We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it’s creating real impact.We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters.

Joining

Preply means helping define the future of education at general scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.GenAI Platform owns shared model access, routing, evaluation, observability, prompt and configuration lifecycle, retrieval, grounding, and guardrails.

Agentic

Platform builds on those foundations with durable execution, tools, state, context, memory, permissions, human controls, agent evaluation, and runtime safety.and evolve the platform as models, frameworks, and company needs change. Learn more through our Engineering Blog, Tech Radar, and YouTube channel.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.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.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.8+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management and experience leading multiple teams or a multi-squad technical area.Strong technical depth in platform engineering, backend or distributed systems,



ML infrastructure or developer infrastructure.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 with agent frameworks or durable workflow technologies such as LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, or Temporal.Experience measuring platform success through adoption, customer outcomes, and engineering leverage rather than infrastructure delivery alone.com, Learning & Development budget, and time off for your self-development;A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance;We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona HubAccess to free mental health support platforms;Keep perfecting - To create an outstanding customer experience, we focus on simplicity, smoothness, and enjoyment, continually perfecting it as every detail matters.Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe today's best performance becomes tomorrow's starting point. Raise the bar - We raise our performance standards continuously, alongside each new hire and promotion.

Challenge, disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication, even when we don’t fully agree. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company.

📌 Senior Engineering Manager (GenAI & Agentic Platforms) (Barcelona)
🏢 Preply
📍 Barcelona