Engineering Manager
- Tokyo
- Partial Remote
- Full-time
- July 30, 2025
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
About amptalk
amptalk's mission is to maximize the time people spend with each other and to create opportunities that did not exist in the world until today.
They aim to create a society where people can live more efficiently by accomplishing tasks that humans alone can not do.
amptalk develops and markets products that allow users to focus more on high-level sales activities and accelerate sales generation through the use of voice recognition and various AI technologies. They hope to help create more opportunities in the world by developing these efficient and effective sales tools.
amptalk’s mission is to create "a world where people are empowered around conversations”.
They are creating a world where each and every person is empowered by using software to streamline and eliminate unnecessary tasks, and by using software to do what people have been unable to do until now. Conversation accounts for a large percentage of people's lives in society, and the concept of negotiation is not only used in business negotiations, but also in all aspects of human life, including romantic relationships. Yet, many aspects of conversations have not been given much opportunity to be reevaluated. amptalk presents such opportunities through developing software to create a world in which each individual is empowered and all users are happy.
Why amptalk - "An exceptional team with a deep understanding of pain points"
amptalk is a product-driven team that respects each other and is committed to excellence. They are a team of people who respect each other and are committed to being the best. They work in a diverse environment of nationalities and languages, unlearning from past experiences and sometimes using them as ideas to provide innovative solutions for their users and to make the world a more amazing place. amptalk focuses on creating products that solve problems by removing the focus from unnecessary and uninspiring tasks.
MISSION, VISION, and VALUE
MISSION - Maximize the time people spend with each other. The responsibility of sales and other customer-facing positions is to determine how much time they can spend with customers in a higher-quality manner. amptalk will unlock sales operations to maximize the amount of time spent talking to customers, and minimizing all the peripheral operations and communication barriers that are preventing the forementioned.
VISION - To create opportunities that didn't exist yesterday. The world is losing countless opportunities due to the inefficiencies of conversations and human behavior. By streamlining all sales-related tasks, such as training and administrative work, amptalk will create opportunities that didn’t have the chance to exist before.
VALUES
GET IT DONE
The best people are those who take initiative and execute. Ideas and theories alone accomplish nothing. Don't be a critic. Act first, instead of overthinking.
EXTREME OWNERSHIP
Let's stop drawing lines based on roles or titles. Break down barriers and treat everything as your own responsibility. Treat problems happening elsewhere as your own, and step outside the box to challenge yourself if it helps the team move forward.
EXPLORER
In a rapidly changing world, we applaud those who have a proactive spirit of exploring and taking on new challenges, and are always eager to try new things.
GIVE FIRST
Do good without expecting anything in return. Acting bases on short-term gains alone won't lead to real change. Put yourself in the shoes of society, our customers, and others, and act on what truly matters.
Service
amptalk analysis - A tool for analyzing phone calls and business meetings
Linking with all communication tools such as IP phones and video conferencing systems, amptalk analysis automatically transcribes, summarizes, and analyzes business negotiations and calls and automatically outputs the results to Salesforce / HubSpot / Slack / Microsoft Teams chat. This automated and visualized online negotiation process is available for both online and offline business meetings.
amptalk coach - An AI role-playing tool for rapid sales performance improvement
This AI-powered role-playing tool is designed to train sales professionals. It leverages AI to learn from sales materials and case studies, allowing users to practice sales conversations interactively. This helps new and junior employees quickly gain practical sales knowledge, learn autonomously, and apply their skills, essentially serving as an AI manager for speedy and realistic sales training.
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