Lead Software Engineer - Backend AI Agents

Salary: 700 - 1400 百万円

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English: Fluent
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AI 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

  1. Hybrid Work

    • Combination of office and remote work. In-office days recommended by role. Collaboration via Zoom, Google Meet, Gather.
  2. Flex Work

    • Customizable working hours. Client-facing teams arrange schedules around meetings as needed.
  3. Global Environment

    • Team members from 20+ countries, fostering diverse perspectives and cross-cultural collaboration in English and Japanese.

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