running evaluations for agentic systems — defining success criteria, building task suites, and measuring reliability across multi-step tool use