Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Challenge Markets Japan

As a Software Engineering Manager at Indeed, you will provide hands-on leadership of a team of developers. You are comfortable learning new things on the fly and helping your team learn unfamiliar systems and technology. You make pragmatic technology decisions to balance scalability, speed to market, and long-term maintainability. You document implementations effectively and work with internal and external stakeholders to validate integrations and deliver them to customers.

You understand that the best managers serve their teams, removing roadblocks and giving individual contributors autonomy and ownership. You have led engineering teams and earned the respect of talented software developers. You are equally happy talking about algorithms and data structures as you are brainstorming about the agile development process and technology career development. You want to be in the mix technically while providing leadership to your teams.

You will be managing engineering teams within the Challenge Markets Japan. The Japanese market is a very unique market with its own challenges and opportunities. The teams build new innovative solutions for both jobseekers and employers, as well as optimize and customize existing solutions for Japan. We make deep investments in areas such as providing better and richer user experiences, improving data quality and search relevancy, and building partnerships and integrating solutions with other players in the Japanese market

Responsibilities

• Lead a two-pizza team of engineers, building solutions in the indeed platform to suit the Japanese Employment market
• Work cross-functionally with Product, UX, and other disciplines to drive projects to completion and deliver the best possible product
• Understand and advocate for sustainable engineering practices, balancing the need to ship fast with the need to keep your team happy and productive and the services you own healthy, scalable and maintainable
• Grow and mentor your team, helping the juniors become seniors and the seniors to lead at scale and across the larger org, giving them the right opportunities to grow and providing direct and indirect coaching.

• BS in Computer Science or related area, or relevant work experience. Prior success as an Engineering Manager and experience building high-performance distributed systems
• Experience with at least one of the following languages: Java, C++, Python, C#, Ruby. Solid knowledge of data structures and a deep understanding of web technologies
• Prior experience building cloud-based solutions, especially on AWS
• Strong knowledge of databases, both SQL and NoSQL and experience with service-oriented and event-driven system architectures

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.

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.

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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.