Lead product planning and execution of the satellite data platform, ensuring successful delivery of strategic programs with stakeholders.
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Axelspace (micro-satellite company; operates a 5-satellite Earth-observation constellation, AxelGlobe, imaging a 55km swath every 2–3 days, plus AxelLiner one-stop satellite services) seeks an Engineering Manager to lead full-stack engineering for AxelGlobe. You manage teams across backend, frontend and analytics while driving the platform roadmap — sitting at the intersection of engineering leadership, architecture and product execution, guiding teams building the customer-facing platform (self-serve purchasing, developer APIs, AI-powered analytics), with strong product ownership as dedicated product/UX functions still evolve. Responsibilities: engineering leadership (1:1s, goals tied to platform metrics like API activation, search-to-download conversion, uptime SLOs; sprint planning; developing acting leads; hiring); technical architecture and quality (architectural integrity as the platform scales; design reviews for APIs, data-delivery, developer tooling, billing, GIS; code-review/testing/incident standards; observability; responsible AI-assisted development); product execution (translating strategy into quarterly plans; customer-focused engineering); and cross-functional collaboration with satellite-data-pipeline and cloud-infra teams. Mandatory: 7+ years of software engineering with 3+ years leading multi-discipline teams; strong backend/production-data-infra background; managing product-engineering teams delivering customer-facing systems end-to-end; database schema design and query optimization (including spatial workloads); production AWS (ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, messaging); API-design best practices; improving delivery metrics; business-level Japanese and English (the engineering team operates primarily in English, with Japanese needed for stakeholders, satellite operations and enterprise customers). Preferred: geospatial/Earth-observation/satellite systems, STAC APIs, developer platforms, production ML/computer vision, usage-based billing, IaC. Full-time, salary negotiable, based in Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. (Bilingual Japanese/English posting.)
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