Senior Engineering Manager - AI

About Atlys

Atlys is building an AI-first platform to remove friction and uncertainty from global travel. Our mission is to enable every person on Earth to travel freely. To date, we've processed visas for 1M+ travellers across 127 countries—but we're still early.

Travel execution is uniquely suited to agentic AI systems. Booking a flight takes seconds; getting on it requires navigating visas, permits, documents, eligibility rules and deadlines spread across government and partner systems that don't talk to each other. A demo that works 80% of the time fails when the failure mode is someone missing a flight. You'll rebuild this layer with systems that must be reliable, scalable and operationally lean.

The Role

You'll own three critical teams: AI, Backend and Infrastructure. You report directly to the CTO and are responsible for setting technical direction, building engineering leaders, and scaling systems as product, traffic and complexity compound.

Key Responsibilities

• Build multi-agent systems for production. Design stateless agents on durable execution so workflows spanning days can retry, resume and hand off to humans without state corruption. Own the harness, eval infrastructure, guardrails, and cost/latency envelope.
• Scale core backend architecture. Keep p99 latencies flat while traffic, product surface and country-specific complexity grow simultaneously. Make architectural bets early and cheaply.
• Strengthen infrastructure and developer velocity through deployment systems, observability, automation and internal tooling. Enable product teams to ship without creating tickets against your org.
• Reduce operational complexity via platform engineering and Infrastructure as Code, moving toil into self-managing systems.
• Build an engineering organisation that scales. Hire exceptional talent, grow managers and senior ICs into leaders, and maintain a technical bar that doesn't drift as headcount increases.

Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years in engineering, including 3+ years leading multiple teams or managing leaders in high-growth environments.
• Shipped multi-agent systems to real users with concrete experience in evals, regression detection, failure containment and production costs.
• Built or operated durable execution systems (Temporal, Restate, Cadence or equivalent) and understand why stateless agents plus durable orchestration is superior.
• Experience with developer platforms, automation systems, AI infrastructure or large-scale data platforms.
• Proven track record hiring, coaching and growing engineers and engineering leaders with high ownership standards you can defend with specifics.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and equity
• Comprehensive health insurance for you and family, plus annual preventive health check-ups
• Thoughtful leave policy with paid time off and company holidays
• Meals at office (lunch, high tea, dinner)
• Learning & development credits for courses, books, conferences and tools
• Relocation support
• High-spec equipment and software
• Office amenities: pickleball, table tennis, PlayStation, arcade, F1 simulator and flight simulator

We hire exceptional people for their craft, not travel enthusiasm. We solve hard problems that happen to touch global travel and government infrastructure.