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The Engineering Manager will lead engineering teams, improve development processes, and foster a modern AI-assisted engineering culture. They are responsible for cross-team coordination, hiring, performance management, and aligning engineering delivery with business stakeholder expectations.
This position will play a critical role in leading engineering teams, improving engineering processes, developing organizational capabilities, and fostering a modern AI-assisted engineering culture across the company.
Join a new global team driving innovation and making a large societal impact.
The company aims to become a global leader in DX solutions and already has offices in:
As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that teams are able to deliver and that their work remains coherent across the organisation.
You will support technical leads in making their own decisions while maintaining consistency across shared platforms, dependencies, development environments, and engineering standards.
The role includes hiring, development, performance evaluation, regular 1-on-1 meetings, and team structure planning. You will communicate realistic effort estimates and delivery commitments to business stakeholders and work with teams to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
Coordinate shared platforms, dependencies, development environments, and engineering standards across teams.
Align priorities and resolve blockers that affect multiple teams.
Maintain consistency while allowing teams to make appropriate decisions within their areas of responsibility.
Help technical leads make informed decisions rather than making decisions on their behalf.
Provide technical guidance and support when teams encounter difficult problems.
Help establish environments where proofs of concept can run without destabilising other systems or teams.
Participate in hiring and team formation.
Conduct regular 1-on-1 meetings.
Support engineer development and provide candid, constructive feedback.
Carry out performance evaluations and help build effective teams.
Communicate realistic engineering effort estimates and commitments to business stakeholders.
Make capacity, dependencies, priorities, and delivery risks visible.
Work with product and business teams to align expectations with engineering capabilities.
Support the review and improvement of existing development processes.
Identify bottlenecks together with teams and help resolve them.
Establish missing processes where necessary.
Agree on final decisions regarding new processes with other Engineering Managers and engineering leadership.
Promote the introduction and practical use of AI development tools.
Operate and maintain usage guidelines, including security and information-management requirements.
Help teams use AI tools responsibly within their development workflows.
Approximately five or more years of experience developing web services or SaaS products.
Experience as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead managing multiple engineers, including hiring, performance evaluation, and development.
Experience introducing or improving Agile development processes.
Experience coordinating dependencies and priorities across teams.
Experience driving the introduction and adoption of AI development tools within a team, or using such tools daily in your own work.
Takes an active interest in helping people grow.
Gives candid and constructive feedback.
Coordinates effectively across teams and stakeholders.
Earns technical trust through sound judgment and practical understanding.
Employment type: Full-time employee.
Estimated annual salary: Up to ¥13 million.
Location: Head office in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Work arrangement: Fully remote within Japan.
Working hours: Flexible hours, with core time from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
Holidays: Weekends and Japanese national holidays; approximately 122 days off annually.
Additional leave: Paid annual leave, seasonal leave, refresh leave, and life-support leave.
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