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Engineering Manager

Japan Dev
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Tokyo, Japan
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Job Description

Job Description

  • Feature implementation
  • Properly design system (DB, internal communication, data flow etc.) to enable the new feature
  • Be responsible to delivery on individual feature implementation
  • Monitoring of tech debt and proactive refactoring
  • Understand shortcuts during feature implementation
  • Keep tabs on tech debt
  • Refactor to enable future feature scaleability and system robustness
  • Work with teams of 2~4 more junior developers

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years of work experience required
  • We prefer people that have spent at least 2 years at a single organization
  • Internal promotion history is strongly preferred
  • Proactiveness to identify problems before they occur, and do something about it
  • Extreme intrinsic intelligence to make the best decisions about short term and long term implementation

Preferred Requirements

  • Experience developing in the fintech/payments space.
  • Excitement working at an early stage startup.
  • Excitement in working with new technologies
  • Experience working with the following stacks
  • Go (Chi)
  • Dig/DI
  • ConnectRPC (Web, Node, Go)
  • Protobuf/Bufbuild
  • Temporal
  • Templ
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Git/Github
  • Jest/Playwright
  • Atlas
  • GORM
  • Prisma
  • PostgreSQL
  • HTML/CSS
  • Tailwind
  • Svelte/SvelteKit
  • TypeScript
  • GSAP
  • Storybook

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First seen: July 2, 2026
Last updated: July 26, 2026