Sr. Engineering Manager

amptalk Shibuya, Tokyo June 9 2026
  • 💴 ¥8M ~ ¥13M annually
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 💬
    Conversational Japanese
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Senior level
    5+ years experience required
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About amptalk

amptalk Shibuya, Tokyo

amptalk is a sales enablement tool that automatically captures recorded sales calls on Zoom, transcribes the conversation, and analyzes the content.

Key benefits

  • International team
  • Rapidly growing

About the position

You will lead one of the existing product teams. A dedicated Tech Lead owns architecture; your focus is people, process, and velocity.

Your mission is to help fulfill amptalk’s purpose “Maximize the time people can truly face each other.” You will accelerate delivery of a brand-new product by removing organizational and technical friction while still contributing code where it counts.

Responsibilities

  • Team Building & Hiring. Define hiring needs, run interviews, and onboard new engineers to strengthen the team.
  • Performance Management & Career Growth. Set individual goals (OKRs/KPIs), run regular 1:1s, give feedback, and support promotions or skill development.
  • Culture & Process. Foster an engineering culture and continuously improve team processes.
  • Cross-Functional Coordination. Act as liaison between product management, design, QA, and other departments to unblock and align work.
  • IC Contribution. Although the Tech Lead retains ultimate responsibility for technical decisions, as an individual contributor the EM must be able to contribute to product development at a coach‐level.

Requirements

  • 5+ years leading engineering teams (5 members or more)
  • Hands-on web-application development (design, coding, ops)
  • Demonstrated ability to drive delivery and cut through ambiguity
  • Strong track record in strategic alignment (tying engineering outcomes to business goals)
  • Skilled in Systems thinking (designing processes and structures that scale)
  • Comfortable toggling between high-level team enablement and hands-on execution when needed

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Experience with our stack: Nuxt.js / TypeScript, Node.js, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora PostgreSQL), AWS CDK
  • Large-scale system or legacy refactor projects
  • Modern engineering practices (DDD, TDD, Clean Architecture)
  • Integrations with Salesforce or other SaaS platforms
  • Managing multicultural, distributed teams
  • Managing managers

Compensation

¥8,000,000 ~ ¥13,000,000 annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Interview with HR

  2. 2

    Multiple Interviews with engineers

    (Including Technical interview)

  3. 3

    Final interview

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Meet amptalk's Developers

Mike Rudling talks about his passion for creating great developer experiences, and compares his experience at amptalk with his decade in the Bay Area startup scene.

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