Senior Engineering Manager (GenAI & Agentic Platforms)

Lead the GenAI Platform and Agentic Platform teams (approximately 8-12 engineers across two teams) within Preply's AI Platform area, which also includes ML Platform. The role owns the engineering strategy, execution, and organizational health of two complementary teams that take AI workloads from experimentation to reliable production systems. It is a multi-team leadership role for a manager with strong technical judgment, partnering closely with ML Platform leadership, Product, Applied Science, Data, Security, and Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Set the long-term engineering vision for GenAI Platform and 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: use of Agentic AI beyond code generation to support architecture, planning, and decision-making, while retaining human judgment 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

Benefits

An open, collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture; A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com; Learning & Development budget, and time off for self-development; A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance; Attractive relocation package for candidates not in Barcelona to join the Preply Barcelona Hub; Access to free mental health support platforms; Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain; The opportunity to unlock the potential of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries