■ Job Title

Engineering Manager

For someone living in Japan!

 

■ Company Overview

A tech-driven company focusing on transforming financial services through innovative solutions. They provide numerous services that help simplify financial management for both individuals and businesses.

 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

Lead and oversee a global engineering team, fostering a structure that consistently delivers high-quality software solutions.

Drive long-term organizational growth by enhancing the productivity and development of the engineering division, with a forward-looking perspective of 3–5 years.

Identify and proactively resolve both technical and organizational challenges that arise from platform and team expansion.

Take ownership of project management for high-priority initiatives at the department or divisional level.

Align development roadmaps and organizational planning with a deep understanding of company-wide strategy and the needs of platform-utilizing products.

Partner with fellow managers to address cross-functional and cross-company issues.

Perform people management tasks such as regular 1-on-1 meetings, monthly check-ins, and biannual performance evaluations.

Nurture and develop future leaders to ensure the sustainable growth of the company and its operations.

Execute all of the above responsibilities effectively using English.

■ Experience and Qualifications

Experience working in a web application development environment

Proven track record of managing teams of 5 or more engineers, including mentoring and performance evaluations

Involvement in or responsibility for making major technical decisions within a team

Strong development background and design experience to support and advocate for engineers’ needs

Project leadership experience involving multiple stakeholders, teams of 10+, and durations of six months or more

Experience collaborating with non-technical stakeholders such as product managers and sales teams

Participation in engineer recruitment activities

Business-level English proficiency (see requirements below)

Motivation to learn Japanese

 

Technology Stack

Backend: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Golang

Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js

Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka

Repositories: GitHub

Project Management: Asana, Jira

Monitoring: Datadog, Rollbar

CI/CD: CircleCI, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions

Analytics: BigQuery, Google Analytics

Communication Tools: Zoom, Slack, Figma, Miro

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

 

Experience building and maintaining developer platforms

Familiarity with web application development using Ruby on Rails or Golang

Knowledge of systems leveraging AWS S3 at scale

Understanding of file system permission architecture

Leadership experience with multinational engineering teams

Business-level proficiency in Japanese

Experience in AI development or applying AI tools to improve engineering workflows

 

■ Good Reasons to Join

- Engage with advanced financial technologies.
- Lead impactful projects in a dynamic and innovative environment.
- Work within a collaborative, international team setting

 

■Work Style

Hybrid work, 2-3 days to the office.

 

■Work Location

Tokyo

 

■Salary

Negotiable