Sr. Engineering Manager

Team

You will lead a new-product squad of ~5 engineers. A dedicated Tech Lead owns architecture; your focus is people, process, and velocity.

Mission

Help fulfill amptalk’s purpose “Maximize the time people can truly face each other.”

You will accelerate delivery of a brand-new product by removing organizational and technical friction while still contributing code where it counts.

Key Responsibilities

Team Building & Hiring

Define hiring needs, run interviews, and onboard new engineers to strengthen the team.

Performance Management & Career Growth

Set individual goals (OKRs/KPIs), run regular 1:1s, give feedback, and support promotions or skill development.

Culture & Process

Foster an engineering culture and continuously improve team processes.

Cross-Functional Coordination

Act as liaison between product management, design, QA, and other departments to unblock and align work.

IC Contribution

Although the Tech Lead retains ultimate responsibility for technical decisions, as an individual contributor the EM must be able to contribute to product development at a coach‐level.

Must to have

3+ years leading engineering teams (5 members or more)

Hands-on web-application development (design, coding, ops)

Demonstrated ability to drive delivery and cut through ambiguity

Comfortable toggling between high-level team enablement and hands-on execution when needed

Business-level Japanese and Fluent English communication skills

Nice to have

Our stack: Nuxt.js / TypeScript, Node.js, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora PostgreSQL), AWS CDK

Large-scale system or legacy refactor projects

Modern engineering practices (DDD, TDD, Clean Architecture)

Integrations with Salesforce or other SaaS platforms

Managing multicultural, distributed teams