■ Recruitment Background

CADDi is on a mission to "Unleash the potential of manufacturing."

Launched in 2022, "CADDi DRAWER" is a groundbreaking product that uses technologies such as machine learning to structure and link critical design data, considered vital in the manufacturing sector. This innovation transforms this data into valuable informational assets. Already, we have received significant adoption from leading domestic manufacturing companies and machining firms, growing at a pace far exceeding T2D3. In 2023, we expanded our sales efforts to international markets, including the United States, Thailand and Vietnam.

Our vision for the future is to replicate and consolidate manufacturing expertise through technology, extending beyond blueprints to achieve holistic optimization across departments and companies. We aspire to transform our customers' workstyles and cultures, ultimately driving a revolution in the entire manufacturing industry.

Over the next few years, we plan to globally deploy numerous new applications on our platform. Achieving this scale and speed of business expansion requires a foundational platform, robust infrastructure, and unparalleled reliability to support all these applications.

The CADDi Core Division is at the heart of ensuring that the products we continuously create deliver value globally, quickly and reliably. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to maximize the productivity of the development organization within the CADDi Core Division and lead its business growth.

▼ Information about CADDi:

• CADDi: Chapter Two as a Manufacturing AI Data Platform (CEO Kato's note)
• Witnessing the moment a product changes something (CPO Shirai's note)
• 【In-Depth Analysis】Manufacturing × AI: The Potential. Key Player "Caddie" Unveils Its Grand Strategy (Newspicks)
• Service Website
• Company Introduction for Engineers
• Business Details

■ Responsibilities

※What is an Engineering Manager at CADDi?

• Your mission is to maximize the results of the departments and groups you oversee.

• Setting OKRs to chart the course forward and perform necessary management tasks by working backward from our desired future state.

• The role of an EM is not rigidly defined; we believe the approach to achieving results should align with each individual's strengths. For example, some excel at empowering others to drive outcomes, while others lead design and policy decisions directly on the ground. The balance between technology management, project management, product management, and people management also varies depending on each EM's assigned domain and key focus areas.

■ About the position

You will be responsible for managing platform service development within the CADDi Core Division, which oversees the common infrastructure (including goal setting for your assigned domain and various management activities to achieve those goals).

The mission of the CADDi Core Division is to develop and expand platform services that bear responsibility for solving common technical challenges across applications, thereby driving the overall business growth of CADDi through the power of its technological foundation.

※The following tasks are not handled by a single manager at once; responsibilities are divided based on assigned areas, current priorities, and individual strengths and preferences.

• Promoting Platform Servitization: Planning, development, and operational policy management for foundational services independent of business logic
• Advancing Platform Engineering: Developing and providing platforms and tools to enhance company-wide developer experience (DX)
• Close collaboration with EMs and Product Managers in application development organizations
• People Management for Development Teams: Recruitment, Development, Evaluation, Organizational Design, etc.
• Formulation and Execution of Technical Strategy: Selecting appropriate technologies and optimizing infrastructure costs based on business phase and ROI

※Examples of areas of responsibility

• File Platform: Responsible for unifying file upload and download functionality required by multiple applications.
• Workflow Engine: Responsible for providing the execution foundation to perform large-scale batch processing in a defined sequence.
• Additionally, develops and provides foundational services to resolve technical challenges within applications.
• If your interests or strengths lie closer to the application layer, you may also be assigned to manage the Reliability domain (which includes SRE, QA, and Product Security) within the application development organization.

Around 30% of our development team members come from various international backgrounds, including Asia, Europe, and North America. To build a thriving multicultural environment, some teams communicate primarily in English, and critical meetings are held bilingually in both Japanese and English.

As a manager, you'll be responsible for leading diverse, multinational teams. Depending on your experience and organizational needs, you may manage one or multiple teams. The exact team(s) you'll oversee will be decided based on your expertise and preferences discussed during interviews and will be presented during the offer stage.

※Based on your experience and preferences, you will be expected to manage either a single team or multiple teams immediately upon joining.

※Alternatively, you may start by actively contributing hands-on for several months to deepen your technical understanding, build relationships with stakeholders, and gradually transition into management duties.

※Regarding your initial responsibilities:

We will propose your assigned area during the offer discussion, referencing the preferences and strengths discussed during the casual meeting and interviews.

■ About development organization

Our team includes top-tier technical leaders in Japan, such as CTO Kobashi, ex-Apple US Headquarters, and VPoE Fujikura, former CTO of Sansan.

※Examples of team members you'll be working with

• CTO Aki

Building for the future in 2025

The pursuit of Excellence

• VPoE Fujikura

Management philosophy for building a strong development organization Video

■ The appeal of this position and the experience you'll gain

• Drive business growth with technology, leveraging unparalleled impact.

The unique thrill of this role lies in directly impacting business growth by driving productivity across multiple products and a developer team set to expand to hundreds. The enhanced developer experience and reliability you lead will accelerate CADDi's overall growth.

• Challenge yourself with a modern platform tightly integrated with the business

To meet the demands of a rapidly growing global business, you'll constantly pursue a modern, scalable tech stack. Gain rare experience introducing and practicing world-class practices like Platform Engineering, SRE, and FinOps while directly feeling the business impact.

• Diverse Business Phases and Flexible Career Paths

To launch numerous upcoming products, you'll tackle technical challenges across all phases—from building flexible foundations supporting "0→1" launches to enhancing reliability for scaling "10→100". While deepening expertise in foundational domains, you can also envision a future career leading larger organizations.

• Challenge in a Global Development Structure

As our business globalizes, our development organization is diversifying. You'll gain dynamic experience building and operating infrastructure across multiple regions, and creating a world-class platform alongside developers from around the globe.

■ Requirements

• Experience demonstrating leadership as a manager in an engineering organization developing in-house products, directly contributing to business outcomes.
• Experience in people management within an engineering organization (recruitment, evaluation, development, organizational design, etc.).
• Experience in design, build, and operations experience as a platform engineer, backend engineer, or cloud infrastructure engineer.
• Fluent business communication skills in Japanese. (Ability to conduct daily work entirely in Japanese, including written communication and meetings.)
• Business-level English proficiency

■ Nice to haves

• Experience developing large-scale file upload/download functionality
• Experience developing execution platforms for large-scale batch processing
• Experience designing and operating large-scale web services (high traffic, high availability)
• Experience building and operating application platforms in Kubernetes environments
• Experience designing and building architectures on public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience driving Platform Engineering and enhancing developer experience
• Experience within rapidly scaling businesses and development organizations
• Experience managing teams composed of multinational members.
• Management experience in rapidly growing organizations or startups.

■ We want to work with individuals who have this kind of mindset.

• Individuals who understand our mission "Unleash the potential of manufacturing".
• Individuals who can confront essential challenges and take action with a sense of ownership to resolve them.
• Individuals who can perform their duties with a positive attitude and constructive discussions in fast-changing and highly uncertain situations.
• Individuals who can communicate and discuss with a respectful attitude, considering the context and resolution of others.

■ Salary Package

• Initial annual salary is estimated to be in the range of 10 million to 14 million yen.
• Salary reviews will be conducted twice a year.
• The annual salary will be divided into 12 equal monthly payments.
• Stock option program available.