About the role
Software Engineering Manager This role is located in Somerville, MA - We are a hybrid work environment and are in the office 3+ days/per week. Tulip , the leader in AI-native frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with composable, connected apps, leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Tulip’s cloud-native, no-code platform, powered by embedded AI, is driving the digital transformation of industrial environments through composable, human-centric solutions that go beyond disrupting the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) category. A spinoff out of MIT, Tulip is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany, Hungary, Singapore, and Israel. Tulip has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast award winner, one of Energage’s Top Workplaces USA, and one of Built In Boston’s “Best Places to Work” and “Best Midsize Places to Work.”
About
the role Your leadership will be the driving force behind Tulip’s next core product experience. In this role, you’ll lead the engineering team building Tulip’s new agent-native app-building product—a greenfield effort that will redefine how customers compose, deploy, and operate apps on our platform. You’ll work as the engineering leader alongside product and design, navigate technical tradeoffs around long-running agents, sandboxing, and code execution, and ship something publicly within the first few months. You’ll also help shape how this team operates as a reference point for AI-driven development across the broader engineering org. About you You possess high levels of technical acumen, people management skills, and a keen desire to deeply understand the business value of what you’re building. You’ve honed your technical skills through years of building and delivering SaaS products, and you’re now energized by the chance to build at the edge of what AI models can do. You’re passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them grow, and you bring strong opinions about agent architectures, context management, and building scalable systems. You’re a collaborative, motivated self-starter who leads from the front and brings your authentic self to work. What skills or experience do I need? Experience building and scaling large SaaS products and complex distributed systems Expertise in contemporary tech stacks including React, Node.js, MongoDB, and Postgres, with experience deploying in multi-cloud and multi-tenant environments People management experience leading engineering teams, with a track record of hiring, mentoring, and creating career opportunities Hands-on experience architecting systems that integrate agentic and generative AI capabilities, including tool use, context management, sandboxed execution, and long-running workflows Cross-functional leadership with product, design, and customer-facing teams to deliver features end-to-end Strong product-engineering instincts: you can prototype quickly, prune scope, and decide what to ship versus what to throw away Key
