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Engineering Manager, Genesis

Autify Chuo-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥10M ~ ¥12.5M annually
  • 🏡 Fully remote (within Japan)
  • 🧪 5+ years experience required
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About Autify

Autify Chuo-ku, Tokyo

A test automation platform founded in San Francisco by a team of engineers who were the first Japanese team to graduate from the top US accelerator Alchemist Accelerator. Over 300 companies have implemented our platform.

Key benefits

  • Engineering-centric culture
  • Remote-first
  • Internationally minded engineers

About the position

Genesis is a new product specializing in cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and data analytics solutions focused on the Japanese market. We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Japanese market Genesis team, overseeing the development of core technologies. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to align project goals, mentor engineers, and drive innovation. If you have a strong background in software engineering and exceptional leadership skills, join us to shape the future of technology.

Responsibilities

  • Create succession strategies and recruit the team members required to fulfill the team’s missions.
  • Share the business vision as well as the team missions with the teams
  • Facilitate the team’s ceremonies and remove blockers and impediments to support your team’s day-to-day operations.
  • Provide visibility on your team and their progress, through reporting on the different metrics evaluating the team performance as well as engaging with stakeholders through refinements and demos.
  • Support the product team in delivering fast and high-quality business value.
  • Be flexible and capable of altering the team roadmap when faced with new information, communicate, and engage the team in delivering new directions.
  • Identify the different architectural and technical debt challenges, and plan their improvement accordingly.
  • Support cross-team initiatives and facilitate collaboration within the teams.
  • Build relationships with your reports, support their career development and motivate members in achieving the team goals.
  • Empower the engineers and maximize the team’s productivity by setting goals, performing evaluations, and utilizing data to improve operational workflow.

Requirements

  • Over 5 years of experience designing and supporting software development, and backend implementation experience is a plus.
  • Ability to communicate and work in English
  • Until a Visa can be issued, being able to work from your own country with some overlap with Japanese business hours

Nice to haves

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

  • Experience working at a SaaS startup company
  • Have an understanding of QA practices, especially test automation

Compensation

10 to 12.5 million JPY annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Technical Assignment (Take-home)

  2. 2

    Technical Interview (60min)

  3. 3

    HR interview (45min)

  4. 4

    Final interview (45min)

Meet Autify's Developers

Samuel Johnson shares his experiences of working at Autify, where he does a mix of SRE and backend engineering. He explains how their product and working environment make it an attractive opportunity.

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