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Autify

Tokyo

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Engineering Manager (Genesis)

Tokyo
Partial Remote
Full-time
September 18, 2024

Global Market for QA

Markets are changing rapidly, and there is a demand for quick software releases. Agile development has become mainstream; on a global scale, 92% of developer teams adopt agile development, 71% of which aim to release at least once a week. With such a rapid cycle, manual verification is too time-consuming, and there is an urgent need for automation. Our services can solve these critical challenges and make our clients a competitive advantage in software development. QA’s global budget is said to reach over $1 trillion. We are rapidly expanding our service reach internationally to win this vast global market.

About Us

Autify, Inc. is a start-up company founded in San Francisco by a team of engineers who were the first Japanese team to graduate from the top US accelerator, Alchemist Accelerator. With the mission to increase creativity with the power of tech, we develop and provide Autify, an AI-powered software testing automation platform.

In October 2019, we officially released Autify for Web, our test automation software that targets web applications. Also, in October 2021, Autify for Mobile for mobile app testing was officially launched, and we closed our $10M Series A. Although the product lineup is continuing to expand, and we have been able to provide all basic functions needed in a test automation platform, we continue to receive requests for new features and improvements.

About This Role

Job Purpose

Genesis is a new product specializing in cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and data analytics solutions focused on the Japanese market. We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Japanese market Genesis team, overseeing the development of core technologies. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to align project goals, mentor engineers, and drive innovation. If you have a strong background in software engineering and exceptional leadership skills, join us to shape the future of technology.

Responsibilities

Create succession strategies and recruit the team members required to fulfill the team's missions.
Share the business vision as well as the team missions with the teams
Facilitate the team’s ceremonies and remove blockers and impediments to support your team's day-to-day operations.
Provide visibility on your team and their progress, through reporting on the different metrics evaluating the team performance as well as engaging with stakeholders through refinements and demos.
Support the product team in delivering fast and high-quality business value.
Be flexible and capable of altering the team roadmap when faced with new information, communicate, and engage the team in delivering new directions.
Identify the different architectural and technical debt challenges, and plan their improvement accordingly.
Support cross-team initiatives and facilitate collaboration within the teams.
Build relationships with your reports, support their career development and motivate members in achieving the team goals.
Empower the engineers and maximize the team's productivity by setting goals, performing evaluations, and utilizing data to improve operational workflow.

Required Qualifications

Over 3 years of Engineering management experience
Over 5 years of experience developing software, and backend experience is a plus.
Ability to communicate and work in English
Until a Visa can be issued, being able to work from your own country with some overlap with Japanese business hours.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working at a SaaS startup company
Have an understanding of QA practices, especially test automation

Selection Process

1. Technical Assignment (Take-home)

2. Engineering Manager Interview (60min)

3. HR interview (45min)

4. Final interview (60min)

Note: We will ask to provide references after the final interview.

Note: We can arrange a casual chat meeting before the first interview upon the candidate's request. (Subject to availability of both parties)

About the Engineering Team

Our Team

Autify's engineering team is international, with more than half of the engineers being foreign nationals and all developers being English speakers. We have a good culture where members respect each other's backgrounds. Since we have two products, Autify for Web and Autify for Mobile, our development engineers are divided into two teams corresponding to each product. We have about 30 front-end, back-end, and technical support engineers who work closely with engineering managers, product managers, QA managers, designers, and machine learning engineers. The product manager is in charge of the general roadmap. The product manager develops a rough roadmap and works with the engineers and designers on the details of each feature and bug fixes before implementation. Depending on the size of the feature, we appoint a feature lead from among the engineers to be in charge of the project and give them the discretion to make technical decisions.

Our Development Process

We create a ticket about what kind of function we will develop. In some cases, the product owner creates it based on user feedback; in other cases, each team creates bugs and investigation requests directly.

The development cycle consists of one Sprint, which takes two weeks. Development tasks are assigned during the planning stage on the first day of the Sprint, and we hold a daily standup meeting to check the overall progress and any problems. (If there is a time difference, it is done at lunchtime).

We review code on GitHub. After the review, the merged branches are automatically deployed to the staging environment, and E2E tests are performed (which Autify does itself).

After testing on the integrated branch, it's deployed to the production environment. Deployment is done several times a week as needed. We also hold sprint ceremonies like Sprint planning, feature refinement and sprint retrospective sessions. The developer will demonstrate the developed function to all employees at the end of the Sprint in the Sprint Demo.

Tech Stack

Backend: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Go
Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Styled Components
Machine learning: Python, PyTorch, Kubernetes, GPT-4
Database: PostgreSQL, Redis
Test: Appium, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Puppeteer
Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Terraform, Packer, MacStadium, GoogleCloud
Monitoring: Datadog, New Relic, Sentry
CI/CD: CircleCI, GitHub Actions
Source code management: GitHub
Project management: Jira
Misc.: G Suite, Slack, Notion, Gather, Zoom, Miro, 1Password, Mixmax, Calendly, etc.

Employment Conditions

Employment Status

Regular employees
Probation period: 3 months after joining the company (conditions are the same as permanent employment)

Work Location

Tokyo office or Remote (Hybrid)

Work Hours

Full flextime system

Note: The determination of working hours (start and end times) must be made to the extent that one's own duties (including guidance and supervision of subordinates) are properly performed and that there are no obstacles to work in terms of coordination and communication with other employees.

Bonus

Twice a year

Holidays/PTO

Complete a five-day workweek system (National holidays, year-end and New Year holidays, etc.)
Unlimited paid time off

Benefits

Equipped with various social insurance
Regular health checkups
Stock option
A laptop PC will be rented when joining the company
Remote work allowance
English learning support
Skill-up support
Visa sponsorship
Relocation bonus
Relocation housing support

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About Autify

Autify, Inc. is a start-up company founded in San Francisco by a team of engineers who were the first Japanese team to graduate from the top US accelerator Alchemist Accelerator. With the mission to increase creativity with the power of tech, we develop and provide Autify, an AI-based software test automation platform.

Over 300 companies have begun using their service since its official release in October 2019, and that number is continuing to grow.

QA’s global budget is said to reach over $1 trillion. We are rapidly expanding our service reach internationally to win this vast global market.

Japanese Language Policy
Autify doesn’t require Japanese skills for engineers. All oral and written communications (including slack and all documentation) is in English, so there’s no need for engineers to speak Japanese.
Visa Sponsorship
Autify’s flexible when it comes to helping you get a visa. They’re willing to hire people currently living overseas and sponsor your visa (as long as you fulfill the Japanese visa eligibility requirements). Autify also allows working from abroad while waiting for your visa to be approved.

They’re even open to having people continue to work remotely from outside of Japan longer-term as long as you can be available during normal business hours in the JST time zone.
Paid Leave
10 days of paid leave and 5 days of sick leave plus public holidays in Japan.
Benefits
💹 Employee stock option plan

💻 New tech gear (Laptop PC will be lent when joining the company)

👩‍🎓 Skill development support

🏠 Remote work allowance

💛 Support for attending conferences

🧡 Seminar participation support

📕 Book purchases

👶 Parental Leave

👩‍🏫 English learning/skill improvement program support

💜 Social security / insurance benefits included

🏥 Healthcare insurance

💚 Pension insurance
Remote Work
Autify is working 100% remotely currently, so they don’t require members to live in Tokyo, if you are able to relocate to Japan. They also have quarterly in-person meetings in Tokyo but it’s not mandatory to commute to Tokyo once every three months. You can also join remotely.

Note: We welcome remote work from other countries as long as you can work during the JST time zone. Those living outside of Japan will remotely join quarterly in-person meetings.
Work style
Work hours: Full flex time (No Core Time!)

Autify allows their members to choose their own hours as long as they average 8 hours a day each month. There may be times when you’re expected to join meetings and you may need to be online during the JST time zone, but otherwise work hours are flexible.