Engineering Manager – Japan
BjakInsurance Comparison company
Tokyo, JapanManager
BASS Investment
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead a high-performing engineering team building and scaling products for millions of users.
- •KIRA is building tools to help people get more from their money, aiming to make financial applications accessible and reliable for everyone.
- •They are expanding their offerings beyond insurance to include spending, saving, investing, and more, with a vision to leverage AI to achieve these goals.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend, and full-stack development.
- •Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring speed and quality.
- •Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across various systems.
- •Develop engineers through feedback, coaching, and performance management.
- •Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, and technical excellence.
- •Requirements Strong software engineering background with experience building and shipping production systems.
- •Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
- •Strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
- •Strong people leadership with the ability to coach engineers and build high-performing teams.
- •Comfortable working fast with ambiguity and driving teams toward clear outcomes.
Required skills
Engineering ManagementPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDGit
Nice-to-have skills
MicroservicesAgile
Domain expertise
fintech
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerKubernetesCI/CDGit