You will be responsible for managing platform service development within the CADDi Core Division, which oversees the common infrastructure (including goal setting for your assigned domain and various management activities to achieve those goals).
The mission of the CADDi Core Division is to develop and expand platform services that bear responsibility for solving common technical challenges across applications, thereby driving the overall business growth of CADDi through the power of its technological foundation.
Around 30% of our development team members come from various international backgrounds, including Asia, Europe, and North America. To build a thriving multicultural environment, some teams communicate primarily in English, and critical meetings are held bilingually in both Japanese and English.
As a manager, you’ll be responsible for leading diverse, multinational teams. Depending on your experience and organizational needs, you may manage one or multiple teams. The exact team(s) you’ll oversee will be decided based on your expertise and preferences discussed during interviews and will be presented during the offer stage.
Internal communication within teams is primarily in English, whereas communication across teams involves a mix of Japanese and English, but a high level of Japanese proficiency isn’t necessary.
This role provides you with opportunities to tackle challenging problems alongside passionate colleagues, contribute to a product that’s reshaping industry structures and creating social impact, participate in scaling a global product and international engineering organization, and experience significant professional growth by working closely with experienced leaders, including former CTOs of publicly listed SaaS companies.
Based on your experience and preferences, you will be expected to manage either a single team or multiple teams immediately upon joining.
Alternatively, you may start by actively contributing hands-on for several months to deepen your technical understanding, build relationships with stakeholders, and gradually transition into management duties.
Responsibilities
The following tasks are not handled by a single manager at once; responsibilities are divided based on assigned areas, current priorities, and individual strengths and preferences.
- Promoting Platform Servitization: Planning, development, and operational policy management for foundational services independent of business logic
- Advancing Platform Engineering: Developing and providing platforms and tools to enhance company-wide developer experience (DX)
- Close collaboration with EMs and Product Managers in application development organizations
- People Management for Development Teams: Recruitment, Development, Evaluation, Organizational Design, etc.
- Formulation and Execution of Technical Strategy: Selecting appropriate technologies and optimizing infrastructure costs based on business phase and ROI
- Examples of areas of responsibility
- File Platform: Responsible for unifying file upload and download functionality required by multiple applications.
- Workflow Engine: Responsible for providing the execution foundation to perform large-scale batch processing in a defined sequence.
- Additionally, develops and provides foundational services to resolve technical challenges within applications.
- If your interests or strengths lie closer to the application layer, you may also be assigned to manage the Reliability domain (which includes SRE, QA, and Product Security) within the application development organization.
- Regarding your initial responsibilities:
- We will propose your assigned area during the offer discussion, referencing the preferences and strengths discussed during the casual meeting and interviews.
- We also look forward to discussing the details of each organization during the casual meeting.
Requirements
- Experience demonstrating leadership as a manager in an engineering organization developing in-house products, directly contributing to business outcomes.
- Experience in people management within an engineering organization (recruitment, evaluation, development, organizational design, etc.).
- Experience in design, build, and operations experience as a platform engineer, backend engineer, or cloud infrastructure engineer.
- Fluent business communication skills in Japanese. (Ability to conduct daily work entirely in Japanese, including written communication and meetings.)
- Business-level English proficiency
Nice to haves
While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.
- Experience developing large-scale file upload/download functionality
- Experience developing execution platforms for large-scale batch processing
- Experience designing and operating large-scale web services (high traffic, high availability)
- Experience building and operating application platforms in Kubernetes environments
- Experience designing and building architectures on public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Experience driving Platform Engineering and enhancing developer experience
- Experience within rapidly scaling businesses and development organizations
- Experience managing teams composed of multinational members.
- Management experience in rapidly growing organizations or startups.
Ideal Candidates - Individuals who understand our mission “Unleash the potential of manufacturing”. - Individuals who can confront essential challenges and take action with a sense of ownership to resolve them. - Individuals who can perform their duties with a positive attitude and constructive discussions in fast-changing and highly uncertain situations. - Individuals who can communicate and discuss with a respectful attitude, considering the context and resolution of others.
Compensation
¥12,000,000 ~ ¥20,000,000 annually.
