Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Zeals, a rapidly growing tech company in Japan revolutionizing hospitality through conversational commerce technology. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead engineering teams, drive technical excellence, and ensure successful project delivery. This role offers flexibility across teams and functions, focusing on building a high-performing team culture and aligning engineering strategies with business objectives. Zeals provides a fair, highly flexible, and inclusive work environment. We recently secured nearly $40 million in funding, showcasing our market potential and growth trajectory. We offer competitive salaries and a range of benefits, including flexible working arrangements and visa sponsorship.

Requirements

• 3+ years of management experience in cross-functional teams
• A deep understanding of backend/frontend technologies, APIs, microservices architecture, and integration patterns
• Excellent communication, leadership, and coaching abilities with both backend and frontend engineers
• Experience in project management, prioritization, and roadmap planning
• A proven track record of delivering integrated solutions that meet business requirements

Responsibilities

• Shape engineering teams
• Drive technical excellence
• Ensure successful delivery of impactful projects
• Foster a high-performing team culture
• Align engineering strategies with business objectives
• Deliver high-quality products and services
• Build and nurture high-performing teams
• Drive project execution and delivery
• Shape technical strategy and scalable architecture
• Maintain excellence in quality and reliability
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration and transparency
• Make strategic, data-driven decisions
• Optimize operations and cost efficiency
• Attract, hire, and retain top talent

Preferred Qualifications

• Japanese language proficiency at a business or native level
• Understanding of cultural differences
• Knowledge and experience in chatbots, AI, marketing, and SaaS products

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Performance review twice a year
• 10 days paid holidays during the first year, weekends off, national holidays, summer and winter break
• Visa support
• Highly flexible, remote-first organization (in Japan), Interim work from overseas
• Housing allowance (within 1.5KM away from office)
• Club activity allowance
• Team building allowance and Lunch allowance
• Zeals Bar (bi-monthly free flow beer party)