Lead FrontEnd Manager

Tokyo
Remote OK
Full-time
December 23, 2023

Background

One of our members concurrently manages the FrontEnd team, but as the organization expands and new business begins, more management responsibilities are being added. At this time, we are looking for a dedicated technical expert to make the FrontEnd team stronger.

While this role also requires People/Project management, it mainly focuses on hands-on technical expertise.

What You Will Do

Help with members' development tasks, to work on their professional expertise and to offer guidance and advice for their challenges and development goals.
Not only responsible for his or her team management, but also works in a scum like everybody else.
By demonstrating professional expertise and touching with reality, the lead frontend manager should consider future architecture, vision and need to understand current technical debts, complexity.
Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers to build new features, and architectures.
FrontEnd development by using `TypeScript`, `React.js` , `Next.js`, and so on.
BFF development by using `TypeScript`, `GraphQL`, `Nest.js` and so on.
Work with Product Manager, Program Manager, and Agile Coach to help front-end engineers develop efficiently
Constantly consider the balance between the time required for system improvements and the time used to deliver the functionality required by the business, and optimize it in discussions with the stakeholder.
Discuss front-end technical direction with senior front-end engineers and tech leads to formulate and plan technology.
Conduct code reviews, and make technical contributions to product architecture as well as getting involved in solving bugs and delivering small features
Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team
Hold regular 1:1's with all members in your team
Give regular and clear feedback around the individual’s performance

Technical Skills / Experiences

7+ years of building software development with software development.
3+ years of building software development with React.
Deep understanding of React and TypeScript and dom.
Experience with building single-page applications with TypeScript.
Experience in interface design of web API.
Accessibility, internationalization, or localization.
Strong UX and design sensibilities and an interest in sweating the small stuff.

Soft Skills

English(90% of engineers are non-Japanese.)
Highly organized person.
Have motivation for team development.
Continuously learn new technologies and find ways to solve issues and requirements.
Can be accountable for driving project execution.
Continuously learn new technologies and find ways to solve issues and requirements.
Be able to weigh several, and often conflicting constraints and make decisions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company.

Nice to Have

Practical experience in evaluation and feedback of people
Experience in managing off-shore engineers
Experience in budgeting
Better understanding of docker, k8s, AWS, terraform.
Experience in restructuring legacy products
Experience in the financial / prop-tech industry.
Experience in development with graphQL, BFF.
Experience in development with grpc.
Experience in development with nest.js.
Communication in Japanese (not required)

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About WealthPark

WealthPark is a start-up that helps investors and real estate companies manage their assets. It's a global company with offices in Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, New York.

WealthPark's goal is to help all the personal investors in the world invest in alternative assets, with a focus on real estate. Their online platform is built with this in mind, and to help modernize the global real estate industry.

Since starting their US business in November 2018, they've been aggressively expanding into the tech community there, and WealthPark NYC is one of the only officially recognized US real estate start-ups that started in Japan. WealthPark is at the forefront of the US real estate industry in New York.

WealthPark has already made it from 0 to 1, and now they're focused on getting from 1 to 10. They want to build an even larger, more diverse team to further expand their product and achieve global success. We recommend WealthPark highly for those that want to work on a diverse team in English.

Our Service

Owner App
Anytime, anywhere. Real Estate management at your fingertips.
WealthPark Business
New synergy between property managers and investors.
WealthPark Asset Management
Leader in Japan Inbound Real Estate Asset and Property Management for Foreign Investors.

Japanese Language Policy
English and Japanese are both official languages at WealthPark.

Japanese is still the main language spoken, but we've built an environment where anyone can thrive as long as they've got the skills required.
We're actively working on improving their English support to help accomplish this.

For engineering in particular, 90% of our team members are non-Japanese, so there's no need to know Japanese (the engineering team speaks primarily English).

We have a lively environment where Japanese, English, Mandarin, Cantonese and other languages are spoken :)
Visa Sponsorship
We do sponsor visas for candidates living outside of Japan.
Paid Leave
- Saturday and Sunday
- Year-end and New Year Holidays (from 30th December through 3rd January)
- National holidays
- Annual Paid Leave
- Refreshment Leave
- Congratulatory and Condolence Leave
- Menstruation Leave
- Sick Leave
- Child Care Leave
- Family-care Leave
Benefits
💻 Dual display for those who want to use it (PC: MacBook Pro + 1 Monitor *Monitor can only be used in the office)

📱 Mobile rental for business use

🍔 Welcome lunch (with CEO, Division and Department), Welcome drinking

☕️ Free drink (Water server and instant coffee and tea)

🍹 Installation of vending machines

👍 No smoking indoors

💛 Internal events (Year-end party etc.)

💜 Various social insurance benefits included
Engineer Interview Process
(1) Document screening

We will contact you if you are able to proceed to the interview stage

(2) Interview
- We set up 3 or 4 interviews.
- The selection flow may be changed
- During the selection period, we may arrange opportunities for casual talks with team members in addition to interviews.
Remote Work
WealthPark requires their members to come to Japan if they are living abroad. There is no designated in-office day, but full remote work is not possible, and it is necessary to live within a commuting area from the office.
Work style
- 10:00～19:00
  - flextime system (core time 11:00 to 16:00)
Behavior Identity

WealthPark's Behaviour Identity was created in 2020. Since we are a "global" and "cross-boundary" team, we use English as our standard language.

CUSTOMER CENTRIC
We act and think based on our customers' expectation and needs. Our business dedicates to providing and adding values for our customers.

GO BEYOND
We go beyond our roles and positions to take actions that we know will help the business as a whole. We are always proacrtively interacting and helping each other.

APPRECIATION AND RESPECT
We respect diversity and communicate appreciation to the team, and show it with words and acting.

COMMIT TO RESULTS
When we commit to something, we will go the distance. No matter what the difficulty is we think about why we can do it, not why we cannot, and stick to delivering the results.

DO THE RIGHT THING
We always act with integrity and honesty to the society. We take pride in doing the right things.

Learn more
- Pitch Deck (written in Japanese)