Senior Software Engineer in JAPAN

We offer relocation support, so please don’t hesitate to apply even if you’re currently living outside Japan!

Recruitment Background

At CADDi, our mission is to unleash the potential of manufacturing. To make this happen, we are developing and delivering an AI-powered data platform for the industry. We are delivering value not only to customers in Japan, but also across the US and ASEAN countries, and we are growing at a pace far exceeding the T2D3 benchmark. We believe we have what it takes to become one of the true global champion companies. To sustain this rapid growth and continue delivering value to an even greater number of customers worldwide, we are looking for talented individuals to join us in building the very core of our business—our product. In addition, our engineering organization is entering an exciting new phase, where we are opening the doors not only to Japanese-speaking professionals, but also to global talent from around the world. We’re seeking individuals with strong technical expertise and project management capabilities, as well as the leadership to help shape our engineering team as we move into this exciting new stage of growth. These materials are a great place to start if you want to understand who we are and what we do.

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Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of a new application built on top of our core platform, CADDi Drawer — for example, the recently released CADDi Quote.
• Lead the end-to-end development of the application from scratch, including technology selection, domain modeling, and overall architecture design.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams such as product managers, designers, and engineers across multiple teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Play a key role in building a high-performing, globally-oriented engineering team that primarily operates in English.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and ownership to help scale our engineering organization at a pace exceeding the T2D3 benchmark.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building web applications on cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, and Azure.
• Successfully led web application development projects with teams of 5+ members. Leadership may have been demonstrated through:

-Strong technical excellence*1

-Exceptional project management capabilities*2

• Strong English communication skills, including understanding context-heavy information

*1 What Strong Technical Excellence Looks Like in Practice

-Experience leading architecture design initiatives.

-Experience selecting programming languages, frameworks, and libraries by evaluating pros and cons from both technical and business perspectives

-Experience developing services that include asynchronous jobs, particularly with designing and building the job infrastructure from scratch.

-Proven ability to drive solutions to development productivity challenges through technical leadership, including: establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (especially around Docker), defining and supporting coding standards

*2 What Exceptional Project Management Capabilities Looks Like in Practice

-Successfully led and completed projects involving multiple stakeholders. Responsibilities included planning development timelines, defining requirements, scheduling, and managing progress.

-Led initiatives to resolve challenges in the development process, including establishing a structured testing process and introducing Scrum to the team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Backend development and operation experience for web applications using statically typed languages - strongly preferred
• Development experience in a Docker-native infrastructure environment - strongly preferred
• Led development process improvements grounded in Scrum and Agile methodologies
• Designed and built large-scale systems spanning multiple teams
• Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in complex business domains
• Designed, developed, and maintained microservices architecture in a distributed environment
• Built secure web applications with a strong awareness of modern security best practices