Lead Software Engineer

Team lead (manager) position of a software engineering team in a highly-growing startup, developing a document IDE for non-engineers.

About BoostDraft

BoostDraft is a software engineering company that develops IDE for documents. It was founded by MIT and Stanford grad students, developing an assisted document editor for documents. It is a new document editor that employs error checking, reference checking and auto-completion using both rule-based approach and NLP, like what coding editors/IDE (e.g. VSCode, Pycharm) do.

Please find more information here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KT1SDEOSq4gKSfs-JK0jc4QXdMACAvx61RKyHdPJoJM/edit#slide=id.g269b01abee2_0_0

Background & Traction

We are currently focusing on Lawyers who draft relatively standardized but long documents, such as contracts. With only one year after our product launch, we already have more than 7,500 active paid users. We have several long-term, large-scale contracts with famed enterprises and law firms. As a result, we have been highly profitable from Day 1 and experienced exponential growth without outside funding at all.

BoostDraft was accepted by prestigious accelerator program, MassChallenge (Top 30 US accelerator), StartX (Stanford Accelerator, 7% acceptance rate), MIT Sandbox (Accelerator of Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Join our engineering-first team

At BoostDraft, we prioritize quality over quantity. As an engineering-first company. Around 70% of our team members are software engineers with extensive experiences from companies such as Microsoft, IBM, HTC, Yahoo!, and R&D in NTT. Our CEO, Yohei, who has proven experience in both Software Engineering and Business management, and has built an organization that values and empowers software engineers.

Technical challenges we solve

• Performance improvement using both partial analysis and full analysis
• Synchronization between user input and on-memory text
• Cache efficiency to increase highlight performance t during/after user input
• Security preserving Natural Language Processing, such as Federated Learning
  
  

What're Your Challenges


Responsibilities of lead software engineer includes:

• Being accountable for technical decisions that your team makes, by either making the decision by yourself or reviewing and approving the decisions made by your team members
• Driving your team and project to maximize the outcome of the team in a timely manner under a very dynamic and agile environment.
• Growing your team members by giving them incrementally more challenging assignments and ongoing coaching
• Create a psychologically safe environment across the company beyond your local team
  
  

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Requirements


minimum qualifications

• Experience to manage engineering teams of 5 or more people
• Fluent in coding with either C#, C++, Java or Rust
• Believe in importance of writing clean, efficient code
• Business level English
• Proactive to propose ideas for improvements even if it is out of your immediate responsibility
• Passion to create a psychologically safe environment
• Communication skill to clearly convey your idea to others
• Understanding and appreciation for diversity.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience with Github
• Understand the concept of CI/CD
• Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
• Ability to understand both of customer's and engineer's point of view.
  
  

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Benefits


Visa and Relocation

Our teams are working fully remotely, and we are expanding our global presence. While our headquarters are currently in Japan, relocation to Japan is not mandatory. If you wish to relocate, we are happy to help you obtain a visa.

Working Arrangement

• Fully remote
  
  

For employees residing near Tokyo, there may be opportunities to work in person several times a month

• Flexible working time
• Flexible time: 6:00 am - 11:30 am / 3:00 pm - 10:00 pm
• Core time: 11:30 am - 3:00 pm
• Virtual Office
• You'll have the ability to craft a character within a virtual office environment and engage with fellow colleagues through interactive experiences
  
  

Others

Home, or any other place equivalent to home

There is a possibility of commuting to a location designated by the company due to business reasons

5-day workweek(Saturday, Sunday, Public Holidays / End of Year and New Year holidays (set by company) / others set by company)

Full-time(Fixed overtime pay included)

permanent employment

6 months

Yes