Software Engineer Lead, Tulip Interfaces
Projects
$160-200k
+ Company equity
3+ days a week in office (Somerville, MA)
Global operations management platform
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Global operations management platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-200k
+ Company equity
3+ days a week in office (Somerville, MA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To democratize technology and empower those closest to operations to solve problems.
Role
Who you are
- 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 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Tulip’s frontline operations platform is a connected data and process management tool that lets manufacturers create their own visual and interactive apps that connect with machines, tools, sensors, people and the systems used in a production or logistics process in a physical location.
Tulip gives frontline engineers the ability to address their own shop floor needs, guiding workflows and adapting the apps as things change or improvements are made. Customers only pay for the stations they need, driving better cost efficiencies and the ability to start small and scale up. Its no-code platform and powerful integrations allow connection to new and legacy machinery as well as leveraging the Internet of Things. This has attracted partnerships with the likes of Microsoft and AWS.
Tulip aims to be a next-generation leader in frontline operations, which currently represents a $150B market opportunity. The company's next steps include integrating the recently acquired smart search company Akooda into its platform, as well as further expansion into small and medium enterprise businesses in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. It plans to significantly increase its headcount to support growth as the low/no code platform marketplace is tipped to hit more than $84 billion by 2027.
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Insights
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2026
$120m
SERIES D
Aug 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $290.9m
Company benefits
- Have a direct impact on product and culture
- Flexible work and unlimited vacation policy, virtual company events and happy hours
- Commuter benefits, a work-from-home stipend, fitness subsidies
- Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
- Parental Leave, 401K & Life Insurance
- Parents@Tulip, Hey Lady, Allies@Tulip and more
Company HQ
Assembly Square, Somerville, MA
Leadership
Natan Linder
(Co-Founder & CEO)They served in the IDF as a System Engineer for 3 years before working as a Software Engineer for 4 years. They worked at Samsung, Formlabs, MIT Media Lab, and RightHand Robotics before co-founding Tulip in September 2014.
Rony Kubat
(Co-Founder & CIO)Having taken a Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT, they started working at MIT Media Lab in 2012. They have served as CTO of Tulip since 2014, alongside being a Media Lab Research Affiliate.
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