Engineering Manager Candidate

The Engineering Manager Candidate joins the product organization developing Loglass Management and related B2B SaaS products for corporate planning and management control. The organization includes feature-development teams and cross-functional teams responsible for platforms and infrastructure, with managers collaborating across product teams. The development organization is expanding from approximately 50 to 100 people and is moving toward autonomous, product-based teams while increasing the use of data and generative AI.

The role begins with hands-on engineering work to build understanding of the product and development culture, followed by a gradual increase in management responsibilities. The initial balance may be approximately 70% technical work, while the balance after becoming an Engineering Manager may include 40–50% people management. Responsibilities cover people management, technology management, project management, and strategic management. People-management work includes one-on-ones, career and growth support, evaluations, culture development, engineering recruitment, onboarding, and developing future leaders. Technology-management work includes technology selection, development-process improvement, software quality, developer experience, productivity, generative AI adoption, and monitoring technical debt.

For teams that are still forming, the role may establish development processes, address quality issues, support incident response, and improve delivery predictability while delegating authority and developing the team toward self-sufficiency. Strategic responsibilities include organization and team-structure design, identifying and removing bottlenecks, coordinating across teams, and improving the process from specification through release. The role works with product managers, designers, and other managers to reduce lead time and optimize development outcomes. Regular manager meetings are used to discuss organizational issues and strategy.

Required experience includes leading team or organizational goal setting and performance improvement, participating in engineering recruitment, supporting member development through one-on-ones and evaluations, and at least five years of server-side Web application development. Candidates should understand the importance of testing and refactoring and have improved quality, developer experience, or development productivity. Experience is also required in technical or organizational decision-making during rapid business growth, collaboration with non-engineering colleagues such as PdMs, PMMs, customer success, and sales, and project management involving trade-offs among scope, quality, cost, and schedule. Desired experience includes development with statically typed languages such as Kotlin, Java, Go, or TypeScript, performance-conscious design and implementation, testing methods or domain-driven design, and mentoring or coaching.

The main development tools include Kotlin, Spring Boot, Rust, Go, React, Next.js, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Aurora PostgreSQL, Datadog Synthetics, and Playwright. Other named tools and services include Slack, Gather, Figma, Findy team+, Notion, diaglams.net, Cursor, Claude Code, and Gemini.

This is a full-time regular position in Minato, Tokyo. The probationary period is three months and may be extended to a maximum of six months. Annual compensation is 7,000,000–20,000,000 JPY according to the structured job data, with final determination based on experience and skills; salary reviews occur twice yearly in April and October. Working hours are 10:00–19:00 with a one-hour break, under a flextime system with core hours from 10:00 to 15:00. The position is based at the Tokyo office, with work from home available. Holidays include weekends, public holidays, and December 28 through January 3, with paid leave and other stated leave programs. Benefits include company-leased housing, support for computer-related equipment, and a corporate defined-contribution plan. Health, pension, employment, and workers’ compensation insurance are provided.