Engineering Manager, Mobile Foundation

  • Tokyo
  • Partial Remote
  • Full-time
  • August 24, 2022
Conditions
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Apply from Anywhere 👍
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Relocation to Japan 👍
(Overseas visa sponsorship supported)
Requirements
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Language Requirements
Japanese: Not Required 👍
English: Business Level
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Minimum Experience
Senior or above

Team mission

  • Build a scalable mobile app architecture that allows fast development of challenging features and radical changes.
  • Build a scalable infrastructure to support a high pace of the development
  • Foster an environment for all mobile teams to become more productive and happy at work.


Role and Responsibility

  • Lead engineering team that is responsible for iOS/Android foundation
  • Collect requirements from mobile developers, backend teams, and other stakeholders
  • Consider improvement methods and develop a clear roadmap
  • Encourage ingenuity and maximize member's output


Requirements

Minimum requirements

  • Experience in mobile development
  • Strong leadership and communication skills
  • Deep knowledge of modern application architecture
  • Experience in improvement of development environments, such as, CI/CD and, build scripts
  • Experience in performance tuning (in any platforms)


Preferred experience

  • Experience in web development
  • Experience working for consumer product
  • Knowledge of mobile app security or privacy
  • Knowledge of OS fundamentals
  • Experience in leading platform/mobile teams
  • Experience in cloud infrastructure


Benefits

Perks and Benefits at the SmartNews Tokyo Office

  • Support program for employee’s self-development and well-being
  • Healthy lunches are prepared on-site daily in our SmartKitchen, located in our West Office building. You can even see the cooks at work!
  • Need a pick-me-up? Stop by ChikyuCoffee, our in-house coffee shop located in both the East and West Office buildings, and get a cup of gourmet coffee, espresso-based beverage, or other seasonal drink!
  • SmartNews provides all healthcare and social insurance benefits required by Japanese labor law


Visa Sponsorship and Relocation Support

For candidates who meet eligibility requirements, SmartNews can sponsor visas to support a smooth transition for candidates who are moving to Japan from overseas, SmartNews partners with a travel service provider.

Recently crowned Japan's latest tech unicorn, this company runs a wildly successful news service that’s powered by machine learning. It's an engineering-focused company (One of co-founders is an engineer) and they have offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Shanghai, Beijing that are apparently doing quite well too.

The mission of SmartNews is to discover and deliver quality stories to the world. Since its inception in 2012, the SmartNews app has been downloaded over 50 million downloads and maintained a monthly active user count of over 20 million.

In addition to being one of the most popular smartphone apps in Japan, SmartNews has worked hard on building their business in the US. They now have partnerships with over 300 major news publications in the US like CBS, Entertainment Weekly, Business Insider, National Geographic and more. They’ve had a great deal of success due to their ML-based sorting and recommendation systems.

SmartNews has a highly diverse development team with many world-class engineers and others working from their offices in Japan,China and the US. They maintain a very strict hiring bar for technical hires and an engineering-driven culture that makes them one of the strongest tech companies in Japan when it comes to technical skill level.

SmartNews is looking to hire the best people regardless of background, so they’re willing to hire people that don’t speak Japanese and (under normal circumstances) bring them to Japan from overseas if necessary. Everyone works together as one team regardless of location, and SmartNews provides everything their employees need to do their best work and maintains a Silicon Valley-inspired culture for engineers in Tokyo.

SmartNews's policies during COVID-19 are as follows:

  • All interviews are being conducted remotely
  • Employees are working remotely following the government’s instructions
  • They've given everyone some monetary incentive to support working from home
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Engineering Manager, Mobile Foundation at SmartNews
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