Engineering Manager

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Job details

Company overview

Our client provides financial web services, aiming to alleviate the financial concerns and anxieties of individuals and businesses through the power of technology, and become the ultimate "money platform" for everyone.
Our main services include automated household accounting and asset management for individuals, economic media, and a financial product comparison platform. For businesses, we offer cloud services and B2B deferred payment services.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for the following roles and responsibilities in the Domain Specific Platform Development Division:
Main responsibilities:

• Manage a global engineering organization and build an organization that continuously delivers high-quality software.
• Contribute to the growth of the company by maximizing the productivity and growth of the engineering organization with a view to 3-5 years ahead.
• Identify and lead the resolution of technical and organizational issues associated with the growth of the platform and the organization.
• Be responsible for project management of highly important initiatives at the division or department level.
• Deeply understand the company-wide strategy and the requirements of products using the platform, and reflect them in the development roadmap and organizational strategy.
• Collaborate with other managers to address cross-company challenges.
• Conduct people management, including 1-on-1s, monthly evaluations, and semi-annual evaluations.
• Develop and recruit successors and next-generation leaders for the sustainable development of the company and its business.
• Brand the company as "a place for engineers to work" and communicate its appeal externally.
• Fulfill the above responsibilities effectively in English.

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Work experience in a web application development organization.
• Experience managing 5 or more engineers (1-on-1s, development, evaluation).
• Experience being responsible for or having a significant impact on the team's technical decision-making.
• Sufficient development and design experience to understand and promote the resolution of engineers' issues.
• Experience managing challenging projects involving multiple stakeholders, with teams of 10 or more people, and spanning six months or longer.
• Experience collaborating with non-engineer roles such as product managers and sales.
• Experience with recruiting engineers.
• Strong empathy for the company's Mission and Vision.
• Business level English proficiency (see details below).
• Willingness to learn Japanese.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in developing and operating development platforms.
• Experience in developing and operating web applications using Ruby on Rails or Golang.
• Experience in developing and operating systems that heavily utilize S3.
• Experience or knowledge in designing file system permissions.
• Management experience with multinational engineers.
• Business level Japanese proficiency.

Salary

8.5 - 15 million yen

Location

Tokyo