Technical Lead

Our client is a global technology company developing large-scale digital platforms and solutions used by customers and businesses worldwide.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead to drive the architecture, development, and delivery of scalable software platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Java, backend engineering, microservices, cloud technologies, and software architecture, along with proven experience leading engineers and collaborating across multiple technical teams.

Key Responsibilities

Lead requirements analysis, solution design, and technical decision-making for large-scale engineering initiatives.

Design platform-wide architectures and solutions spanning multiple products, services, and teams.

Translate business requirements into high-level and detailed technical designs.

Lead the architecture, development, and production rollout of scalable and resilient microservices-based systems.

Provide hands-on technical leadership throughout development, QA, deployment, and production operations.

Establish and promote software engineering best practices, including automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and maintainable development processes.

Design and optimize backend systems for scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Lead troubleshooting and incident resolution across the full product lifecycle, from triage and root-cause analysis to remediation and preventive measures.

Collaborate with Product, QA, SRE, Infrastructure, Backend, Frontend, and Platform teams.

Mentor engineers and support their technical growth.

Communicate complex technical concepts and architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Drive architectural consistency and engineering best practices across teams.

Top 5 Key Responsibilities:

- Application new feature development / enhancement

- Regular Operation (client inquiries)

- Operation improvement (automation of manual operation)

- Interaction with other Groups like QA, SRE, Architect

- Production troubleshooting

Mandatory Qualifications

Strong Must

- Strong proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks, including Java; experience with React, PHP, and Python (or Golang) is a plus (5+ years). (Ideally 8-10+ years of experience)

- Proven experience working with relational databases such as MySQL, with a solid understanding of data modeling, performance optimization, scalability, and reliability (5+ years).

- Deep understanding of software engineering best practices, including automated testing strategies, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and (5+ years).

- Strong hands-on experience with production operations, including deployment, monitoring, performance optimization, scalability, reliability, and maintaining highly available production systems.

Must

- Professional software development experience, with strong expertise in designing, building, and leading scalable backend systems (5+ years).

- Demonstrated experience leading platform-wide architecture and solution design that spans multiple products and services, including translating business requirements into high-level and detailed architectural designs.

- Proven track record of leading the architecture, design, development, and production rollout of scalable and resilient microservices-based platforms.

- Hands-on leadership experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, for deploying, operating, and scaling distributed systems in production environments.

- In-depth knowledge of architectural patterns and software design principles, with the ability to define technical direction and apply these principles effectively to complex, real-world systems.

- Demonstrated leadership and collaboration skills, including experience mentoring engineers and driving effective collaboration across cross-functional teams such as Product, QA, SRE, and Infrastructure.

- Extensive experience leading end-to-end product troubleshooting and incident resolution, coordinating across SRE/Infrastructure, Platform/Middleware, Backend, and Frontend teams; accountable for the full lifecycle from triage and root-cause analysis to implementing fixes and driving preventive measures to ensure non-recurrence.

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts and architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

- Hands-on experience with data engineering principles, including ETL processes, data warehousing, and working with large datasets.

- Extensive experience with distributed computing concepts and technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis.).

- Familiarity with various database technologies, including relational and NoSQL databases.

- Experience with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their relevant services for compute, storage, and data processing.

- Experience leading an engineering team, demonstrating proficiency in people management, project oversight, and cost management.

- Experience in the MarTech (Marketing Technology) industry.

- Ideally experience in big tech companies, SDLC experience

Language Requirements

• English: Fluent
• Japanese: Optional

Work Environment

• Flexible working hours with core collaboration hours
• International engineering team

Salary: ¥10M – ¥15M JPY per year

Location: Hybrid (4 days in the office, 1 day remote)

Visa Sponsorship: Available

Office Location: Tokyo, Japan

Working Hours: Flexible schedule with core hours from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Apply now or contact us for further information:

TG Japan Inc.

03-5775-6618

RSU1_Agt@tg-hr.com