Engineering Manager

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About Macromill

Macromill is a leading company in online research and marketing research. By leveraging online survey data and consumer purchase data, we help businesses better understand consumer needs and behavior, enabling them to make smarter marketing decisions.

To support our next stage of growth, we are undergoing a major technology transformation. We are rebuilding our platforms with modern technologies and a powerful data foundation to deliver faster, more accurate, and more scalable marketing research solutions.

About the Engineering Organization

Our engineering organization is built around four key pillars:

• Product Ownership
• Domain Knowledge
• AI-Powered Engineering
• Global Engineering

Our goal is to evolve from a software development organization into a product engineering organization that creates measurable business impact.
As an Engineering Manager, you will play a key leadership role in driving this transformation.

Responsibilities

Lead Engineering Teams

• Maximize the performance and impact of engineering teams.
• Set team goals, track progress, and drive continuous improvement.
• Improve engineering productivity, software quality, and development processes.

Drive Product Delivery

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, and business stakeholders to deliver high-value products.
• Prioritize initiatives and manage project risks.
• Balance delivery speed, product quality, and business value to achieve sustainable product delivery.

Develop Engineers

• Conduct regular 1-on-1 meetings, provide coaching and feedback, and support performance evaluations.
• Help engineers grow through career development and mentoring.
• Support individual growth using our Engineering Ladder framework.
• Foster a psychologically safe and inclusive team environment.

Support Technical Decision-Making

• Partner with Tech Leads to drive technical strategy.
• Reduce technical debt and improve long-term maintainability.
• Promote the adoption of AI development tools and emerging technologies.
  Improve system quality, reliability, operability, and security.

Strengthen the Organization

• Participate in hiring and recruitment.
• Support onboarding and team integration.
• Contribute to organizational design and cross-team improvement initiatives.
• Foster a strong engineering culture.

Drive Global Engineering

• Collaborate with engineering teams across Japan, India, and Vietnam.
• Lead diverse, multicultural teams and promote effective cross-cultural collaboration.

Why Join Us?

Lead a Major Engineering Transformation
Macromill is undergoing a significant engineering transformation. As an Engineering Manager, you will help shape our organization, engineering processes, and culture.

Build the Future of AI-Powered Engineering
We actively embrace AI development tools and generative AI—not only to improve engineering productivity, but also to create new business value through our products.

Work in a Global Engineering Organization
You'll collaborate with talented engineers across Japan, India, and Vietnam while building products for global teams.

Grow as Both a Technical and People Leader
Working closely with Tech Leads and Architects, you'll gain broad experience spanning engineering management, product delivery, and technical strategy.

 Application Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Engineering Management

• 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
• Experience in performance management, coaching, hiring, and developing engineers.
• Proven track record of leading engineering teams and delivering successful outcomes.

Software Engineering

• 5+ years of experience developing web applications or cloud-based services.
• Experience with Agile software development.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, and operations.
• Strong interest in AI development tools, generative AI, and emerging technologies, with a passion for leveraging them to improve engineering processes and productivity.

Project Leadership

• Experience leading product development projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience in project prioritization and risk management.

Communication

• Professional proficiency in Japanese.
• A positive attitude toward working in an English-speaking environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing global engineering teams.
• Experience building cloud-native systems.
• Experience leading organizational transformation or building engineering organizations as an Engineering Manager.
• Understanding of DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering.
• Business-level English communication skills for meetings, chat, and documentation.

Who are we looking for

• Someone who takes ownership of the success of the product and the team, and proactively drives outcomes.
• Someone who is passionate about supporting the growth of team members and maximizing the overall performance of the team.
• Someone who can make informed decisions in ambiguous situations, influence stakeholders, and lead change with a positive mindset.
• Someone who is eager to learn and apply new technologies and development practices, including AI, to improve both the organization and the product.
• Someone who embraces challenges, continuously learns, and fosters ongoing growth for both themselves and their team.