Career Opportunity for a Tech Lead, Backend-Focused Full-Stack in Japan!
■ Tech Lead, Backend-Focused Full-Stack
■ Company Overview
A Japan-based manufacturing technology company that helps industrial businesses improve procurement and production efficiency through AI-driven data platforms, enabling better use of engineering drawings, quotation workflows, and supply chain information. Its solutions focus on digitizing fragmented manufacturing knowledge, reducing operational costs, and supporting data-driven decision-making across large-scale manufacturing organizations.
■ Your Role and Responsibilities
● Lead the end-to-end development of the application from scratch, including technology selection, domain modeling, and overall architecture design.
● Drive cross-functional collaboration, working with product managers, designers, and engineers across multiple teams to ensure successful delivery.
● Build, mentor and scale a high-performing, globally-oriented engineering team, fostering a strong engineering culture that primarily operates in English.
■ Experience and Qualifications
● 9+ years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and delivering web applications on cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, and Azure.
● Proven leadership in managing teams of 30+ engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable web applications through strong technical excellence and proactive guidance in architecture, implementation, and delivery.
● Product and Technical Experience o Experience owning system architecture design initiatives and technical strategy, including making long-term architectural decisions and aligning technical direction with product and business goals.
● Experience leading the end-to-end delivery of B2B SaaS platforms, from requirement definition and design to implementation, delivery, and continuous improvement, ensuring enterprise-level performance, reliability, and security.
● Experience leading the end-to-end development of B2C applications, focusing on usability, performance, and customer engagement throughout the entire product lifecycle.
● Lead full product lifecycles, including requirement gathering, design, roadmap planning, iterative development, and post-launch improvements.
● Fluent in English, able to understand complex, context-heavy discussions and collaborate effectively with a multicultural English speaking team.
■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
● Development Environment
● Frontend:TypeScript,React,Next.js
● Backend:TypeScript,Rust(axum),Node.js(Express,Fastify,NestJS)
● Infrastructure: Docker, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Istio, Cloudflare
● Event Bus：Cloud Pub/Sub
● DevOps：GitHub,GitHub Actions,ArgoCD,Kustomize,Helm,Terraform,Datadog,MixPanel,Sentry
● Data:CloudSQL(PostgreSQL),AlloyDB,BigQuery,dbt,trocco
● API:GraphQL,REST,gRPC
● Authentication:Auth0
● Other tools:GitHub Copilot,Figma,Storybook
● Communication:Slack,Discord,JIRA,Miro,Confluence
■ Good Reasons to Join
●Hybrid position in Japan
● Work with International team members
● Working hours: Flextime schedule with a core time of 11:00–16:00. Includes a 1 hour break.
■ Work Location
Tokyo, Japan
Details will be provided during the meeting.