Software Engineering Manager (Seattle)

Our company is undergoing a major technical and organizational evolution as we scale our products and modernize our architecture. We are investing heavily in improving reliability, performance, and development speed, while transitioning toward a global engineering culture. As part of this shift, we are hiring Engineering Managers who can operate effectively in an international environment and help bridge communication between English-speaking engineers and Japanese-speaking stakeholders.

This is a rare chance to influence technical strategy, organizational design, and engineering culture in a company with a large user base and rapidly growing infrastructure needs. You will have the freedom to suggest improvements across technology, process, and team operations.

Tech Environment (Summary)

Applications

• Backend services mainly built in Kotlin + Spring Boot
• Legacy systems in Java (Spring Boot / Java EE)
• Service-to-service communication using gRPC and Kafka
• Frontend stack : TypeScript, Vue 3, Nuxt.js

Infrastructure & Tooling

Role Overview

You will lead a backend development team responsible for large-scale web systems. Your goal is to empower engineers to deliver consistently despite rapid changes, shifting priorities, and multilingual communication.

Key Responsibilities

1. Delivery & Execution

2. Operations & Process Improvement

3. People Leadership & Team Development

Requirements (Baseline)

Technical Background

Soft Skills

Leadership