Engineering Manager
Position
Engineering Manager
About us
WealthPark is a startup IT venture to provide asset management and management platform application.
Currently, we are taking on the challenge of “visualization” of non-liquid assets in the real estate industry, which is one of the alternative assets.
WealthPark closed JPY 540 million in Series A financing in May 2019, JPY 907 million in Series B in August 2020, and JPY 2.5 billion from JIC Venture Growth Investments, bringing the total amount raised to JPY 4.398 billion.
Blog – about the Engineering team and technology stack at WealthPark
Employee Interview of Engineering Department
Employee interview – Mobile Team (in JP)
Employee interview – QA Team (in EN)
Employee interview – Backend Team (in EN)
Mission
WealthPark’s mission is to build an alternative asset platform through innovation and entrepreneurship and ownership.
Job Description
Engineering managers commit to building organizational structures, systems and solving organizational issues, creating opportunities for engineers to be more active, and contributing to the execution of engineering, products, and business.
・Building organizational structures, systems, solving organizational issues
・Goal Setting & Evaluation & Feedback system design
・Evaluation & Feedback
・WealthPark’s maturity as an engineering organization is still in its infancy, and we need to create and improve mechanisms for goal setting, evaluation, and feedback. You will not only be responsible for goal setting and evaluation but will also be committed to building the system.
・Hiring
・Recruit great engineers in collaboration with our VP and HR team
・Squad Management
・Discuss & Design Squad structure with VP and Agile Coach and PM.
・We believe that the unit and definition of Squad will vary depending on the organization and business situation. Domain, project, product, and so on. While communicating with VPs, PMs, Agile Coach, and sometimes with the engineering organization, we think about the best structure and implement it continuously.
・In each squad, act as a contact point for the engineering side and handle the necessary communication with PM and business side. As a responsibility of EM, solve or support any issue that the engineering organization has to execute
・Assignment, any support for execution
・Technical Management
・Engineering manager compiles the technical liabilities and improvement plans for the engineering organization and make Technical Roadmap with VPs.
・Responsible for planning and implementing solutions to issues that arise during system operation from a technical perspective. We believe that resolving issues also has value for the Engineering Manager, so you will be deeply committed to the operation as well.
Background
As our business expands, the number of engineers is also rapidly increasing.
In this context, there are still areas where we are immature as an organization and where we have not yet caught up with the construction of systems. As more and more products and projects are developed, there are cases where optimal engineering management is not possible.
WealthPark is looking for an Engineering Manager who can take on the challenge of creating a place where engineers can be more active.
Required Requirements
Technical Skills / Experiences
・Managing a multicultural team
・Hiring engineers (application screening, interviewing, etc.)
・Evaluation and follow-up of engineers (evaluation interviews, target setting, career advice, 1on1, etc.)
・Strong experience in at least one of the following:
Backend: Design, development, and operation of APIs using PHP or Ruby
Frontend: Development related to frontend fields such as web browsers, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, or Redux
Soft Skills
・English(90% of engineers are non-Japanese. We are a very international team.)
・Highly organized person.
・Have motivation for team development.
・Be able to weigh several and often conflicting constraints and make decisions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company.
・Continuously learn new technologies and find ways to solve issues and requirements.
Benefits
Salary and Evaluation system
It will be decided in consideration of experience and skills.
・Annual salary system
・Evaluation: twice a year
・Probation time: 3 months (conditions do not change during the probation time)
・The annual salary includes 35 hours of overtime work
Insurance
・Social insurance (Health insurance, Employee pension, Employment insurance)
Working Hours
10:00～19:00
* flextime system (core time 11:00 to 16:00)
Holiday and Leave
・Saturday and Sunday
・Public holiday
・Refresh holiday
・New-year / Year-end holiday
・Annual paid leave
・Celebratory leave
・Special holidays
・Postnatal leave
・Parental leave
Welfare and Other
Welfare
・Welcome lunch (with CEO, with Division and Department)
・Welcome drinking
・Internal events (Year-end party etc.)
・Free drink (Water server and instant coffee and tea)
・Installation of vending machines
Other
・PC: MacBook Pro + 1 Monitor *Monitor can only be used in the office
・No smoking in the office
・Until COVID-19 is settled and we’re ready to issue visas, you can start working remotely from abroad