Lead Engineer (Mantra Engine)

Primary Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and operating our web services
• Managing an engineering team of about five members
• Building and managing development roadmaps based on business strategies and goals.
• Improving development processes and eliminating technical debt to enhance productivity.
• Extracting user issues and considering feature specifications based on user interviews and data analysis.
• Leading projects where development is the primary focus (e.g., discuss with clients to design APIs)

Basic Qualifications

• Proven experience (3+ years) in leading a team of engineers.
• Experience in designing backend APIs and database schemas for commercial services of a certain scale.
• Hands-on experience in implementing web services from frontend to backend.
• Involvement in team development from the service specification stage.
• Japanese language skill (JLPT N2+)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead.
• Experience in designing, operating, and constructing backend and infrastructure for large-scale services.
• Experience in promoting agile development processes such as Scrum.

The Ideal Candidate

• Someone accustomed to continuous learning
• Able to approach problems by formulating and then verifying hypotheses
• Enjoys communicating with people from different fields and backgrounds
• Able to take ownership and handle working independently
• Strong interest in Mantra's focus areas (manga, language, machine learning)