5 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and lead architecture, prototyping, development, and launch of international-market solutions.
- Lead complex, cross-team execution from design through launch, including roadmaps, technical direction, migration plans, rollout strategy, and long-term operability.
- Drive engineering excellence across reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
- Influence regional and cross-functional roadmaps, resolve tradeoffs, and lead through ambiguity.
- Mentor engineers within and outside the team.
Requirements
- Fluency in English is required; Japanese or Korean working proficiency is a plus.
- 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including Tech Lead responsibilities.
- Track record of leading end-to-end delivery of high-impact, user-facing products from technical design and implementation through launch and post-launch operations.
- Ability to set technical direction for a team or multi-team area, including architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technical roadmaps.
- Strong product mindset connecting technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact.
- Expertise designing and operating highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient systems with operational readiness.
- Experience working in cross-functional, global environments and driving alignment across teams and time zones.
- Ability to mentor and develop engineers, raise quality through reviews and coaching, and establish best practices.
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