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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineering Manager - **Company:** Tulip Interfaces, Inc. - **Location:** Somerville, MA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $220,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Node.Js, Software Engineering, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Multi-Cloud - **Published:** June 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/f92f8d3f-0b50-4000-8b3e-dd8560bc46dc ## About the Role 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., * Experience in building and scaling AI systems in production, including LLM fine-tuning and evaluation, agent orchestration and context management, retrieval pipelines and vector stores, tool invocation and MCPs, guardrails and safety layers, and end-to-end observability for non-deterministic systems * 2-3+ years of experience leading software development teams with strong hands-on technical leadership, architecting solutions, and staying close to the code. * 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 * 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 ## Description 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-an 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., * Own the technical architecture and delivery of Tulip's new agent-native app-building product * Hire, mentor, and grow a senior team capable of operating with high autonomy and quality from day one * Establish engineering standards: testing, observability, 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 and design 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 & Design * Engineering leadership peers * Infrastructure * QA * Tulip Customers and Customer-facing teams ## Related Videos - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! : Getting Started with Cypress in ReactJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/282-watch-tests-go-brrrr-getting-started-with-cypress-in-reactjs) - [Stop using Node.js like in 2020! 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