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Engineering Manager, Ads Delivery

SmartNews Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 Minimum years of experience unspecified
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About SmartNews

SmartNews Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Created to deliver high-quality news from a wide variety of trusted publishers in one place, the SmartNews team works tirelessly to help readers feel good about being informed.

Key benefits

  • Your ideas matter
  • International team

About the position

Responsibilities

  • Empower the engineers in your team.
    • Define responsibilities and encourage ownership of deliverables.
    • Build a culture of entrepreneurship.
    • Grow the team’s skill set, enable team members’ career growth.
    • Work with other teams and respond rapidly to varied initiatives.
  • Be responsible for the ad-delivery system’s foundation works.
    • Identify and improve foundational issues and create a roadmap of improvement.
    • Plan and fix the tech-debts, minimize the latency, and maximize the availability.
    • Do necessary refractory, improve the system release process and auto testing.
    • Co-work with other teams to make a modern globalized system.
  • Build a top class engineering team in JP, help the team be experts in the first-party ad system domain.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in hands on Software Engineering.
  • 2+ years of Management or Tech Lead experience.
  • Experience working with highly scalable consumer facing product.

Nice to haves

These aren’t required, but be sure to mention them in your application if you have them.

  • First party ads platform experience
  • Deep knowledge of cloud based systems

Meet SmartNews's Developers

When Robert joined SmartNews as a software engineer, most of his colleagues were Japanese. Since then, it’s grown into an international organization where English is predominantly used.

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YuCheng is a senior software engineer at SmartNews. He explains the freedom he enjoys at SmartNews: not only from a technical perspective, but also the influence he can have over the direction of the product.

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Cortland recently joined SmartNews as an engineering manager, where he leads a six person team. He talks about what drew him to the company, his role as a manager, and how they use matrix management to maximize their engineers’ success.

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