As an engineering manager your mission is to maximize the output of engineering. You will utilize your communication skills and technical background to allow individuals and teams to work together to achieve common goals.
At Degica, engineering managers play a crucial role in supporting the company vision and ensuring the stability and health of both the engineering teams and the system. They work closely with product and engineering to refine the “what” and “how” of features being built. They play a major role in scaling engineering through identifying and improving processes, and ensure everyone is working towards a clear and consistent goal. They work closely with the engineers to support their long term career goals and job satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Ensure engineering teams are efficiently achieving their goals
- Provide mentorship and guidance through 1-on-1’s and performance reviews
- Set expectations with engineers and hold them accountable for project deliverables
- Participate and improve process around engineering onboarding, training and hiring
- Define processes to increase productivity and ensure adoption across engineering
Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering management experience
- Technical experience building and working on large-scale software products
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work with the product owners to provide context to inform projects and timelines
- Ability to collect and provide meaningful context to help inform the developers’ technical solutions
- Ability to provide thoughtful feedback to help developers improve their skills
- Ability to work across teams and departments to unblock developers and improve productivity
Nice to haves
While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.
- Experience building and working on large-scale software products
- Solid understanding of software development best practices
- Understanding of concepts like technical debt and continuous integration
- Knowledge of the Ruby programming language
- Able to speak Japanese
Compensation
¥13,000,000 ~ annually.
