Senior 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 You

You’re a hands-on engineering leader who blends technical depth with a genuine passion for growing people. You’ve spent years building and shipping SaaS products, and you know what it takes to deliver clean, reliable code at scale. You’re energized by mentoring engineers, helping them grow into the next version of themselves, and creating the conditions for your team to do their best work.

You thrive in cross-functional environments — partnering naturally with product, design, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams. You bring your authentic self to work, say what you think in real time, and trust the people closest to the work to make the call.

What Skills Do I Need?

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 1+ year managing or tech-leading a team of engineers
• Hands-on experience building and shipping production SaaS products with modern web stacks (e.g., React, Node.js, MongoDB/Postgres)
• A track record of delivering technical projects end-to-end — scoping, executing, and shipping clean, well-tested code in distributed systems
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, give meaningful feedback, and create growth opportunities
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, and customer-facing teams to ship customer-impacting features

Key Responsibilities

Lead and grow your team

• Manage a team of software engineers — hiring, mentoring, running 1:1s, and creating clear paths for career growth
• Set the bar for engineering quality, run a healthy on-call and incident response practice, and foster a culture of feedback and continuous improvement
• Partner with engineering leadership peers to scale our team and uphold our engineering culture as we grow

Deliver Tulip’s product

• Drive execution on a meaningful slice of Tulip’s product surface area, working with product and design to scope work and navigate tradeoffs
• Stay technically engaged — review designs, unblock the team on hard problems, and contribute to architectural decisions
• Help architect and ship product capabilities that integrate generative and agentic AI in our core platform

Collaborate across Tulip

• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams on systems that scale across multicloud and multitenant environments
• Work with QA and customer-facing teams to ensure what we ship meets the bar for reliability and customer value
• Bring insights from customers and the field back into the roadmap, in true gemba fashion

Key Collaborators

• Product & Design
• Engineering leadership peers
• QA
• Customer-facing teams

Working At Tulip

We’re building a strong, diverse team that values hard work, families, and personal well-being. Benefits of working with us include:

• Direct impact on product and culture
• Company equity
• Competitive benefits package including Health, Dental, Vision, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Life Insurance, AD&D Insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Commuter Benefits, Parental Leave, and 401(K)
• Flexible work schedule and unlimited vacation policy
• Fitness subsidies
• Dog-friendly office

We are an equal opportunity employer. At Tulip, we celebrate all. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Help us build an inclusive community that will transform frontline operations.

The compensation information displayed on each job posting reflects the range for new hire pay rates for the position across all US locations. Within the range posted, actual compensation will be determined depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge & skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, market compensation data, and internal equity. Expected compensation ranges for this role may change over time. The salary range for this position is $160,000 - $200,000 per year.

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