Senior Engineering Manager

Requirements:

• Shared understanding of and belief in Mercari Group's mission and values.
• 15+ years of overall experience in software development and engineering leadership.
• At least 4+ years of experience managing managers (Engineering Managers / Team Leads), in addition to direct engineering people management experience.
• Track record of building, scaling, and restructuring engineering organisations (20+ engineers across multiple teams).
• Demonstrated experience setting multi-team / multi-quarter technical and organisational strategy.
• Strong stakeholder management experience with senior leadership, Product, and cross-functional partners.
• Experience developing and operating large-scale, high-traffic consumer products.
• Strong track record of identifying, hiring, and developing engineering leadership talent.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with making strong technical judgements of a system or platform at an organisational level.
• Experience managing a multicultural, distributed, or globally dispersed engineering organisation.
• Experience hiring and building out a leadership bench (EM and tech lead hiring, interview process design, leadership branding).
• Strong experience in one or more of the following domains, at an operational/strategic level:
• Backend: Backend systems and platforms using Go or Java or any Backend Language.
• Machine Learning: Familiarity with integrating with large-scale ML systems.
• Data Engineering: Large-scale data systems /BI architecture on cloud platforms, and BI tooling (Looker, Tableau, PowerBI).
• Familiarity with databases (RDBMS/NoSQL), networks, Linux, monitoring, logging, and SLO/SLA frameworks at scale.
• Experience with microservices architecture in production at scale.
• Cloud development and platform strategy experience (preferably GCP or AWS).
• Understanding of UI/UX development practices.
• OSS contribution experience or familiarity with the OSS community.
• Prior P& L, budget ownership, or business-impact accountability for an engineering org.