Senior Engineering Manager (GenAI & Agentic Platforms)

About the Position

Senior Engineering Manager (GenAI & Agentic Platforms)

At Preply, we are dedicated to creating transformative learning experiences. We empower people to discover the magic of personalized learning and stay motivated to grow. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled, and we are creating real impact. With our recent unicorn status and a $150M Series D funding, we are accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning.

Responsibilities

As the Senior Engineering Manager for GenAI & Agentic Platforms, you will:

• Set the long-term engineering vision for GenAI Platform and the Agentic Platform, ensuring they operate as a single, coherent platform.
• Partner with the Product Manager across both teams to define outcomes, prioritize investments, and measure the impact of the platforms.
• Lead and develop approximately 8-12 engineers across two teams through clear expectations, direct feedback, performance management, career growth, and coaching.
• Own hiring quality, team composition, evolving team boundaries, and operating models as the platforms and company change.
• Guide architecture across model access, evaluation, observability, retrieval, agent orchestration, tools, state, memory, permissions, and control planes.
• Translate strategy into realistic plans, balancing foundational investment with near-term product needs while surfacing trade-offs and maintaining speed, quality, and predictability.
• Align senior stakeholders across Product, Applied Science, Data, Security, and Engineering on platform standards, build-vs-buy decisions, and shared priorities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management and experience leading multiple teams or a multi-squad technical area.
• A track record of hiring, coaching, and retaining high-performing teams.
• Strong technical depth in platform engineering, backend or distributed systems, ML infrastructure, or developer infrastructure.
• Practical experience with production GenAI or Agentic systems and the ability to reason about model access, evaluation, observability, retrieval, agent orchestration, tool use, state, permissions, reliability, cost, and safety.
• AI Expertise: You use Agentic AI beyond code generation to support architecture, planning, and decision-making, while retaining human judgment for architecture, people decisions, business logic, and security, and establishing quality gates and safety nets for team workflows.
• Experience leading platform products, with a strong instinct for self-service, API design, developer experience, adoption, and avoiding unnecessary complexity.
• Clear communication and stakeholder leadership, with the ability to align teams with different incentives, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and revisit assumptions as the ecosystem changes.

Nice to Have

• Experience managing teams that built AI or ML platforms used by multiple teams.
• Experience with agent frameworks or durable workflow technologies such as LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, or Temporal.
• Hands-on familiarity with GenAI evaluation and observability, prompt or model lifecycle, retrieval systems, multi-provider routing, or open-model serving.
• Experience making build-vs-buy decisions without locking the organization into one provider or framework.
• Experience measuring platform success through adoption, customer outcomes, and engineering leverage rather than infrastructure delivery alone.

We Offer

• Open, collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture.
• Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com.
• Learning & Development budget, including time off for your self-development.
• Competitive financial package with equity and leave allowance.
• Opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors from over 175 countries through language learning and teaching.

About the Company

Preply.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. That means that Preply will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.