Senior Software Engineering Manager

Recruitment Background

At CADDi, our mission is to unleash the potential of manufacturing. To make this happen, we are developing and delivering an AI-powered data platform for the industry. We are delivering value not only to customers in Japan, but also across the US and ASEAN countries, and we are growing at a pace far exceeding the T2D3 benchmark.

We believe we have what it takes to become one of the true global champion companies. To sustain this rapid growth and continue delivering value to an even greater number of customers worldwide, we are looking for talented individuals to join us in building the very core of our business, our product.

In addition, our engineering organization is entering an exciting new phase, where we are opening the doors not only to Japanese-speaking professionals, but also to global talent from around the world. We’re seeking individuals with strong technical expertise and project management capabilities, as well as the leadership to help shape our engineering team as we move into this exciting new stage of growth.

These materials are a great place to start if you want to understand who we are and what we do.

• Service Website
• Pursuit of Excellence - CTO Blog

About the Incubation Team

Mission

Our Incubation team is more than just a feature development team. Our mission consists of three pillars:

1. Create more products: Continuously launch new products that solve customer problems.
2. Create more strong teams: Build strong development teams capable of driving product growth.
3. Create structured ways to accelerate these activities: Establish repeatable systems to speed up our creation process.

Why You will love it here!

Deep Involvement in Product Development

• End-to-end ownership from planning to development and operation.
• Close collaboration with Designers, PdMs, and Customer Success.
• A variety of technical tasks across Frontend, Backend, DevOps, Infra, and QA.
• Clear, measurable goals and outcomes.
• All members can contribute to product improvements.
• Directly solve customer pain points and feel the business impact.

A Diverse and Specialized Team

• You'll work in a diverse environment with members from various professional backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of a new application built on top of our core platform, CADDi Drawer, for example, the recently released CADDi Quote.
• Lead the end-to-end development of the application from scratch, including technology selection, domain modeling, and overall architecture design.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams such as product managers, designers, and engineers across multiple teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Play a key role in building a high-performing, globally-oriented engineering team that primarily operates in English.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and ownership to help scale our engineering organization at a pace exceeding the T2D3 benchmark.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and delivering web applications on cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, and Azure.
• Proven leadership in managing teams of 5+ engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable web applications through strong technical excellence and proactive guidance in architecture, implementation, and delivery.
• Fluent in English, able to understand complex, context-heavy discussions and collaborate effectively with a multicultural English speaking team.

Product and Technical Experience

• Experience leading architecture design initiatives and contributing to the technical direction of products.
• Experience leading the end-to-end delivery of B2B SaaS platforms, from requirement definition and design to implementation, delivery, and continuous improvement, ensuring enterprise-level performance, reliability, and security.
• Experience leading the end-to-end development of B2C applications, focusing on usability, performance, and customer engagement throughout the entire product lifecycle.
• Involved in full product lifecycles, including requirement gathering, design, roadmap planning, iterative development, and post-launch improvements.

*Not required to meet all of the above, experience in at least one area is sufficient.

Preferred Qualifications

• Development experience in a Docker-native infrastructure environment - strongly preferred
• Backend development and operation experience for web applications using statically typed languages - strongly preferred
• Experience selecting programming languages, frameworks, and libraries by evaluating pros and cons from both technical and business perspectives
• Experience developing services that include asynchronous jobs, particularly with designing and building the job infrastructure from scratch.
• Proven ability to drive solutions to development productivity challenges through technical leadership, including: establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (especially around Docker), defining and supporting coding standards
• Full Stack Development experience (ideally with React.js).
• Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in complex business domains
• Designed, developed, and maintained microservices architecture in a distributed environment
• Built secure web applications with a strong awareness of modern security best practices
• Successfully led and completed projects involving multiple stakeholders.

A portrait of our Ideal Candidate

We want to work with engineers who,

• Understand our mission "Unleash the potential of manufacturing".
• Can confront essential challenges and take action with a sense of ownership to resolve them.
• Can perform their duties with a positive attitude and constructive discussions in fast-changing and highly uncertain situations.
• Can communicate and discuss with a respectful attitude, considering the context and resolution of others.
• Are not just “coders” but proactive leaders!

Work Environment

• Location: Tokyo (We offer extensive relocation support, so please don’t hesitate to apply even if you’re currently living outside Japan!)
• Workplace: Hybrid

Holidays & Time Off

• Annual paid leave (available after 6 months of employment), plus 3 days of special paid leave upon joining
• Summer vacation (3 days, can be taken at your discretion between July and December)
• Year-end and New Year's holidays (6 days)
• Refreshment leave (5 consecutive days every 5 years of service)
• Nursing and caregiving leave (available after 3 months of employment)(up to 4 days per year, includes care for pets)
• Bereavement and celebratory leave

Compensation

Starting salary range is 8.5 - 12 million yen per year, based on experience, with opportunities for growth and increased earnings. The annual salary will be divided into 12 equal monthly payments. We also offer a stock option program.

Team-Building Support

• Club activity support fund: 1,500 yen per member, per activity
• Teaming offsite cost assistance: 5,000 yen per person, available once per quarter
• Meal allowance for internal team interactions: 2,000 yen per person, available once per month
• Meal allowance for cross-team interactions: 3,000 yen per person, available once per month

Learning & Development

• Server cost assistance: Up to 10,000 yen per month (available to engineers)
• Book purchase support: Reimbursement available for work-related books
• External training support: Reimbursement for fees of relevant courses and programs

Family & Life Support

• Marriage gift: 50,000 yen; Childbirth gift: 100,000 yen
• Relocation assistance: Support available for job-related moves
• Childcare allowance: 15,000 yen per month for each dependent under the age of 18