Senior Software Engineer, Backend / Full-stack (#1487)
CADDi Inc.
Unleash the potential of manufacturing
Overview
At CADDi, our mission is to unleash the potential of manufacturing. To make this happen, we are developing and delivering an AI-powered data platform for the industry. We are delivering value not only to customers in Japan, but also across the US and ASEAN countries, and we are growing at a pace far exceeding the T2D3 benchmark.
We believe we have what it takes to become one of the true global champion companies. To sustain this rapid growth and continue delivering value to an even greater number of customers worldwide, we are looking for talented individuals to join us in building the very core of our business—our product.
In addition, our engineering organization is entering an exciting new phase, where we are opening the doors not only to Japanese-speaking professionals, but also to global talent from around the world. We’re seeking individuals with strong technical expertise and project management capabilities, as well as the leadership to help shape our engineering team as we move into this exciting new stage of growth.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of a new application built on top of our core platform, CADDi Drawer — for example, the recently released CADDi Quote. This project is run like an independent startup within CADDi, aiming to create a product that could exceed T2D3-level growth on its own. You’ll be part of a fast-moving, entrepreneurial team building entirely new value from zero.
- Lead the end-to-end development of the application from scratch, including technology selection, domain modeling, and overall architecture design.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams such as product managers, designers, and engineers across multiple teams to ensure successful delivery.
- Play a key role in building a high-performing, globally-oriented engineering team that primarily operates in English.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of hands-on professional experience building web applications on cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, and Azure.
- Successfully led web application development projects with teams of 5+ members. Leadership may have been demonstrated through:
- Strong technical excellence *1
- Strong proactivity and leadership skills. *2
- Fluent English communication skills, including understanding context-heavy information (the team will be mostly English-only speakers!)
*1 What Strong Technical Excellence Looks Like in Practice:
- Experience leading architecture design initiatives
- Experience in researching and developing core functionality and technically complex aspects of products for at least 3 years.
- Experience in handling non-functional aspects of technical products like performance, observability, or availability as well as dealing with ambiguity in their roles.
- Experience having worked in multiple different programming languages.
*2 What strong proactivity and leadership skills look like in practice:
- Making estimations regarding how long development would take and which features to prioritize
- Ability to guide other engineers to systematically improve their product and delivery cycle
Preferred Qualifications
- Development experience in a Docker-native infrastructure environment – strongly preferred
- Backend development and operation experience for web applications using statically typed languages – strongly preferred
- Experience selecting programming languages, frameworks, and libraries by evaluating pros and cons from both technical and business perspectives
- Experience developing services that include asynchronous jobs, particularly with designing and building the job infrastructure from scratch.
- Proven ability to drive solutions to development productivity challenges through technical leadership, including: establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (especially around Docker), defining and supporting coding standards
- Full Stack Development experience (ideally with React.js).
- Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in complex business domains
- Designed, developed, and maintained microservices architecture in a distributed environment
- Built secure web applications with a strong awareness of modern security best practices
- Successfully led and completed projects involving multiple stakeholders.
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 8.5 million to 12 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)
- Infrastructure: Docker, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Istio, Cloudflare
- 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
- Application Review
- Coding Assignment
- Technical Writing Sample
- HR Interview
- 1st Round Interview (Engineer)
- 2nd Round Interview (Engineering Manager)
- Final Round Interview (CTO/VPoE)
Please note that additional interviews or discussions may be proposed depending on the situation.
About CADDi
CADDi’s mission is to unleash the potential of manufacturing.
The global manufacturing industry — worth over 2,000 trillion yen — still runs on fragmented data, faxed quotes, and unstructured drawings. Critical information is often buried in PDFs or paper files, creating silos between design, procurement, and production. This leads to repeated mistakes, inefficiency, and a huge loss of potential across the supply chain.
At CADDi, we’re solving this by transforming manufacturing data into a connected, usable form. Our core product, CADDi Drawer, converts 2D drawings into structured data and links them to related information such as quality records, order history, and costs. This allows manufacturers to access and reuse knowledge instantly — eliminating redundant work and enabling smarter, faster decisions.
Building on this foundation, we’re developing a global data platform for manufacturing, with new tools like CADDi Quote that digitise and streamline supplier quotations. By turning everyday operations into structured, shareable data, we’re helping manufacturers everywhere unlock their true potential.
Founded in 2017, we have 600+ employees across offices in Japan, the USA, Vietnam and Thailand. We recently raised 9.1 billion JPY in our Series C, bringing our total raised capital to 25.7 billion JPY.
Why Work at CADDi?
Significant Challenges
Despite being a major global industry, manufacturing has seen little innovation in the procurement domain. Working at CADDi means tackling these challenges head-on and becoming a creator of global standards.
Challenge the Real World
Manufacturing industry challenges are complex, involving real-world operations. At CADDi, engineers collaborate with manufacturing experts, not merely replacing analogue processes with digital ones but also developing new methods alongside the field.
Global Work
In CADDi’s development environment, building a global supply chain is crucial. Engineers from diverse countries come together, conversing in both Japanese and English. They exchange ideas on an equal footing, always pursuing the core essence.
The Thrill of Building a Business
CADDi is at a stage of concurrent product development. Most new joiners will be on the front lines, expected to build products, generate revenue, and transform the industry through their creations.
Outstanding Growth Opportunities
The rapid expansion of both business and organisation provides unique growth opportunities. By taking on daily challenges and making tough decisions, engineers can grow significantly.
Development Team Members
CADDi’s engineering team is composed of experts, including Kaggle Grandmasters and former CTOs. Their exceptional expertise fuels the organisation’s strength.
How We Work
- Flextime System: core hours 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Many employees have kids, and the company values family time.
- Hybrid Work:
- Employees can work both on-site and remotely (Tokyo head office in Asakusabashi; Kansai office in Sonezakishinchi, Osaka).
- A recommended in-office day is Wednesday, to enhance collaboration, where Scrum events and meetings are concentrated. This allows for focused development on other days.
- Many members live outside the Tokyo metropolitan area.
- Feel free to discuss working styles and office attendance during interviews.
- Bilingual Environment:
- About 20% of members are from countries outside Japan.
- Company-wide All Hands and Tech All Hands are conducted in both Japanese and English.
- Key announcements and documents are provided in both languages.
- Some teams primarily conduct business in English.
- Health Management: Health checkups, comprehensive health check subsidy, Flu vaccination, and more.
- Growth Support: Book purchase reimbursement, CADDi award, external training support, and more.
- Team Cohesion Initiatives: including company kick-off and parties, club activity support, team meal support, and more.
- Other Benefits: Holidays: includes summer vacation, year-end and New Year holidays, bereavement leave, nursing/care leave, and refresh leave; Transportation costs, Child Allowance, Marriage Leave and Bonus, Maternity Leave and Bonus, Parental and Care Leave, and more.
This is a direct job posting from CADDi Inc.
To apply for this role, please email a copy of your resume, along with a brief self-introduction & explanation of your interest in the role, to caddi@paulroberts.jp. Your application will be forwarded directly to CADDi for review.
Note: Please ensure you meet the language requirements of the role before you apply. This position is open to applicants outside Japan. Visa sponsorship is available.