Engineering Manager at BoostDraft

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Engineering Manager at BoostDraft. About BoostDraft. BoostDraft is a software engineering company that develops IDE for documents. It was founded by MIT and Stanford grad students, developing an assisted document editor for documents. It is a new document editor that employs error checking, reference checking and auto-completion using both rule-based approach and NLP, like what coding editors/IDE (e.g. VSCode, Pycharm) do.. Please find more information here: . https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KT1SDEOSq4gKSfs-JK0jc4QXdMACAvx61RKyHdPJoJM/edit#slide=id.g269b01abee2_0_0. Background & Traction. We are currently focusing on Lawyers who draft relatively standardized but long documents, such as contracts. With only four years after our product launch, we already have more than 10,000 active paid users. We have several long-term, large-scale contracts with famed enterprises and law firms. As a result, we achieved significant success, including profitability and exponential growth, all without relying on external funding for nearly four years.. BoostDraft was accepted by prestigious accelerator program, MassChallenge (Top 30 US accelerator), StartX (Stanford Accelerator, 7% acceptance rate), MIT Sandbox (Accelerator of Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Join our engineering-first team. At BoostDraft, we prioritize quality over quantity. As an engineering-first company. Around 50-60% of our team members are software engineers with extensive experiences from companies such as Microsoft, IBM, HTC, Yahoo!, and R&D in NTT. Our founder, Yohei, who has proven experience in both Software Engineering and Business management, and has built an organization that values and empowers software engineers.. Technical challenges we solve. Performance improvement using both partial analysis and full analysis. Synchronization between user input and on-memory text. Cache efficiency to increase highlight performance t during/after user input. Security preserving Natural Language Processing, such as Federated Learning. What’re your challenges. Responsibilities of Engineering Manager include:. Being accountable for technical decisions that your team makes, by either making the decision by yourself or reviewing and approving the decisions made by your team members.. Driving your team and project to maximize the outcome of the team in a timely manner under a very dynamic and agile environment. . Growing your team members by giving them incrementally more challenging assignments and ongoing coaching.. Create a psychologically safe environment across the company beyond your local team.. 【Languages】 C#,(partially)Rust, Python . 【FW】 Material Design (UI), .NET Framework 4.8, .NET 8.0 . 【DB】 SQLite, Amazon RDS . 【Log Analysis】 AWS CloudWatch, Elasticsearch + Kibana, BigQuery . 【CI/CD】 GitHub, GitHub Actions(Self-hosted runner (Windows)), Azure DevOps. Japanese Articles: . 【世界展開を目指す BoostDraft 社。AWS の支援を最大活用しユーザーに価値を届けるアーキテクチャへ】. Tech Blog (Japanese):. https://zenn.dev/p/boostdraft. . Culture Blog (Japanese): . https://note.com/boostdraft. . ----------. Ensuring a Fair and Secure Recruitment Process:. In recent years, there has been a growing number of applications submitted with fake or AI-generated profiles, including fabricated work history or impersonated identities. At BoostDraft, we are committed to providing a fair and secure hiring process for all candidates and have implemented the following measures:. During online interviews, . the use of both camera and microphone is mandatory. . If we detect suspicious behavior, we may ask you to . disable video filters . or . perform a simple on-screen action. . If you are unable or unwilling to comply, the interview may be . terminated on the spot. .. By applying for a position or participating in an interview, you are deemed to have agreed to these measures and to cooperate if such requests are reasonably made.. These measures are applied equally to all candidates to ensure a trustworthy and fair hiring environment. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.. If you have any concerns or questions regarding these measures, please feel free to contact our recruiting team.. At least three of the followings: . . Skilled in optimizing collaboration and operations by implementing engineering processes or tools. . Experienced in assessing team members' performance in collaboration with executives and other managers, and determining their rewards, such as annual bonuses. . Experienced in nurturing team members through effective coaching and mentoring support. . Experienced in setting team priorities or project direction based on customer feedback and/or marketing data. . Experienced in writing tech blogs for public audiences or conducting public speeches to share insights and expertise . . In addition to the above, we expect successful candidates to meet the following qualifications:. . Experienced in managing an engineering team of more than five members. . Fluent in coding with either C#, C++, Java or Rust. . Business level English. . . Passion to create a psychologically safe environment.. . Communication skill to clearly convey your idea to others.. . Preferred qualifications. Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.. . Ability to understand both the customer's and engineer's point of view.. . Fluency in Japanese. . Company Location: Japan.