【AD Platform】Engineering Director — Head of India Development Center

About GENIEE, Inc.

GENIEE, Inc. was founded in April 2010 with the vision of “creating a world-class technology company from Japan, like GAFA.” The company achieved a stock market listing only seven years after its founding and has continued to deliver strong growth in both revenue and profit.

As a company specializing in marketing technology, GENIEE operates businesses including advertising platforms, marketing SaaS, and digital PR. We continue to grow as a rare company that owns both ad technology and marketing technology products.

In 2020, GENIEE was selected for the Financial Times “High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific” ranking.

In 2023, GENIEE established JAPAN AI, Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary focused on the rapidly growing AI market. JAPAN AI’s technologies create synergies with GENIEE’s existing products, contributing to strong growth across the entire group. By providing cutting-edge solutions, we help customers improve operational efficiency and productivity.

The “High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2020” ranking surveyed more than 50 million companies across 12 countries in the Asia-Pacific region and selected 500 companies with outstanding revenue growth from 2015 to 2018. GENIEE ranked 357th overall and 11th among technology companies selected from Japan.
https://geniee.co.jp/news/20200525/232

Why We Are Hiring

As our business continues to expand, we are strengthening the organization at our India development center.

To support future product growth, we need an engineering leader who not only possesses strong technical expertise but can also formulate mid- to long-term technology strategies, manage manage engineering organizations, and drive decision-making from a business perspective.

In this position, you will serve as the technical leader of the India development center and lead the development organization from three perspectives: technology, organization, and business. You will also play a key role in strengthening our global development structure.

Responsibilities

As the Engineering Director of our India development center, you will be responsible for a wide range of areas, from technology strategy planning to organizational management.

【Technical Leadership】

• Design and review system architecture
• Engage in hands-on software development when necessary
• Visualize and drive the resolution of technical debt
• Manage incident response and drive improvements for production incidents

【Technology Strategy】

• Develop and drive multi-year technology roadmaps
• Research competitors’ technology trends and technology stacks
• Plan and promote strategies related to non-functional requirements, including security, anomaly detection, and development productivity improvement

【Business】

• Deepen understanding of business models and key customers, and reflect that understanding in the development organization
• Participate in initiatives such as Quarterly Business Reviews — QBRs — to deepen business understanding and propose improvements
• Manage and optimize development-related costs, including personnel costs, infrastructure costs, and system costs

【Organizational Management】

• Improve motivation and engagement across the engineering organization
• Enhance and develop the technical capabilities of the entire team
• Develop future engineering managers and technical leaders
• Improve development productivity and operational excellence, including through the use of AI
• Foster an organizational culture in which members proactively identify technical issues and drive improvements that contribute to business growth

What You Will Gain in This Role

• You will be involved in decision-making across technology, organization, and business as the leader of a global development organization.
• You will define mid- to long-term technology strategies and lead technology investments and organizational development directly linked to business growth.
• You will gain experience in organizational management while working closely not only with engineering but also with management and business strategy teams.
• You will drive new challenges such as improving development productivity through AI and building a global development culture.

Organization

You will oversee the engineering organization at the India development center and promote product development in collaboration with global development teams, including teams in Japan, as well as product managers and business divisions.

Career Path

• Technical leader overseeing multiple development centers

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of engineering management experience, including experience developing talent
• Experience designing and reviewing architecture for large-scale web services or SaaS products
• Experience formulating technology strategies and technology roadmaps
• Business-level communication skills in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Management experience in a global development organization
• Development experience in the AdTech domain
• Experience developing and operating large-scale systems using cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Experience improving development processes through the use of AI
• Knowledge and experience in security, SRE, or platform engineering
• Experience as a technical leader such as CTO, VPoE, or Director
• Experience managing development investments and costs from a business perspective

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are looking for someone who:

• Can lead development hands-on while remaining close to the technology and drive technical decision-making and architecture design
• Can lead the development organization through strong technical expertise and demonstrate technical leadership trusted by engineers
• Is interested not only in technology but also in business outcomes, and can make decisions from a business perspective
• Is passionate about developing team members and building organizations, and can maximize overall team performance
• Can proactively identify issues and drive continuous improvement while involving others
• Can communicate smoothly with diverse members in a global environment and enjoy taking on challenges amid change

Selection Process

Resume/CV screening → Interviews — 2 to 3 rounds → Job offer

Candidates will be asked to complete an SPI aptitude test and reference check before the final interview.
A coding test may also be conducted.