Engineering Manager / EM - Platform

About the position

Foundation is a platform team within MeetsMore responsible for improving developer experience, software quality, tooling, and delivery speed at MeetsMore.

This means that we are responsible for many things, including:

• Developer tooling.
• Building core platforms that power critical functions (e.g. search, identity)
• Refactoring existing critical code for performance and maintainability.
• Analyzing performance.
• Socio-technical problems like improving developer culture by leading through example and developing tooling to solve problems.

We are primarily a team that exists to support developers, find our own work, and make things better in the background.

It’s a dynamic role where you will have the opportunity to do many different things across the company, and requires understanding of a lot of different areas.

A good description of the role is that it is similar to an SRE/Devops position, with more focus on coding rather than operations.

However, it is not an SRE position, and we have a separate SRE team who we collaborate with closely.

You should have full-stack application development experience, it is a development role rather than an infrastructure one.

You have a lot of freedom to make things better, but are expected to take initiative to find places to apply this freedom and improve things at an organization-wide level without being told explicitly what to do.

Our Tech Stack

Not exhaustive, but the most important are:

• TypeScript everywhere.
• NodeJS.
• NestJS.
• React.
• MongoDB.
• Postgres.
• CDK-TF (in TypeScript).
• Kubernetes (EKS).
• AWS (Specifically ECS, CloudFront, S3, Lambda).
• Datadog.
• RabbitMQ.
• Redis.

Requirements

• You have experience designing and building production-grade distributed systems from the ground up. This involves writing custom application code to integrate cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS), observability and monitoring platforms (e.g., Datadog), and other distributed systems.
• Either be conversational Japanese, or a desire to do so (we will help).
• Be located in, or be willing to relocate to Japan (we will re-locate). Please be sure to note in your application if you’re already based in Japan or not.

Nice to haves

This is a team lead position, and you will need to have proven team lead skills.

• Experience managing a team of 4 or more engineers.
• Soft skills, growth, support, mentoring, 1:1 management of team members.
• Experience with year-long planning, roadmaps, etc.
• Ability to set and deliver against KPIs.

Hiring Process

• Casual chat

  A 30-minute casual chat with a MeetsMore engineer to tell you more about us and give you the opportunity to ask questions.

• Coding interview

  A 1-hour coding interview, this will be done in TypeScript and is a real-world scenario, not a LeetCode style problem, we want this stage to be as realistic as possible so using Google and Stack Overflow etc. is fine.

• System architecture and design

  A 1-hour casual chat with another engineer where you’ll discuss system architecture and design.

• A chat with the CTO

  A 1-hour casual chat with Fumi-san, our CTO.