What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Group Lead position at Tulip Interfaces?
Tulip, the leader in frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with connected apps, leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Companies of all sizes and across industries have implemented composable solutions with Tulip’s cloud-native, no-code platform to solve some of the most pressing challenges in operations: error-proofing processes and boosting productivity, capturing and analyzing real-time data, and continuous improvement.
A spinoff out of MIT, Tulip is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany and Hungary. Focused on composable, human-centric solutions for industrial environments, Tulip is disrupting the MES category and has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator. Tulip has also been named one of Energage’s Top Workplaces USA and one of Built In Boston’s “Best Places to Work” and “Best Midsize Places to Work” for 2024.
This role is located in Somerville, MA - We are a hybrid work environment and are in the office 3 days/per week.
About The Role
Your leadership will be the backbone for Tulip’s technical growth. We’re looking for a technical, people-oriented Platform Group Lead to help lead our growing Platform team. You’ll help our company reach the next level by directing the engineering managers and technical leaders on teams that focus on distributed computing and data storage and retrieval. In this role, you’ll collaborate with the engineering and product teams at Tulip to help determine the roadmap, scope work, and ensure that everyone is working together effectively.
About You
You possess high levels of technical acumen, people management skills, and a keen desire to deeply understand the business value of the product. You have honed your technical skills through years of building and delivering SaaS products. You’re passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them grow. You are a collaborative and motivated self-starter and ready to lead from the front. You bring your authentic self to work.
You also love collaborating across the organization with infrastructure, product, design, and customer teams on key projects. You’ll work with your engineering leads to cultivate and grow our engineering culture.
What skills or experience do I need?
We know even great candidates experience imposter syndrome. Even if you don’t match every requirement, applying gives you the opportunity to be considered.
Benefits
We’re building a strong, diverse team that values hard work, families, and personal well-being. Benefits of working with us include:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
A spinoff out of MIT, Tulip is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany and Hungary. Focused on composable, human-centric solutions for industrial environments, Tulip is disrupting the MES category and has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator. Tulip has also been named one of Energage’s Top Workplaces USA and one of Built In Boston’s “Best Places to Work” and “Best Midsize Places to Work” for 2024.
This role is located in Somerville, MA - We are a hybrid work environment and are in the office 3 days/per week.
About The Role
Your leadership will be the backbone for Tulip’s technical growth. We’re looking for a technical, people-oriented Platform Group Lead to help lead our growing Platform team. You’ll help our company reach the next level by directing the engineering managers and technical leaders on teams that focus on distributed computing and data storage and retrieval. In this role, you’ll collaborate with the engineering and product teams at Tulip to help determine the roadmap, scope work, and ensure that everyone is working together effectively.
About You
You possess high levels of technical acumen, people management skills, and a keen desire to deeply understand the business value of the product. You have honed your technical skills through years of building and delivering SaaS products. You’re passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them grow. You are a collaborative and motivated self-starter and ready to lead from the front. You bring your authentic self to work.
You also love collaborating across the organization with infrastructure, product, design, and customer teams on key projects. You’ll work with your engineering leads to cultivate and grow our engineering culture.
What skills or experience do I need?
- Expertise in contemporary tech stacks including React, Redux, NodeJS, Golang, Electron, Rabbit, Kafka, MongoDB, Postgres
- Experience building large SaaS products and complex distributed systems
- Led prior development efforts and oversaw the delivery of clean, efficient code
- Proficiency in creating scalable systems that allow users to model, store, retrieve, and analyze data
- Experience testing and deploying systems in multicloud/multitenant environments
- Experience with service-oriented architectures, microservices, infrastructure as code, CI/CD
- Cross-functional team leadership with technical and customer-facing feature delivery
- Capable of hiring, mentoring, and creating career opportunities for your team
- Experience integrating software components and third-party technologies
- Infrastructure/DevOps
- Product & Design
We know even great candidates experience imposter syndrome. Even if you don’t match every requirement, applying gives you the opportunity to be considered.
Benefits
We’re building a strong, diverse team that values hard work, families, and personal well-being. Benefits of working with us include:
- Direct impact on product and culture
- Company equity
- Competitive benefits package including Health, Dental, Vision, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Life Insurance, AD&D Insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Commuter Benefits, Parental Leave, and 401(K)
- Flexible work schedule and unlimited vacation policy
- Virtual company events and happy hours
- Fitness subsidies
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
