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Software Engineering Manager (Seattle)Huxley • Seattle, WA, United States
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Software Engineering Manager (Seattle)

Software Engineering Manager (Seattle)

Huxley • Seattle, WA, United States
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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

  • AWS as the primary platform
  • Terraform for IaC
  • Grafana / Prometheus for metrics and monitoring
  • OpenSearch for logs
  • Collaboration tools : Slack / GitHub / JIRA / Confluence / Google Workspace
  • 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

  • Ensure timely, high-quality delivery across multiple projects
  • Assign work aligned with each engineers strengths
  • Step in to unblock issues : missing information, cross-team friction, urgent escalations
  • Facilitate communication and negotiation with stakeholders (often in Japanese)
  • Influence product and architecture decisions to maintain scalability and technical soundness
  • 2. Operations & Process Improvement

  • Identify bottlenecks in development workflow, tooling, and system behavior
  • Improve team processes to maintain predictable delivery
  • Drive changes that enhance developer experience and reliability
  • Promote data-driven improvements using metrics and observability
  • 3. People Leadership & Team Development

  • Run effective 1 : 1s and career development discussions
  • Support onboarding, performance reviews, and general team health
  • Encourage a culture of continuous improvement
  • Help prioritize and address technical debt
  • Contribute to hiring and interviewing
  • Requirements (Baseline)

    Technical Background

  • At least 2 years of experience managing engineering teams for web applications
  • Former software engineer (backend or frontend)
  • Solid understanding of designing scalable systems
  • Strong ability to break down complex tasks and define execution plans
  • Soft Skills

  • Capable of navigating multi-stakeholder environments
  • Skilled in negotiation, coordination, and conflict resolution
  • Comfortable communicating in conversational Japanese + business-level English
  • Leadership

  • Passion for people development
  • Strong follow-up skills; can track progress and blockers across many tasks
  • Focus on improving developer experience and long-term technical quality
  • Experience conducting interviews
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