(Bilingual) Engineering Manager, Platform Services (#1501)

Background

CADDi is on a mission to “Unleash the potential of manufacturing.” Launched in 2022, “CADDi DRAWER” is a groundbreaking product that uses technologies such as machine learning to structure and link critical design data, considered vital in the manufacturing sector. This innovation transforms this data into valuable informational assets. Already, we have received significant adoption from leading domestic manufacturing companies and machining firms, growing at a pace far exceeding T2D3. In 2023, we expanded our sales efforts to international markets, including the United States, Thailand and Vietnam.

Our vision for the future is to replicate and consolidate manufacturing expertise through technology, extending beyond blueprints to achieve holistic optimization across departments and companies. We aspire to transform our customers’ workstyles and cultures, ultimately driving a revolution in the entire manufacturing industry. Over the next few years, we plan to globally deploy numerous new applications on our platform. Achieving this scale and speed of business expansion requires a foundational platform, robust infrastructure, and unparalleled reliability to support all these applications.

The CADDi Core Division is at the heart of ensuring that the products we continuously create deliver value globally, quickly and reliably. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to maximize the productivity of the development organization within the CADDi Core Division and lead its business growth.

Responsibilities

※What is an Engineering Manager at CADDi?

• Your mission is to maximize the results of the departments and groups you oversee.
• Setting OKRs to chart the course forward and perform necessary management tasks by working backward from our desired future state.
• The role of an EM is not rigidly defined; we believe the approach to achieving results should align with each individual’s strengths. For example, some excel at empowering others to drive outcomes, while others lead design and policy decisions directly on the ground. The balance between technology management, project management, product management, and people management also varies depending on each EM’s assigned domain and key focus areas.

This recruitment position is primarily for leading a team involved in application development and platform development. The team is composed of members from multiple countries and operates as a global team.

• Setting and managing team goals aligned with business strategy and product vision.
• Developing team members through 1-on-1 meetings, performance evaluations, and feedback sessions.
• Driving recruitment initiatives and external communications to strengthen our engineering brand.
• Designing organizational structures optimized for scaling the product and business.
• Planning and implementing effective information-sharing processes to enhance productivity in a bilingual (Japanese and English) environment.
• Identifying issues, proposing initiatives, and executing measures aimed at maximizing the value and effectiveness of the engineering organization.

About the position

You will be responsible for managing platform service development within the CADDi Core Division, which oversees the common infrastructure (including goal setting for your assigned domain and various management activities to achieve those goals).

The mission of the CADDi Core Division is to develop and expand platform services that bear responsibility for solving common technical challenges across applications, thereby driving the overall business growth of CADDi through the power of its technological foundation.

※The following tasks are not handled by a single manager at once; responsibilities are divided based on assigned areas, current priorities, and individual strengths and preferences.

• Promoting Platform Servitization: Planning, development, and operational policy management for foundational services independent of business logic
• Advancing Platform Engineering: Developing and providing platforms and tools to enhance company-wide developer experience (DX)
• Close collaboration with EMs and Product Managers in application development organizations
• People Management for Development Teams: Recruitment, Development, Evaluation, Organizational Design, etc.
• Formulation and Execution of Technical Strategy: Selecting appropriate technologies and optimizing infrastructure costs based on business phase and ROI

※Examples of areas of responsibility

• File Platform: Responsible for unifying file upload and download functionality required by multiple applications.
• Workflow Engine: Responsible for providing the execution foundation to perform large-scale batch processing in a defined sequence.
• Additionally, develops and provides foundational services to resolve technical challenges within applications.
• If your interests or strengths lie closer to the application layer, you may also be assigned to manage the Reliability domain (which includes SRE, QA, and Product Security) within the application development organization.

Around 30% of our development team members come from various international backgrounds, including Asia, Europe, and North America. To build a thriving multicultural environment, some teams communicate primarily in English, and critical meetings are held bilingually in both Japanese and English.

As a manager, you’ll be responsible for leading diverse, multinational teams. Depending on your experience and organizational needs, you may manage one or multiple teams. The exact team(s) you’ll oversee will be decided based on your expertise and preferences discussed during interviews and will be presented during the offer stage.

Internal communication within teams is primarily in English, whereas communication across teams involves a mix of Japanese and English, but a high level of Japanese proficiency isn’t necessary.

This role provides you with opportunities to tackle challenging problems alongside passionate colleagues, contribute to a product that’s reshaping industry structures and creating social impact, participate in scaling a global product and international engineering organization, and experience significant professional growth by working closely with experienced leaders, including former CTOs of publicly listed SaaS companies.

※Based on your experience and preferences, you will be expected to manage either a single team or multiple teams immediately upon joining.

※Alternatively, you may start by actively contributing hands-on for several months to deepen your technical understanding, build relationships with stakeholders, and gradually transition into management duties.

※Regarding your initial responsibilities: We will propose your assigned area during the offer discussion, referencing the preferences and strengths discussed during the casual meeting and interviews. We also look forward to discussing the details of each organization during the casual meeting.

About development organization

Our team includes top-tier technical leaders in Japan, such as CTO Kobashi, ex-Apple US Headquarters, and VPoE Fujikura, former CTO of Sansan. We are tackling an unprecedented mission: fundamentally transforming an entire industry. That’s why we’ve cultivated a culture that embraces the unfinished and challenges the unimaginable future. We prioritize unlocking individual potential, inspiring each other to build a development organization that delivers greater value to customers faster, and collectively create a world-class development platform to support it.

※Examples of team members you’ll be working with

• CTO Aki– Articles he wrote:
  • Building for the future in 2025
  • The pursuit of Excellence
• VPoE Fujikura – Management philosophy for building a strong development organization Video 成長企業の開発組織デザイン
• Engineering Manager Takeshi Matsuda (George)
• Engineering Manager Masaaki Sugiura – An article he wrote: “What’s more important than English for working with engineers around the world” 世界のエンジニアと働くために「英語」よりも大切なこと ※Reference materials that provide insight into the atmosphere of the CADDi development organization
• キャディによる挑戦の本気度（VPoE藤倉のnote）
• 600人でも「0.1合目」の異次元な挑戦──“3年で数十個”のハイグロースなプロダクト開発に挑むキャディの開発組織
• AI時代を生き残る、次世代のエンジニアに必要なこと

The appeal of this position and the experience you’ll gain

• Drive business growth with technology, leveraging unparalleled impact. The unique thrill of this role lies in directly impacting business growth by driving productivity across multiple products and a developer team set to expand to hundreds. The enhanced developer experience and reliability you lead will accelerate CADDi’s overall growth.
• Challenge yourself with a modern platform tightly integrated with the business To meet the demands of a rapidly growing global business, you’ll constantly pursue a modern, scalable tech stack. Gain rare experience introducing and practicing world-class practices like Platform Engineering, SRE, and FinOps while directly feeling the business impact.
• Diverse Business Phases and Flexible Career Paths To launch numerous upcoming products, you’ll tackle technical challenges across all phases—from building flexible foundations supporting “0→1” launches to enhancing reliability for scaling “10→100”. While deepening expertise in foundational domains, you can also envision a future career leading larger organizations.
• Challenge in a Global Development Structure As our business globalizes, our development organization is diversifying. You’ll gain dynamic experience building and operating infrastructure across multiple regions, and creating a world-class platform alongside developers from around the globe.

Requirements

• Experience demonstrating leadership as a manager in an engineering organization developing in-house products, directly contributing to business outcomes
• Experience in people management within an engineering organization (recruitment, evaluation, development, organizational design, etc.)
• Experience in design, build, and operations experience as a platform engineer, backend engineer, or cloud infrastructure engineer
• Fluent business communication skills in Japanese. (Ability to conduct daily work entirely in Japanese, including written communication and meetings)
• Business-level English proficiency

Nice to haves

• Experience developing large-scale file upload/download functionality
• Experience developing execution platforms for large-scale batch processing
• Experience designing and operating large-scale web services (high traffic, high availability)
• Experience building and operating application platforms in Kubernetes environments
• Experience designing and building architectures on public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience driving Platform Engineering and enhancing developer experience
• Experience within rapidly scaling businesses and development organizations
• Experience managing teams composed of multinational members
• Management experience in rapidly growing organizations or startups

We want to work with individuals who have this kind of mindset

• Individuals who understand our mission “Unleash the potential of manufacturing”.
• Individuals who can confront essential challenges and take action with a sense of ownership to resolve them.
• Individuals who can perform their duties with a positive attitude and constructive discussions in fast-changing and highly uncertain situations.
• Individuals who can communicate and discuss with a respectful attitude, considering the context and resolution of others.

Salary Package

• Initial annual salary is estimated to be in the range of 10 million to 14 million yen.
  • Salary reviews will be conducted twice a year.
  • The annual salary will be divided into 12 equal monthly payments.
  • Stock option program available.

Development Environment

• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js
• Backend: Rust(axum),TypeScript,Node.js(Express,Fastify,NestJS)
• Machine Learning・Algorithm: Rust, Python, OpenCV, PyTorch, TorchServe, Elasticsearch, Vertex AI
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine, Anthos Service Mesh, Istio, Cloudflare, Argo Workflows
• Event Bus: Cloud Pub/Sub
• DevOps: GitHub, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm, Terraform, Datadog, MixPanel, Sentry
• Data: CloudSQL (PostgreSQL), AlloyDB, BigQuery, dbt, trocco
• API: GraphQL, REST, gRPC
• Authentication: Auth0
• Other tools: GitHub Copilot, Figma, Storybook
• Communication: Slack, Discord, JIRA, Miro, Confluence

Selection Process

• Document screening
• Coding test（Online coding test）
• This test aims to assess the logical thinking ability and minimum coding proficiency required for a Manager within our technical organization. For more details, please refer to here(https://recruit.caddi.tech/codingtest-english).
• 1st interview (Engineering Manager)
  • Based on your past experiences, we would like to ask mainly about the initiatives you have undertaken and the results you have achieved.
• HR talk
  • This stage does not involve selection criteria; it serves as an opportunity to align on conditions and clarify any questions regarding the selection process.
• 2nd interview (VP of Engineering / Engineering Manager)
  • You will be asked to work on a pre-assigned task, and we will have a discussion about it on the day of the interview.
  • This interview will be conducted in Japanese.
• Final interview (CTO)
• Offer interview

*Please note that, depending on the situation, additional interviews or discussions may be proposed.

*If desired, we can arrange casual interviews with employees even during the selection process. Please feel free to consult with us.

*The average time from application to offer is about one month, but if you are in a hurry, please let us know. We will do our best to adjust the schedule to fit your job search timeline.

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