Engineering Manager

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 three years after our product launch, we already have more than 8,000 active paid users. We have several long-term, large-scale contracts with famed enterprises and law firms. As a result, we achieved significant success, including profitability and exponential growth, all without relying on external funding for nearly four years.

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 Engineering Manager include :

【Languages】 C#,（partially）Rust, Python

【FW】 Material Design (UI), .NET Framework 4.8, .NET 8.0

【DB】 SQLite, Amazon RDS

【Log Analysis】 AWS CloudWatch, Elasticsearch + Kibana, BigQuery

【CI / CD】 GitHub, GitHub Actions（Self-hosted runner (Windows)）, Azure DevOps

Japanese Articles :

Tech Blog (Japanese) :

https : / / zenn.dev / p / boostdraft

Culture Blog (Japanese) :

https : / / note.com / boostdraft

Ensuring a Fair and Secure Recruitment Process :

In recent years, there has been a growing number of applications submitted with fake or AI-generated profiles, including fabricated work history or impersonated identities. At BoostDraft, we are committed to providing a fair and secure hiring process for all candidates and have implemented the following measures :

These measures are applied equally to all candidates to ensure a trustworthy and fair hiring environment. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

If you have any concerns or questions regarding these measures, please feel free to contact our recruiting team.

Requirements

At least three of the followings :

In addition to the above, we expect successful candidates to meet the following qualifications :

Preferred qualifications

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

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

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

Additional Details to Follow During Hiring Process