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Engineering Manager, Mobile Foundation

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

Team mission

  • Build a scalable mobile app architecture that allows fast development of challenging features and radical changes.
  • Build a scalable infrastructure to support a high pace of the development
  • Foster an environment for all mobile teams to become more productive and happy at work.

Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering team that is responsible for iOS/Android foundation
  • Collect requirements from mobile developers, backend teams, and other stakeholders
  • Consider improvement methods and develop a clear roadmap
  • Encourage ingenuity and maximize member’s output

Requirements

  • Experience in mobile development
  • Strong leadership and communication skills
  • Deep knowledge of modern application architecture
  • Experience in improvement of development environments, such as, CI/CD and, build scripts
  • Experience in performance tuning (in any platforms)

Nice to haves

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

  • Experience in web development
  • Experience working for consumer product
  • Knowledge of mobile app security or privacy
  • Knowledge of OS fundamentals
  • Experience in leading platform/mobile teams
  • Experience in cloud infrastructure

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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