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Woven Planet

Senior Engineering Manager, Productivity Engineering

Tokyo, Japan Remote Hybrid
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Description
Woven by Toyota is the mobility technology subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Our mission is to deliver safe, intelligent, human-centered mobility for all. Through our Arene mobility software platform, safety-first automated driving technology and Toyota Woven City — our test course for advanced mobility — we’re bringing greater freedom, safety and happiness to people and society. 

Our unique global culture weaves modern Silicon Valley innovation and time-tested Japanese quality craftsmanship. We leverage these complementary strengths to amplify the capabilities of drivers, foster happiness, and elevate well-being.

TEAM
The Productivity Engineering team builds solutions so developers can focus on their true passion – software development. We provide tools to automate deploying artifacts to cloud, mobile devices, and vehicles, to meet vehicle security certifications and support testing and simulation. Our mission is to make software development more productive and efficient.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR
You are an engineering manager experienced in delivering complex projects and have first hand experience where and how to provide accelerators that improve engineering productivity. You are focused on customer value and obsessive about working to understand the actual problems engineers are trying to solve. You get agreement from your team, help share software design discussions, and lead delivery of features. You define metrics to track adoption and usage of what you deliver and work tirelessly to enhance value over time. You define strategic goals for the team ensuring features are aligned, minimizing throw away work and refactoring. You understand industry-leading developer productivity engineering technologies and trends charting a vision for the team that inspires and motivates.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Manage the productivity engineering organization, working with product management to break down high-level problems into implementation plans that can then be delivered
  • Manage timelines, resources and budgets to ensure successful feature delivery
  • Ensure organizational health through goal setting, progress monitoring, and promoting growth and training
  • Manage technical debt to achieve long term sustainable velocity through architectural consistency and reuse
  • Occasionally contribute to the development of the product to keep current with the technologies, product architecture and challenges of the team members
  • Identify and address technical challenges and roadblocks
  • Improve engineering excellence across the team. Encourage best practices for maintainable code, including automated testing, continuous integration, code style conformity, and code reviews
  • Report to the Senior Director of Enterprise Technology Engineering

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • B.S., M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
  • 7+ years of professional software development with 3+ years of experience managing a technical team
  • Experience with CI/CD tools, test automation, build tools development, IaC, cloud infrastructure
  • Experience building applications powered by LLMs

NICE TO HAVES

  • Experience designing prompts using known and experimental prompt engineering techniques
  • Experience with Backstage or other developer portal technologies
  • Experience building B2B/B2E/B2C SaaS applications
  • Business level Japanese
All interviews will be arranged via Google Meet, unless otherwise stated.

WHAT WE OFFER
・Competitive Salary - Based on experience
・Work Hours - Flexible working time with NO core-hours
・Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated)
・Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated)
・Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company
・Japanese Social Security - all applicable (Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance)
・In-house Training Program (software study/language study)

Our Commitment
・We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
・Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. Please see our privacy notice for more details.
Woven Planet
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