Backend Development Manager

This full-time development manager role leads backend development and the engineering organization supporting a robo-advisor service. The role addresses an environment where large, complex projects and smaller improvement initiatives run in parallel, while operational knowledge and data-extraction requests have become concentrated on particular engineers. The manager is expected to improve the organization through technology and repeatable processes.

Responsibilities include identifying operational issues, systematizing and automating development and operations processes, and proposing and introducing technical automation. The manager oversees delivery and risk across multiple projects, makes progress visible, removes bottlenecks, and aligns schedules and decisions with stakeholders. The role provides technical leadership in the Java and Spring Boot area and maintains quality through design, code, and test-case reviews based on standard best practices. It also includes strategically reducing technical debt, raising the technical level of the whole team including new graduates and junior members, developing team members, building the organization, holding regular one-to-ones, and supporting recruiting.

Required qualifications include experience managing progress and leading releases across multiple projects or development initiatives, people-management experience, and experience coordinating requirements scope and priorities with product managers and business teams. Candidates must also have experience reviewing backend designs, code, and test cases, as well as developing web applications with Java and Spring Boot. Experience working on highly robust systems and leading process improvements is preferred.

The stated technology stack includes Java and Kotlin, Spring Boot, AWS, Datadog, MySQL with Aurora, and IntelliJ. The product is an automated asset-management service. The company is also expanding toward a broader financial platform covering areas such as life insurance, pensions, and personal financial management, with MAP AI described as a core initiative using AI and algorithms for individualized financial planning. The business is identified as a financial instruments business.

The work location is in Nishi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. Annual salary is ¥8,000,000 to ¥12,000,000, paid monthly in 12 installments under an annual salary system. Working hours use a flextime system with core hours from 10:00 to 16:00 and a 60-minute break, although some positions may be excluded. Holidays include weekends, public holidays, year-end and New Year holidays, and other company-designated leave. Paid leave is granted from the date of joining, with 15 days in the second year and 20 days from the third year; hourly paid leave is available.

Social insurance covers pension, employment insurance, workers' compensation insurance, and health insurance through the Kanto IT Software Health Insurance Society. Commuting expenses are paid according to company rules for direct employment. Benefits include a corporate defined-contribution pension, an office massage room, an office convenience store, coffee and some other drinks, and influenza vaccinations. Development support includes subsidies for professional and technical books, certifications, external training, and seminars. The company also provides weekly company events and all-hands meetings, welcome lunches, and monthly team lunches. The work environment offers a choice of Mac or Windows computers, subject to assignment-specific exceptions, and hybrid work combining at least three office days per week with working from home.