As we continue to expand and enhance our mobile testing platform, we are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to take over leadership of the growing mobile engineering team. Currently, one Engineering Manager oversees both the mobile and web teams, but with our engineering team’s growth, we are looking for a dedicated leader to focus exclusively on driving the mobile team forward.
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 3 years of Engineering management experience
- Over 5 years of experience designing and supporting software development, backend implementation experience is a plus.
- Have experience in developing mobile applications (iOS/Android)
- 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.
