Engineering Manager

Job Description 

Role Overview

This role involves organizational management activities to maximize the value delivered by the engineering teams and the broader technology organization.

• Setting goals for development teams and managing progress toward those goals

• Fostering the growth of development team members through one-on-one meetings, performance feedback, and more

• Promoting engineering recruitment and external public relations activities

• Designing the organization with future business and product scaling in mind

• Proposing and implementing strategies to maximize the value of the engineering organization

*Depending on your experience and aspirations, you may be responsible for managing one or multiple teams.
*For the first few months after joining, you are expected to join a development team as a member to gain an understanding of the product and build relationships with stakeholders, gradually transitioning into management responsibilities.

About the Development Organization

Engineers, designers, and product managers are organized into 10+ teams of 4–6 members, each focused on areas such as feature development (e.g., blueprint usage, search, estimation), data infrastructure, machine learning/MLOps, R&D, Enabling (QA, SRE), and Security.

The organizational design incorporates team topology principles to balance "team autonomy and speed" with "cross-team standardization for overall optimization."

About 20% of the development members are from overseas (Asia, Europe, North America, etc.). Some teams communicate primarily in English, and important meetings are held in both Japanese and English to support a multinational working environment.

Appeal of the Position / Gained Experience

• Solve challenging problems with passionate team members

• Contribute social value through the development of products that transform industrial structures

• Gain experience scaling global products and globally distributed development teams

• Work alongside experienced professionals, including former CTOs of leading Japanese startups

Required Qualifications (English Translation)

• Proven leadership experience as a leader or manager in a development organization, delivering measurable results

• Experience leading a single team of approximately 5–6 members or more, or multiple teams

• Hands-on experience in developing and operating products as a software engineer

• Fluent business-level Japanese communication skills

• Able to carry out daily work in Japanese, including text-based and meeting communications

  • e.g., JLPT N2 level or about 3 years of work experience in a Japanese environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Management experience in a multinational team

• Experience managing teams in fast-growing organizations

• Experience promoting Scrum or other Agile development processes

• Business-level English proficiency

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Resonates with CADDi’s mission: “Unlock the potential of the manufacturing industry”

• Capable of maximizing team potential through both teaching and coaching while respecting individual thinking

• Takes initiative in tackling fundamental challenges and acts with a sense of ownership

• Maintains a positive attitude and engages in constructive discussions even in fast-changing and uncertain environments

• Communicates with respect for others, considering context and level of understanding

Development Environment

• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js

• Backend: Rust (axum), TypeScript, Node.js (Express, Fastify, NestJS)

• ML/Algorithms: Rust, Python, OpenCV, PyTorch, TorchServe, Elasticsearch, Vertex AI

• Infrastructure: Google Cloud, GKE, Anthos Service Mesh, Istio, Cloudflare, Argo Workflows

• Event Bus: Cloud Pub/Sub

• DevOps: GitHub, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm, Terraform, Datadog, MixPanel, Sentry

• Data: CloudSQL (PostgreSQL), AlloyDB, BigQuery, dbt, trocco

• API: GraphQL, REST, gRPC

• Authentication: Auth0

• Dev Tools: GitHub Copilot, Figma, Storybook

• Communication Tools: Slack, Discord, JIRA, Miro, Confluence