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Lead Engineer, HR Products

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Tech Lead

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Lead development of talent-management and benefits SaaS products, handling feature planning, design, implementation, testing, measurement and improvement, plus CI/CD and infrastructure operations.

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This Lead Engineer role sits on freee's HR product development team, working on the company's talent management and employee benefits SaaS lines (freee Performance Review, freee Survey, freee E-Learning, freee Employee Benefits), with opportunities to also contribute to the larger-scale freee HR Labor Management product. Responsibilities include feature planning, design, implementation, testing, measurement, and improvement across these products; research and investigation of new and core technologies; working with product managers and UX researchers, including user interviews; ongoing operational development such as CI/CD and infrastructure operations; and external communication with OEM product partners. The role does not include work on shared platform infrastructure (e.g. authentication or billing systems) used across freee's products. Requirements: 5+ years of web service development experience, understanding of the architecture and issues of systems previously worked on, and regular use of AI tools in work or personal projects. Preferred: experience developing product features in English-speaking teams (the company has both Japanese- and English-speaking development teams), experience with Ruby on Rails, React, and/or Go, and experience driving product development with external stakeholders. Location: Tokyo. Employment type: full-time.

Job details

Location
Tokyo
Employment
Full-time
Japanese
Japanese
Visa sponsorship
Visa Sponsor
Posted
2026-07-22
Category
Software & IT

About freee

freee is a Japanese cloud-accounting company whose SaaS automates bookkeeping, payroll and tax filing for small and medium businesses.

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Company details

Size
Mid-size
Founded
2012
HQ
Tokyo, Japan
Employees
1,001–5,000
Industry
Fintech · SaaS · Accounting
Funding
Publicly traded

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