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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.
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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.
主にC#を用いて支援機能付きドキュメントエディタの開発を行うチームのリード(マネージャ)です。製品の コンセプトは、ドキュメントのフォーマット調整やインデント調整等の付加価値の小さい作業を自動化し、文書コンテンツの作成に注力できるようにするドキュメントエディタです。Software engineerがVS Code等のIDEを利用することで、コード作成に注力し、フォーマッティング等を自動化しているところから着想を得ています。
【事業内容】
弊社はVS CodeやIntelli J等のIDEのコンセプトを法務文書領域に適用した、支援機能付きドキュメントエディタの開発を行っております。
AIを使った生成ではなく、まずはIDEが実装しているようなフォーマット調整やインデント調整等を実装することで、人間が法務文書作成に注力できるようにするものです。顧客の大半は弁護士事務所および企業法務部で、大規模・中規模弁護士事務所はほぼすべて、多数の大企業に導入していただいております。そして、創設時からすぐに高い収益を上げており、外部からの資金調達を行わずに急激な成長を遂げました。
特にエンジニアリングファーストの企業として、量よりも質を優先しています。弊社チームメンバーの約70%は、Microsoft、IBM、HTC、Yahoo!などの企業やNTTの研究開発での豊富な経験を持つソフトウェアエンジニアです。
CEO藤井自身も、優秀なソフトウェアエンジニアであり、加えて経営管理においても豊かな経験を有しているため、それを基にソフトウェアエンジニアを評価し、価値を高める組織を構築を実現しています。
権威のあるアクセラレータープログラムである、MassChallenge (米国トップ30アクセラレータ)、StartX (スタンフォードアクセラレータ、採択率7%)、MIT Sandbox (マサチューセッツ工科大学アクセラレータ)に受け入れられてきた実績があります。
【業務内容】
リードソフトウェアエンジニアの主な責任範囲は以下の通りです:
- チーム内の技術的な方針決定。ご自身で方針を提案していただくケース、チームメンバーの提案をレビュー・承認する形でその方針に最終的な責任を負うケースの両方を含みます。
- 日々発生する状況変化に対応しながら、与えられた期日までに成果を最大化できるようチーム及びプロジェクトを運営する。
- 段階的により大きな課題を与えたり継続的なコーチングを実践することでチームメンバーを成長させる。
- チーム内外の垣根を越えて、全社的に心理的安全性の高い環境を構築する。
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.
【必要条件】
- 5人以上のエンジニアリングチームのマネージャ経験
- C#あるいはC++、Rust、Javaによる開発経験
- 簡潔で読みやすく・効率の良いコードを重視する姿勢
- ビジネスレベルの英語
- 担当範囲内外の改善点を積極的に提案する力
- 心理的安全性の高い環境を作る力
- 自身の考えを簡潔に伝えるコミュニケーション力
- 多様性に対する理解
【歓迎条件】
- Githubを使ったチームでの開発・コードレビュー経験
- CI/CDのコンセプト理解
- 情報工学科及びそれに類する分野の修士号学位
- ユーザー目線と技術目線の両方を理解するスキル
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
<Location>
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
<Holidays>
5-day workweek(Saturday, Sunday, Public Holidays / End of Year and New Year holidays (set by company) / others set by company)
<Employment Status>
Full-time(Fixed overtime pay included)
※permanent employment
<Probation Period>
6 months
<Prevention of Passive Smoking>
Yes
Additional Details to Follow During Hiring Process
What We Do
With BoostDraft, lawyers can finally review, draft, and edit complex legal documents within MS Word in an efficient, focused, consistent, and secure manner.
BoostDraft eliminates the need for endless scrolling and searching for references and definitions and provides auto-completion features to ensure you are referencing the right section or defined term. Along with its navigation, editing, and proofreading features, attorneys can now focus more time on actual legal work and waste less time on document minutiae. Through its intuitive interface and natural integration with MS Word BoostDraft provides a seamless transition to next-level legal document review and drafting