Senior Engineering Manager (GenAI & Agentic Platforms)

The role

You will lead the GenAI and Agentic Platform teams, managing approximately 8-12 engineers. You will own the engineering strategy, execution, and organizational health to move AI workloads from experimentation to production systems.

What you will do

• Set the long-term engineering vision for GenAI and Agentic Platforms.
• Partner with the Product Manager to define outcomes and prioritize investments.
• Lead and develop approximately 8-12 engineers through coaching and performance management.
• Own hiring quality, team composition, and operating models.
• Guide architecture across model access, evaluation, observability, retrieval, and agent orchestration.
• Translate strategy into realistic plans balancing foundational investment and product needs.
• Align senior stakeholders on platform standards and build-vs-buy decisions.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years in engineering management
• Experience leading multiple teams or a multi-squad technical area
• 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
• Ability to reason about model access, evaluation, observability, retrieval, agent orchestration, tool use, state, permissions, reliability, cost, and safety
• AI Expertise using Agentic AI to support architecture, planning, and decision-making
• Experience leading platform products with instinct for self-service, API design, developer experience, and adoption
• Clear communication and stakeholder leadership

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

Benefits

• Open, collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture
• Monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com
• Learning & Development budget
• Time off for self-development
• Competitive financial package with equity
• Leave allowance
• Health insurance
• Access to free mental health support platforms
• Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers in London

About the company

Preply is a category-defining company that helps people discover tutors and craft personalised learning journeys. It has reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D.