Engineering Manager, Genesis

Hybrid

| Global Market for QA

Markets are changing rapidly, and there is a demand for quick software releases. Agile development has become mainstream; on a global scale, 92% of developer teams adopt agile development, 71% of which aim to release at least once a week. With such a rapid cycle, manual verification is too time-consuming, and there is an urgent need for automation. Our services can solve these critical challenges and make our clients a competitive advantage in software development. QA’s global budget is said to reach over $1 trillion. We are rapidly expanding our service reach internationally to win this vast global market.

| About Us

Autify, Inc. is a San Francisco-based startup that was founded by the first Japanese team to graduate from Alchemist Accelerator, one of the top accelerators in the US. With the mission to empower people’s creativity through technology, we have been offering an AI-powered automation platform aiming to eliminate the test phase.

Since 2019, we’ve been providing our AI-powered nocode test automation product and have grown the team to 100+. Our next move is to double down on GenAI. As we have been investing in AI and helping customers’ software quality since 2019, we know how to best utilize GenAI in software QA. With that, we have recently launched our new product, Genesis, a GenAI agent for software quality assurance.

| About This Role

Job Purpose

Genesis is a new product specializing in cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and data analytics solutions focused on the Japanese market. We are seeking an experienced engineering manager to lead our Japanese market Genesis team and oversee the development of core technologies. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to align project goals, mentor engineers, and drive innovation. If you have a strong background in software engineering and exceptional leadership skills, join us to shape the future of technology.

You can find more info here:

https://autify.jp/products/genesis

Responsibilities

Create succession strategies and recruit the team members required to fulfill the team's missions.

Share the business vision as well as the team missions with the teams

Facilitate the team’s ceremonies and remove blockers and impediments to support your team's day-to-day operations.

Provide visibility on your team and their progress, through reporting on the different metrics evaluating the team performance as well as engaging with stakeholders through refinements and demos.

Support the product team in delivering fast and high-quality business value.

Be flexible and capable of altering the team roadmap when faced with new information, communicate, and engage the team in delivering new directions.

Identify the different architectural and technical debt challenges, and plan their improvement accordingly.

Support cross-team initiatives and facilitate collaboration within the teams.

Build relationships with your reports, support their career development and motivate members in achieving the team goals.

Empower the engineers and maximize the team's productivity by setting goals, performing evaluations, and utilizing data to improve operational workflow.

Support the operations through procurement and third party management, reporting and monitoring of the released software

Required Qualifications

Over 5 years of experience designing and supporting software development, and backend implementation experience is a plus.

Ability to communicate and work in English

Until a Visa can be issued, being able to work from your own country with some overlap with Japanese business hours..

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working at a SaaS startup company

Have an understanding of QA practices, especially test automation

Have experience working with designing, developing and delivering software

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