Lead Software Engineer - Backend AI Agents
Salary: 700 - 1400 百万円
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English: Fluent
Sales MarkerAI Agent Technical Lead
Contract Type: Full-time Employee
Salary Range: 7,000,000 ~ 14,000,000 JPY
The Team
- Global Product & Engineering team (24+ countries)
- Backgrounds at leading tech companies (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Indeed, Mercari, LINE, Yahoo, SmartNews)
- Core values:
- Customer Obsession: Solving real problems and exceeding expectations
- Ownership: Taking end-to-end responsibility across functions
- 10x: Aiming for bold impact, moving fast, and disrupting old standards
The Role
Reporting directly to the CTO, you will play a strategic and technical leadership role in developing next-generation AI Agents. The position includes significant engagement with strategic decision-making and product direction, innovation through collaboration with stakeholders, and leading large teams delivering cutting-edge enterprise solutions.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for AI Agent development projects
- Design and select system architectures
- Provide technical support and conduct code reviews for team members (senior and junior)
- Coordinate technically with external stakeholders (Product, UX, Research, etc.)
- Evaluate cutting-edge LLM and agent technologies and formulate adoption strategies
What We're Looking For
Required
- Meaningful experience building and scaling production systems
- Passion for end-user experience, striving to delight customers
- Experience leading development teams or managing multi-member projects
- Large Language Model Integration: Experience integrating LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic) into agent workflows
- Agent Solution Design: Ability to design and build deployable AI agent solutions and best-practice templates
- Cloud Platform Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure (deploy, scale, secure AI services)
- Database Design & Optimization: Designing scalable schemas, indexing, query optimization for high-performance apps
- Understanding and practical experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Business-level English proficiency
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks (e.g. LangChain, Rasa, Restack)
- Experience with benchmarking and evaluating agent accuracy, reliability, on-brand performance
- Experience promoting projects in startups or R&D environments
- Experience with internal and external technical presentations/public speaking
Our Tech Stack
Front-end
- TypeScript, React, NextJS
- Testing: Storybook, jest, playwright
- Hosting: Amplify
- Feature flag: Unleash
Server Side / Back-End
- Infrastructure: AWS, EKS, ElasticBeanstalk
- Databases: Aurora, ElasticSearch, Redis
- Languages: Go, Typescript
- Analysis: Athena, Superset
- Monitoring: DataDog
- Others: AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, AWS API Gateway, AWS Glue, AWS S3
Why Us?
- Rapidly growing SaaS startup with strong financial growth
- Innovative new product development; opportunity to build from scratch
- Ample leadership and career development opportunities
- Hybrid work environment & fully flexible work schedules
- Global, English-speaking team
- Great benefits & perks (Resort Worx, books, weekly lunches, offsites, etc.)
Working Style
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Hybrid Work
- Combination of office and remote work. In-office days recommended by role. Collaboration via Zoom, Google Meet, Gather.
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Flex Work
- Customizable working hours. Client-facing teams arrange schedules around meetings as needed.
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Global Environment
- Team members from 20+ countries, fostering diverse perspectives and cross-cultural collaboration in English and Japanese.