Redesign Kurashiru’s backend foundations and build an AI-assisted development platform in its new technology-investment team.
About this role
The Backend Engineering Manager leads Kurashiru’s backend and SRE organization, aligning engineering strategy with product priorities alongside development leadership. The wider team spans iOS, Android, web, backend and SRE, with features built in mixed business-and-engineering Scrum teams. Work includes backend architecture for high traffic, technical-debt reduction, and leading complex architecture changes from requirements through production. The manager develops engineers, contributes to hiring, and establishes AI-driven development as a team process. Product initiatives use user data and include AI-supported cooking experiences and foundations for new revenue. The stack includes Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Redis, Terraform, AWS, Snowflake, BigQuery and GitHub Actions. Required experience includes around seven years of web-application backend development and operations; management of a multidisciplinary development group of roughly five to ten people; leading a complex architecture renewal or technical challenge through production; and product development at an operating company.
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