Engineering Director

This full-time Engineering Director role leads the engineering organization for the domestic advertising platform business. The position combines organizational, technical, and business leadership to support product growth and strengthen engineering capabilities, while retaining hands-on involvement in development.

Responsibilities include building and operating a high-performing engineering organization, developing engineering managers, tech leads, and future technical leaders, planning and executing recruiting activities, improving member engagement, shaping organizational culture, and strengthening collaboration with domestic and overseas development teams.

The role leads the resolution of important technical issues and participates in implementation when necessary. It drives architecture design and review for a large-scale advertising platform and related products, improves system quality, reliability, and development productivity, visualizes and reduces technical debt, leads incident response and recurrence prevention, and provides technical support and development for engineering managers and tech leads.

Strategic work includes creating and advancing a medium- to long-term technology roadmap, researching and evaluating new technologies and industry trends, and promoting security, SRE, platform engineering, AI-assisted development efficiency, and broader productivity improvements. The role also builds understanding of the business model and customers, reflects that understanding in technology strategy, works with product managers and business leaders on business growth, participates in quarterly reviews and business planning, and optimizes personnel, infrastructure, and system costs.

Required qualifications are at least 10 years of software development experience; at least 5 years of management experience including management of multiple teams or engineering managers; experience using AI in software development or improving development productivity; experience designing and reviewing architectures for large-scale web services or SaaS products; experience creating technology strategies and roadmaps; experience communicating and coordinating with business divisions and executives; and business-level Japanese at N1 or above.

Preferred qualifications include development experience in ad technology, C or C++ development, large-scale system development and operations using AWS or GCP, and experience building or operating highly available systems using container technologies, configuration-management tools, and databases. Experience leading AI-based process improvements, serving as a CTO, VPoE, or engineering organization director, business-level English, and experience working in a global development organization are also welcomed.

The position is based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Work from home is available two days per week, subject to possible future changes. Working hours are 10:00 to 19:00, with Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays off. The posting lists monthly pay of JPY 928,571 to JPY 1,571,429, with bonuses twice a year; the published annual salary range is JPY 13 million to JPY 22 million. The fixed overtime allowance covers 45 hours, and overtime exceeding that amount is paid separately.

Benefits include social insurance, full transportation reimbursement, book-purchase assistance, refresh and club-activity allowances, a housing allowance for specified stations, quarterly lunch and dinner support, certification assistance, English-learning assistance when required for work, refresh leave after three years of continuous employment, annual health checks, and an employee shareholding plan. The probationary period is one month. Annual leave includes paid leave, three days of summer leave, year-end and New Year leave from December 31 through January 3, and condolence leave. Selection consists of document screening followed by two or three interviews, with an SPI assessment and reference check required before the final interview.