Engineering Management jobs in Japan

Insights from Engineering Managers in Japan

"The Engineering Culture is Unmatched" at Treasure Data
with Carlo Luis Espinosa
Carlo, a Staff Software Engineer, shares how Treasure Data’s latest AI initiatives are opening up unprecedented opportunities for both the company, and his career.
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Rapid Growth and Big Impacts at Mercari as an Engineering Manager
with Ryan Ginstrom
Ryan Ginstrom describes his unexpected career turn towards being an engineering manager, and the unique freedoms he's found at Mercari.
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Succeeding as a Senior Engineer at Kraken
with Jos Vennik
Jos is a senior software engineer and team lead of the payments and collections team at Kraken. He is also a line manager and a tech lead. Jos tells us about the environment at Kraken, what his job involves, and what makes working there so rewarding.
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Becoming CTO of KOMOJU
with Richard Ramsden
After graduating from university, Richard came to Japan and found a job as a software developer. Eventually he joined KOMOJU, where he rose to the role of CTO.
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Identifying and fixing problems at KOMOJU
with Kazunori Kajihiro
Kazunori initially joined KOMOJU as a web application engineer, but by identifying problems he wanted to fix, his role shifted first to VP of Infrastructure, and then VP of Payment Products.
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Growing your career by asking for you want
with Ashwini Meshram
Ashwini leads one of PayPay’s payment sub-teams. She got there by doing something she’s done throughout her career: identifying something she wants to do and asking to do it.
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Building a critical service doesn't need to be stressful
with Nigel Baillie
Nigel was fresh out of college when he joined KOMOJU as a developer. He's now risen to tech lead, where he's helped build out their payment platform while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
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How to retain a high-performing engineering team
with Wil Andrade
Since joining Givery’s HR Tech division as an engineering manager two years ago, Wil Andrade has helped scale their engineering team from nine to twenty-four engineers. Wil shares how he's not only grown a team, but provided an environment where no one wants to quit.
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Joining Mercari as a tech lead
with Jieqiong Yu
Jieqiong shares her experience of joining Mercari and working as a tech lead. She explains their engineering culture and provides tips for potential applicants.
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Zeals Pushed Him Out of His Comfort Zone—and He’s Glad
with Or Perlman
Or Perlman shares how Zeals’s focus on end users transformed his career and led to business success.
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How Spike Went from Developer to CTO at Colorkrew
with Ning Li
Ning “Spike” Li shares how his proactive stance helped grow Colorkrew’s team, expand its product line, and earn him the title of CTO.
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Bringing AI to the Construction Industry with EARTHBRAIN
with Paul Neculoiu
Paul is the AI Lead at EARTHBRAIN, where he’s been tasked with building out their AI roadmap and AI team. He talks about the opportunities for AI technologies in the construction industry, what sort of team he hopes to build and what projects he expects to be working on.
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Engineering management at SmartNews
with Cortland Klein
Cortland recently joined SmartNews as an engineering manager, where he leads a six person team. He talks about what drew him to the company, his role as a manager, and how they use matrix management to maximize their engineers’ success.
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