Manager, Software Engineering - Jobsearch Backend

Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
Full-time
September 6, 2023

Your job

The team

The Job Search Back End team builds and operates Indeed's flagship job search engine, handling billions of requests per month over the world's freshest job data with high performance and reliability. Our focus is to continuously scale and improve this platform, and to help the broader family of Indeed engineering teams integrate their features with ease. As the nexus of job search, we see and guide the "big picture".

We believe a healthy work-life balance is essential to a productive and happy team. We work realistic hours and have flexibility to completely disconnect during vacation. Additionally, an emphasis on code quality and reliability allows us to avoid on-call commitments outside of office hours.

Your job

As a Software Engineering Manager on the Job Search Back End team at Indeed, you will guide a team of talented, professional, and driven engineers to improve job search platforms at Indeed using industry best practices.

Responsibilities:

Deliver product and engineering solutions.
Evaluate team members and coach them to improve their performance.
Advise team members on career direction.
Steward a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
Identify and drive process improvements to make your team more effective.
Provide thoughtful guidance to teams in the broader organization.
Influence and drive technical direction and product goals.

Who you are

You understand that the best managers serve their teams, removing roadblocks and helping individual contributors establish autonomy and ownership. You know how to encourage engineering teams and earn the respect of talented software developers. You create opportunities for your team to develop new skills and advance their careers.

You are equally happy talking algorithms and data structures as you are about career growth and the engineering process. You want to be in the mix technically while providing leadership to your teams. You are comfortable learning new things on the fly and you help others balance scalability, speed to market, and long-term maintainability.

Lastly, you understand that finding employment is more difficult than it should be, and you want to help people get jobs.

Requirements:

BS in Computer Science or related area, or relevant work experience.
Experience guiding a team to deliver high-performance, distributed systems.
Success in establishing new engineering practices and measuring the impact.
Experience with evaluating team members' performance.
Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, C#, Python, C++, or related.
Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and data storage at scale.

Nice to have:

Success with managing partially or fully remote teams.
Solid track record of coaching team members through promotions and career goals.
A broad understanding of API technologies such as GraphQL, REST, gRPC, or related.
Experience building cloud-based solutions.
Experience with information retrieval. For example, strong knowledge of search engine technology such as Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene, or related.

Who we are

We are a rapidly growing and highly-capable Engineering organization building the most popular job site on the planet. With engineering hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Tokyo, Singapore, Hyderabad, Dublin, Aberdeen and Vancouver, we are improving people's lives all around the world, one job search at a time.

Our mission

As the world’s number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We're looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.

(*comScore Total Visits, September 2021)

Salary Range Disclaimer

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Indeed salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), an open Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits.

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About Indeed

The company behind the "world's #1 job site" and one of the absolute best options for software developers in Japan. They're known for their international environment, competitive salaries and eye-opening perks. They employ some of the top developers in Japan and don't require Japanese skills.

Japanese Language Policy
Indeed's primary language is is English. There are teams internally that work on products focused on the Japanese market, and these teams will need to know Japanese.
Visa Sponsorship
Indeed sponsors Japanese visas for engineers. The only condition is that you meet the requirements of the Japanese government (but this is the case at every company). This usually means that you'll need a bachelor's degree or 10 years of demonstrated work experience in your field.
Paid Leave
Indeed offers an open vacation policy to full-time employees across all of their global offices. This means that there's no limit on paid time off. There aren't many companies doing this in Tokyo so it's a pretty nice perk.
Benefits
Indeed has some pretty nice benefits, which they say is because they want to enable their employees to do their best work possible.

Here are some of the top ones:

🍔 Daily catered meals

🍭 Endless snacks and drinks

💰 Incentive programs

🏋️‍♀️ Wellness days and fitness classes

⛱ Lots of open spaces and private areas to focus in their offices

👕 Casual dress code

🎳 Support group activities for employees

🍻 Regular happy hours at their Tokyo offices
Engineer Interview Process
Indeed's interview process varies a bit based on the role, but for engineers it's usually something along these lines:
- Whiteboard coding challenges
- Resume-focused, soft-skills conversational interviews
- Code review exercises
- Architecture discussions
- Management interviews (if applicable)
During the onsite round (which can be done via video chat if you're overseas), you'll meet with a few different members plus some senior managers. If you're visiting the office in person, you'll have the chance to check out the office and have lunch with your potential teammates.
Remote Work
Indeed trusts their employees to work where they’re most comfortable and productive. That’s why they offer flexible working options to their employees.

The options for the majority of engineering roles are:
- Working in the office
- Fully remote from home
- A combination of remote and in office
Work style
Indeed "trusts their employees to manage their time in a way that works best for them". They don't have core time. You can work when you want to, as long as you're getting your work done.