Engineering Manager
Applications: candidates must already be in Japan. Visa sponsorship: available. Japanese: Conversational. English: Fluent. Japan Dev tags: Engineering, Manager.
Team
You will lead a new-product squad of ~5 engineers. A dedicated Tech Lead owns architecture; your focus is people, process, and velocity.
Mission
Help fulfill amptalk’s purpose “Maximize the time people can truly face each other.”
You will accelerate delivery of a brand-new product by removing organizational and technical friction while still contributing code where it counts.
Key Responsibilities
Team Building & Hiring
Define hiring needs, run interviews, and onboard new engineers to strengthen the team.
Performance Management & Career Growth
Set individual goals (OKRs/KPIs), run regular 1:1s, give feedback, and support promotions or skill development.
Culture & Process
Foster an engineering culture and continuously improve team processes.
Cross-Functional Coordination
Act as liaison between product management, design, QA, and other departments to unblock and align work.
IC Contribution
Although the Tech Lead retains ultimate responsibility for technical decisions, as an individual contributor the EM must be able to contribute to product development at a coach‐level.
Must to have
- 3+ years leading engineering teams (5 members or more)
- Hands-on web-application development (design, coding, ops)
- Demonstrated ability to drive delivery and cut through ambiguity
- Comfortable toggling between high-level team enablement and hands-on execution when needed
- Business-level Japanese and Fluent English communication skills
Nice to have
- Our stack: Nuxt.js / TypeScript, Node.js, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora PostgreSQL), AWS CDK
- Large-scale system or legacy refactor projects
- Modern engineering practices (DDD, TDD, Clean Architecture)
- Integrations with Salesforce or other SaaS platforms
- Managing multicultural, distributed teams