Engineering Manager, Test Management & Platform

With the growth of our market share comes the growth of our product feature set. We seek a leader to help drive our platform and test management teams. Those 2 teams comprise 8 engineers, and each team is accountable for their product’s infrastructure, backend, front end, and quality. This position is open to oversee the engagement, growth, and success of those 2 teams.

Responsibilities

• Create succession strategies and recruit the team members required to fulfill each team’s mission.
• 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’s performance, and 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 to achieve 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

• Being able to work during day hours, 9 am - 5pm JST
• Strong motivation and passion to learn and challenge in a new work environment
• 2 years of Engineering management experience or more
• 5 years of experience developing software

Nice to haves

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

• Backend experience
• Experience in working within a SaaS
• Understanding of QA practices, especially test automation

Compensation