Lead multiple product teams for Fanicon, aligning business, product, and technology. Manage engineers, support technical decisions, and improve processes, quality, and team growth.
About this role
This full-time Engineering Manager role manages and strengthens the engineering organization for Fanicon, THECOO's monthly membership fan-community app. Responsibilities include improving the engineering environment, maximizing development-team performance through team building, setting goals and conducting evaluations, and managing members' performance, motivation, engagement and career development.
The role also covers planning and executing engineer recruitment measures, technical branding, engineering communications and public relations, and event planning. Depending on experience and preferences, the manager may make proposals in strategic meetings with executives and contribute to resolving technical issues through technical guidance and code review. Hands-on implementation is not required, although implementation work may be possible if desired.
Fanicon is a closed community service for icons and core fans. It began in December 2017 and had approximately 2,300 communities and 180,000 fans as of March 2022. Product managers share user feedback with the development team, and product features are updated approximately every one to one and a half months. The stated development environment includes GCP and AWS; JavaScript with Node.js, Swift and Kotlin; MySQL, BigQuery and Redis; Slack and Notion; and agile development.
Required qualifications include communication skills for smooth interaction with internal and external stakeholders, web application development experience, experience working as an engineer, and a bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics or an equivalent field. Native-level Japanese and business-level or higher English are required. The role involves communication with external development teams, including logistics and payment SaaS companies. Japanese work authorization and alignment with THECOO DNA are also listed as requirements. Experience developing applications with Kotlin or Swift, launching a service from zero, or working as a lead engineer is welcomed.
The position is a regular employee role with a specialized discretionary labor system and a six-month probationary period, which may vary by hiring grade. Annual compensation is JPY 9,000,000 to JPY 16,000,000, determined based on experience, skills and current compensation, with a performance bonus. The workplace is in Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo. The posting notes that most members work remotely and coordinate through Slack and Zoom.
Benefits include social insurance, commuting expenses, influenza vaccination, babysitter-ticket assistance, support for training, study sessions and books, freee welfare benefits, and full support for installation and use of a high-speed home internet connection specified by the company. The office has a designated smoking room. Holidays include a five-day Saturday, Sunday and public-holiday schedule, year-end and New Year holidays, annual paid leave, condolence leave, sick leave, marriage leave, maternity leave, childcare leave, nursing-care leave and vaccine leave. Selection consists of document screening, first interview, second interview, final interview and an offer.
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