Design and build scalable backend services for energy-market products using Go, gRPC, microservices, GraphQL, GKE and Terraform. Remote work is possible.
About this role
enechain, which runs Japan's largest energy-trading marketplace (95% market share among participating corporates; GTV approaching 3 trillion yen, targeting a 100-trillion-yen market), is hiring an Application Platform Manager (Engineering Manager) to handle project, people and technology management for the Application Platform team. You can focus on business-adjacent domains, cross-cutting platform-adjacent domains, or a balance of both, per your preference. Development challenges include: near-national-infrastructure levels of security/availability/performance (financial-market stability plus real-time trading speed across complex microservices and external systems), understanding the complex energy domain with domain experts, designs balancing scalability and agility, and building the management/development structure for a 50+ person tech organization. Work: project management (roadmap, driving projects via EMs, budgeting); people management (1-on-1s, hiring/headcount planning, evaluation); and technology management (reviews, technical direction decisions). Products: eSquare (trading platform), eCompass (market-data platform), eScan (ETRM risk tool), JCEX (environmental-value marketplace). Remote work available (with onboarding onsite). Business-level Japanese is expected. Full-time, based in Tokyo (Minami-Aoyama).
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