Tech Lead, Backend-Focused Full-Stack-PK

 

Caddi - Tech Lead, Backend-Focused Full-Stack

(Global Product Team)

 

Job Description

Recruitment Background

At CADDi, our mission is to unleash the potential of manufacturing. To make this

happen, we are developing and delivering an AI-powered data platform for the

industry. We are delivering value not only to customers in Japan, but also across the

US and ASEAN countries, and we are growing at a pace far exceeding the T2D3

benchmark. We believe we have what it takes to become one of the true global

champion companies. To sustain this rapid growth and continue delivering value to

an even greater number of customers worldwide, we are looking for talented

individuals to join us in building the very core of our business—our product. In

addition, our engineering organization is entering an exciting new phase, where we

are opening the doors not only to Japanese-speaking professionals, but also to global

talent from around the world. We’re seeking individuals with strong technical

expertise and project management capabilities, as well as the leadership to help

shape our engineering team as we move into this exciting new stage of growth.

These materials are a great place to start if you want to understand who we are and

what we do.

• Service Website

• Pursuit of Excellence - CTO Blog

About the Incubation Team

Mission

• Our Incubation team is more than just a feature development team. Our mission

consists of three pillars: 1.Create more products：Continuously launch new

products that solve customer problems. 2.Create more strong teams：Build strong

development teams capable of driving product growth. 3.Create structured ways to

accelerate these activities：Establish repeatable systems to speed up our creation

process.

Why you will love it here!

• Deep Involvement in Product Development

o End-to-end ownership from planning to development and operation.

 

 

o Close collaboration with Designers, PdMs, and Customer Success.

o A variety of technical tasks across Frontend, Backend, DevOps, Infra, and

QA.

o Clear, measurable goals and outcomes.

o All members can contribute to product improvements.

o Directly solve customer pain points and feel the business impact.

• A Diverse and Specialized Team

o You'll work in a diverse environment with members from various

professional backgrounds.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of a new application built on top of our core

platform, CADDi Drawer, for example, the recently released CADDi Quote. This

project is run like an -independent startup within CADDi, aiming to create a

product that could exceed T2D3-level growth on its own. You’ll be part of a fast-

moving, entrepreneurial team building entirely new value from zero.

• Lead the end-to-end development of the application from scratch, including

technology selection, domain modeling, and overall architecture design.

• Drive cross-functional collaboration, working with product managers, designers, and

engineers across multiple teams to ensure successful delivery.

• Build, mentor and scale a high-performing, globally-oriented engineering team,

fostering a strong engineering culture that primarily operates in English.

Required Qualifications

• 9+ years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and delivering web

applications on cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, and Azure.

• Proven leadership in managing teams of 30+ engineers to deliver high-quality,

scalable web applications through strong technical excellence and proactive

guidance in architecture, implementation, and delivery.

• Product and Technical Experience

o Experience owning system architecture design initiatives and technical

strategy, including making long-term architectural decisions and aligning

technical direction with product and business goals.

o Experience leading the end-to-end delivery of B2B SaaS platforms, from

requirement definition and design to implementation, delivery, and

continuous improvement, ensuring enterprise-level performance, reliability,

and security.

o Experience leading the end-to-end development of B2C applications,

 

 

focusing on usability, performance, and customer engagement throughout

the entire product lifecycle.

o Lead full product lifecycles, including requirement gathering, design,

roadmap planning, iterative development, and post-launch improvements.

• Fluent in English, able to understand complex, context-heavy discussions and

collaborate effectively with a multicultural English speaking team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Development experience in a Docker-native infrastructure environment - strongly

preferred

• Backend development and operation experience for web applications using statically

typed languages - strongly preferred

• Experience selecting programming languages, frameworks, and libraries by

evaluating pros and cons from both technical and business perspectives

• Experience developing services that include asynchronous jobs, particularly with

designing and building the job infrastructure from scratch.

• Proven ability to drive solutions to development productivity challenges through

technical leadership, including: establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

(especially around Docker), defining and supporting coding standards

• Full Stack Development experience (ideally with React.js).

• Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in complex business

domains

• Designed, developed, and maintained microservices architecture in a distributed

environment

• Built secure web applications with a strong awareness of modern security best

practices

• Successfully led and completed projects involving multiple stakeholders.

Portrait of a Person

We want to work with engineers who,

• Understand our mission "Unleash the potential of manufacturing".

• Can confront essential challenges and take action with a sense of ownership to

resolve them.

• Can perform their duties with a positive attitude and constructive discussions in

fast-changing and highly uncertain situations.

• Can communicate and discuss with a respectful attitude, considering the context and

resolution of others.

• Are not just “coders” but proactive leaders!

 

 

Development Environment

• Development Environment

• Frontend:TypeScript,React,Next.js

• Backend:TypeScript,Rust(axum),Node.js(Express,Fastify,NestJS)

• Infrastructure: Docker, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Istio, Cloudflare

• Event Bus：Cloud Pub/Sub

• DevOps：GitHub,GitHub

Actions,ArgoCD,Kustomize,Helm,Terraform,Datadog,MixPanel,Sentry

• Data:CloudSQL(PostgreSQL),AlloyDB,BigQuery,dbt,trocco

• API:GraphQL,REST,gRPC

• Authentication:Auth0

• Other tools:GitHub Copilot,Figma,Storybook

• Communication:Slack,Discord,JIRA,Miro,Confluence

 

Interview Process

• Application Review

• Coding Assignment and Technical Writing Sample

• 1st Round Interview (Hiring Manager/ Engineer)

• 2nd Round Interview (Engineering Manager)

• Final Round Interview (CTO/VPoE) *Please note that additional interviews or

discussions may be proposed depending on the situation.

 

Job Description

Work Environment

• Location: Tokyo (We offer extensive relocation support, so please don’t hesitate to

apply even if you’re currently living outside Japan!)

• Workplace: Hybrid

o To encourage team interaction, we strongly recommend coming into the

office once a week.

o In-person meetings, such as kickoffs and retrospectives, are held one to two

times per quarter usually in Tokyo.

o Several team members also live outside the Greater Tokyo Area, including in

the Chubu, Kansai, and Kyushu regions.

• Working hours: Flextime schedule with a core time of 11:00–16:00. Includes a 1-

hour break.

Office

 

 

6th Floor, D'sVARIE Asakusa Building, 4-2-2 Asakusabashi, Taito-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

※2min walk from Asakusa-Bashi station on JR/Toei Asakusa Line

Emplyment type

Full-time* *3-month probationary period (no changes in salary or benefits during

this period)

Holidays & Time Off

• Annual paid leave (available after 6 months of employment), plus 3 days of special

paid leave upon joining

• Summer vacation (3 days, can be taken at your discretion between July and

December)

• Year-end and New Year's holidays (6 days)

• Refreshment leave (5 consecutive days every 5 years of service)

• Nursing and caregiving leave (available after the probationary period)(up to 4 days

per year – includes care for pets)

• Bereavement and celebratory leave

Compensation and Benefits

Team-Building Support

• Club activity support fund: 1,500 yen per member, per activity

• Teaming offsite cost assistance: 5,000 yen per person, available once per quarter

• Meal allowance for internal team interactions: 2,000 yen per person, available once

per month

• Meal allowance for cross-team interactions: 3,000 yen per person, available once per

month

Learning & Development

• Server cost assistance: Up to 10,000 yen per month (available to engineers)

• Book purchase support: Reimbursement available for work-related books

• External training support: Reimbursement for fees of relevant courses and programs

Family & Life Support

• Marriage gift: 50,000 yen; Childbirth gift: 100,000 yen

• Relocation assistance: Support available for job-related moves

• Childcare allowance: 15,000 yen per month for each dependent under the age of 18

Others

• Transportation expenses: Reimbursement based on actual commuting costs

• Comprehensive social insurance: Includes employment, workers’ accident, health,

and welfare pension insurance

• Company-provided PCs

 

 

• Medical checkups and gynecological exams: Fully covered by the company

• Quarterly company-wide recognition program