◆ Engineering Manager【B2B SaaS】◆ Building and Managing NLP-Powered Solutions for Corporate Culture Transformation / Full Remote Work / JLPT N1

★Engineering Manager【B2B SaaS】 | AI/NLP Company

• Business Level Japanese Required

◆ Flextime System & Fully Remote Work

◆ In-house Products

◆ 123 days off per year

◆ Annual salary: 7 million yen - 10 million yen

-------------【About the company】-------------

The company's mission is "to advance humanity by reinventing the mechanisms of value creation" and aims to create an environment where people can focus on creating new value through the use of natural language processing and AI technologies.

AI delivers information directly related to business operations, thereby enhancing the information sensitivity of the organization. In addition, the company offers two SaaS products: "Anews," which encourages the conception of business ideas and their development within the organization, and "Astrategy," a market research service that provides suggestions by structuring necessary information according to the organization and its operations.

Currently, its main target is major manufacturing R&D in Japan, and more than 30% of the Nikkei 225 companies have already adopted the system. In the future, starting with manufacturing R&D, the company plans to expand to domestic enterprise companies, then to Japanese companies as a whole, and even to global companies.

The company completed a Series C financing of 1.1 billion in August 2022.

In February 2024, they were selected for the "GENIAC (Generative AI Accelerator Challenge) Project" promoted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and NEDO, and have begun to develop their own LLM with 100 billion parameters!

The company has grown to 100 employees and is looking for more personnel to achieve further growth!

-------------【 Job Description】-------------

【Current Challenges】

・The company has recently completed a Series D funding round of 4.5 billion yen and is currently pursuing a "multi-agent" strategy as a key pillar of its product growth.

・There is an urgent need to strengthen the development structure to simultaneously manage two critical priorities: ensuring the stable operation and improvement of existing product features, and exploring value for new AI agents.

・Given this background, the company must move beyond incremental improvements to the existing development setup. It is now essential to strategically and flexibly update systems and processes, creating a strong demand for management leadership to drive this evolution.

【Your Role】

In a B2B SaaS product development organization, you will hold primary responsibility for people management and technology management. From a product management perspective, you will collaborate with PdMs and PMMs to align engineering activities with business strategy.

Specifically, you are expected to determine priorities and take action as a manager regarding goal setting, performance evaluations, coaching, assignments, team composition, and resource adjustments based on the status of the business and the organization.

Furthermore, as a short-term focus, the company expects you to take an active interest and involvement in reskilling engineers for Generative AI integration and participating in the design of AI agent products.

■Responsibilities

You will be responsible for management aimed at maximizing the output of the development team. This includes team operations, performance management, the development and evaluation of lead talent, supporting technical decision-making, and consensus building across the following development domains:

[Front-end Domain]

・Planning and design of new features, and front-end development and performance improvement using Vue.js.

・Mobile application development using Flutter.

・Enhancing the developer experience through improvements to the development foundation and refactoring.

・Design and implementation of product-wide common components.

[Back-end Domain]

・API design and development using Ruby on Rails and Python.

・Database design and development.

・Architectural design and development using AWS environments.

・Batch processing design and development using Python.

・Design, development, and improvement of features utilizing natural language processing (NLP) technology.

*Scope of changes in duties: Development-related tasks.

【Team Composition】

Product Engineering Unit (26 members)

・Breakdown: 1 VPoE, 2 EMs (doubling as Lead Engineers), 3 Lead Engineers, 18 Engineers.

*As further expansion is anticipated, the company expects you to take charge of the design and strengthening of the team structure in your capacity as a manager.

【Development Environment】

▼ Assigned Product

・Languages & Frameworks: Vue.js, TypeScript, Flutter, Ruby on Rails, Python, Terraform

・Database: RDB (Amazon Aurora MySQL), Elasticsearch (AWS OpenSearch)

・Infrastructure: Docker, AWS (ECS, Cognito, SQS, SES, Step Functions, IAM, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, etc.), Datadog, SendGrid, etc.

▼ Other Products (Reference)

・Languages & Frameworks: Vue.js, TypeScript, Python, Golang, Terraform

・Database: DynamoDB, Elasticsearch (AWS OpenSearch)

・Infrastructure & Cloud Foundation: Docker, AWS (ECS, Cognito, Lambda, etc.), Datadog, CircleCI, etc.

【Position Highlights】

・Involvement in Advanced Search and Recommendation Technology for LLM × SaaS Products

The company is currently developing its own proprietary LLM. Despite being a B2B SaaS, the product’s nature as a news application requires highly sophisticated recommendation and search technologies, offering the opportunity to take on challenging development tasks.

・Team Development in Collaboration with PdMs, Designers, BizDev, and Research

The company employs a feature-based development model where engineers collaborate closely with PdMs, designers, BizDev, and Research teams. This environment allows you to focus on the product alongside multiple professions while constantly keeping customer challenges in mind.

・An Environment for Flexible Working Styles

You can adopt a working style that fits your personal lifestyle. With a high ratio of engineers, the company understands the vital importance of engineering. The average age is 36.7, and with many members possessing extensive enterprise experience, you can pursue development in a professional and grounded atmosphere.

-------------【 Requirements】-------------

【Required】

*Meet all of the following

・5+ years of practical development experience

・Experience leading development from a technical perspective as a Tech Lead or Lead Engineer

・Experience developing both front-end and back-end systems

・Practical experience in team management, mentoring team members, performance evaluation, and goal setting

【Preferred】

・Management experience reporting directly to an Engineering Manager or VPoE

・Experience contributing to machine learning development projects, with a focus on natural language processing

・Experience participating in technical communities and a passion for sharing knowledge through presentations and blog writing

・Experience building and improving products in collaboration with Product Managers and designers

【Ideal Applicants】

・Capable of identifying questions independently rather than just addressing given tasks, and delivering results by involving the entire team.

・Interested in focusing on people as much as technology, with a commitment to fostering member growth and maximizing the team’s overall potential.

・Possesses an essential interest in technology and the determination to become a leading figure in the field.

・Proactively considers how to deliver value to customers and expand revenue while maintaining close communication with the business side.

【Others】

・Able to reside in Japan

・Able to communicate fluently in Japanese, including on technical development matters

*Required level: Conversational

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【Working Time 】

Flextime System

【About remote work】

■Basically, fully remote work

Residence must be in Japan (no full remote work while residing overseas)

■Flexible remote/working options (no restrictions on the number of times you can come to the office)

Each employee works while using the system according to his/her own circumstances.

【Welfare】

■Customer facing allowance (flat monthly amount of 20,000 yen *included in monthly salary)

Free use for self-improvement and customer value improvement

(purchase of books/attendance at seminars/equipment, etc.)

■Lump-sum allowance for preparation for remote work (flat rate of 50,000 yen in the first paycheck)

Provided as an expense for preparation for remote work

【Others】

■Periodic health checkups (all paid by company)

■Influenza vaccination

■PC of your choice provided

■Free drinks such as water/coffee/carbonated drinks/alcohol provided at the office

■Office Glico installed

【Education and Skill Development】

■Onboarding for 5 days after employment is available

■Monthly study day system (for own skill improvement and learning purpose)

【Internal Communication】

■Weekly company-wide online meeting

■Monthly social gathering (offline, some online)

■Semi-annual kick-off (hybrid of online and offline meetings)

【Holidays】

■123 days off per year

■Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays (2 days off per week)

■Year-end and New Year vacations

■Paid leave (granted at the time of employment *Number of days granted depends on the month of employment)

■Prenatal leave

■Childcare leave