[Hiring] Bilingual Engineer Manager @GAIDOOR株式会社

Role Description

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that teams are able to deliver and that their work remains coherent across the organisation. You will support technical leads in making their own decisions while maintaining consistency across shared platforms, dependencies, development environments, and engineering standards. The role includes:

• Hiring, development, performance evaluation, regular 1-on-1 meetings, and team structure planning.
• Communicating realistic effort estimates and delivery commitments to business stakeholders.
• Working with teams to identify and resolve bottlenecks.

Key Responsibilities

• Cross-Team Coordination:
  • Coordinate shared platforms, dependencies, development environments, and engineering standards across teams.
  • Align priorities and resolve blockers that affect multiple teams.
  • Maintain consistency while allowing teams to make appropriate decisions within their areas of responsibility.
• Technical Lead Support:
  • Help technical leads make informed decisions rather than making decisions on their behalf.
  • Provide technical guidance and support when teams encounter difficult problems.
  • Help establish environments where proofs of concept can run without destabilising other systems or teams.
• People Management:
  • Participate in hiring and team formation.
  • Conduct regular 1-on-1 meetings.
  • Support engineer development and provide candid, constructive feedback.
  • Carry out performance evaluations and help build effective teams.
• Delivery and Stakeholder Alignment:
  • Communicate realistic engineering effort estimates and commitments to business stakeholders.
  • Make capacity, dependencies, priorities, and delivery risks visible.
  • Work with product and business teams to align expectations with engineering capabilities.
• Process Improvement:
  • Support the review and improvement of existing development processes.
  • Identify bottlenecks together with teams and help resolve them.
  • Establish missing processes where necessary.
  • Agree on final decisions regarding new processes with other Engineering Managers and engineering leadership.
• AI-Assisted Development:
  • Promote the introduction and practical use of AI development tools.
  • Operate and maintain usage guidelines, including security and information-management requirements.
  • Help teams use AI tools responsibly within their development workflows.

Qualifications

• Japanese Language Business Level and English Business Level.
• Approximately five or more years of experience developing web services or SaaS products.
• Experience as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead managing multiple engineers, including hiring, performance evaluation, and development.
• Experience introducing or improving Agile development processes.
• Experience coordinating dependencies and priorities across teams.
• Experience driving the introduction and adoption of AI development tools within a team, or using such tools daily in your own work.

Ideal Candidate

• Takes an active interest in helping people grow.
• Gives candid and constructive feedback.
• Coordinates effectively across teams and stakeholders.
• Earns technical trust through sound judgment and practical understanding.

Benefits

• Employment type: Full-time employee.
• Estimated annual salary: Up to ¥13 million.
• Location: Head office in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
• Work arrangement: Fully remote within Japan.
• Working hours: Flexible hours, with core time from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
• Holidays: Weekends and Japanese national holidays; approximately 122 days off annually.
• Additional leave: Paid annual leave, seasonal leave, refresh leave, and life-support leave.

Company Description

This company is one of Japan’s most established and respected enterprises, with over 1,200 employees and a remarkable 400-year history in the construction industry. The CEO graduated in the United States and is highly committed to innovation—has made a strategic decision to build the company’s first-ever in-house digital and product development organization. To achieve this, he has recruited some of Tokyo’s top technology leaders, including a world-class CTO & CIO.

The company aims to become a global leader in DX solutions and already has offices in:

• India
• Singapore
• Indonesia
• Vietnam