Autify

Engineering Manager, Genesis

Remote Tokyo, Japan
Machine Learning JavaScript PyTorch Terraform Ruby Python Kubernetes React PostgreSQL Redis Docker Go TypeScript AWS
Description
| 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 San Francisco-based startup that was founded by the first Japanese team to graduate from Alchemist Accelerator, one of the top accelerators in the US. With the mission to empower people’s creativity through technology, we have been offering an AI-powered automation platform aiming to eliminate the test phase.

Since 2019, we’ve been providing our AI-powered nocode test automation product and have grown the team to 100+. Our next move is to double down on GenAI. As we have been investing in AI and helping customers’ software quality since 2019, we know how to best utilize GenAI in software QA. With that, we have recently launched our new product, Genesis, a GenAI agent for software quality assurance. 

| 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 and oversee 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.

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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 5 years of experience designing and supporting software development, and backend implementation 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. Technical interview: 60min
3. HR interview: 45 mins
4. Final interview: 45min

Note: We will request you provide references after the final interview.

| 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
- Permanent employee (Full-time)
- Probation period: 6 months after joining the company (conditions are the same as permanent employment)

Work Location
- Tokyo office or Remote (Hybrid)

Work Hours
- Full flextime time
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

| Resources

- Autify Genesis

- Autify No-code

- Career

- Blogs

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