Salary Range

Tokyo 21,739,000 - 31,521,000 JPY per year

Your Job

We are looking for strong Technical Fellows to help shape the future of our engineering organization. You will be able to work from anywhere in Japan.

The Job Seeker organization within Indeed is responsible for one of Indeed’s core businesses. Our mission is to “Build engineering systems to understand all workers, understand all jobs, deliver the best jobs to job seekers, and help job seekers get closer to being hired.” 

As a thought leader at Indeed you will have numerous opportunities to shape how we evolve our products to better match job seekers with jobs. Your technical leadership will guide the future of job search and help millions of job seekers find better jobs. You will have the opportunity to influence engineering direction across a broad set of areas including search, ranking and relevance, data platform and profile, and job applications.

If you are an engineer who's passionate about building innovative products that scale to tens of millions of pageviews a day and to help people find jobs globally, we are looking for you.

Who You Are

You're someone who wants to see the impact of your work making a difference every day. You understand how to use data to make decisions. You are someone who finds passion in the craft, someone constantly seeking improvement and a better way to solve tough problems. You have a passion for producing the highest quality code as well as leading others to do the same.

You are someone who either has built or is passionate about building scalable, reliable systems that span multiple data centers as well as AWS and handle millions of requests every day.

Responsibilities

• Architect and plan solutions across the Indeed platform spanning multiple teams and organizations. 
• Partner with senior leadership to develop long term technical vision and strategy. 
• Design new software systems and enhancements to existing systems to support substantial new software features and products.
• Work with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, Test & Software Engineers, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and to decompose large requests into smaller ones that can be executed sequentially or in parallel.
• Provide sound technical guidance, ensure product quality, and help set the technical direction for the team.
• Research, experiment, and develop new innovations as well as product and platform improvements that improve jobseeker experiences.
• Contribute to the product roadmap, technology, and vision while creating a culture of quality and operational excellence on the team.
• Demonstrate strong technical leadership and leverage your years of hands-on technical engineering experience to hold the organization to a high standard of technical excellence.
• Share expertise on products and technologies by mentoring other engineers and by providing insightful feedback in code reviews for changes made by other engineers.
• Investigate and resolve difficult problems and fix complex bugs; accept escalations of complex issues.
• Assist other engineers in designing solutions, prioritizing work items, estimating urgency and business impact, and balancing short-term and long-term results.
• Solve deep as well as broad technical problems.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience with large-scale Internet software development
• 5+ years of experience working in an individual contributor leadership role 
• Experience influencing a geographically-distributed global software engineering organization comprising hundreds of teams
• Experience leading through influence and delivering predictable results in complex organizations
• Experience with cloud architectures, hybrid cloud-metal architectures, and AWS native services
• Experience with service-oriented, data-centric, event-driven, and high-performance distributed system architectures
• BS in computer science , other technical fields or equivalent. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale consumer Internet systems, including large-scale experimentation
• Experience with scaled machine learning, including data and feature engineering
• Familiarity with data-driven product development

Who We Are

We are a rapidly growing and highly-capable Engineering organization building the most popular job site on the planet. With engineering hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Tokyo, Singapore, Hyderabad, Dublin, Aberdeen and Vancouver, we are improving people's lives all around the world, one job search at a time.

Our Mission

As the world’s number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We're looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.

(*comScore Total Visits, September 2021)

Salary Range Disclaimer

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Indeed salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), an open Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits.

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement

Indeed is deeply committed to creating a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.
 
Indeed is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please contact Talent Attraction Help at +81 3 4563 2563, or by email at [email protected] at least one week in advance of your interview.

Our Policies and Benefits

View Indeed's Applicant Privacy and Accessibility Policies - https://www.indeed.com/legal/indeed-jobs  

Learn about our global employee perks, programs and benefits - https://benefits.indeed.jobs/ 

Salary and compensation

Benefits

🚑 Medical insurance

🏖 Unlimited vacation

🏖 Paid time off