preply - Senior Engineering Manager (GenAI & Agentic Platforms)

London, Greater London, United Kingdom+ Equity3w ago

In Office Staff EMEA Engineering Manager Product Manager Coaching Team Management Change Management Temporal Team Leadership

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. • 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.

Responsibilities

• GenAI and Agentic AI are central to Preply's AI strategy. As the Senior Engineering Manager for GenAI & Agentic Platforms, you'll own the engineering strategy, execution, and organizational health of two complementary teams that take AI workloads from experimentation to reliable production systems. • This is a multi-team leadership role for a manager with strong technical judgment. You won't be the primary implementer, but you'll go deep on architecture and production AI, coach senior engineers, shape platform abstractions and operational standards, and partner with Product, Applied Science, Data, Security, and Engineering teams. • 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.

Benefits

• An open, collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture; • A generous monthly allowance for lessons on http://preply.com/Preply.com http://Preply.com, Learning & Development budget, and time off for your self-development; • A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance; • Access to free mental health support platforms; • Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout London to promote and support well-being and physical health;