Senior Bilingual Software Engineer (English/Japanese) – West Coast (U.S.)

Overview

We are seeking a highly capable Senior Bilingual Software Engineer to serve as the connective layer between our Forward-Deployed U.S. teams and our Platform Core Engineering team in Japan.

This role reports directly to the CTO, reflecting its strategic importance in aligning product direction, platform evolution, and field execution.

This role is not about language translation. In an AI-enabled environment, its core responsibility is context alignment and leverage maximization—ensuring both teams operate with a shared understanding of priorities, constraints, urgency, and intent.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary interface between Forward-Deployed U.S. teams and the Platform Core team in Japan, driving deep, bidirectional context alignment
• Continuously synthesize and communicate what is happening on the ground—including priorities, urgency, constraints, and team sentiment (“temperature”)
• Translate not just requirements, but intent, trade-offs, and decision rationale across both sides
• Influence platform roadmap and product strategy by ensuring decisions are grounded in real-world usage, high-impact opportunities, and evolving field needs
• Ensure the Platform Core team is working on the highest-value problems, with clear prioritization informed by field context
• Ensure Forward-Deployed teams fully leverage the platform, including understanding its capabilities, constraints, and intended design patterns
• Drive cross-regional program execution, including:
• Defining and maintaining clear priorities, milestones, and success criteria across teams
• Managing dependencies, risks, and trade-offs between Forward-Deployed and Platform Core workstreams
• Establishing and enforcing execution cadence (planning, check-ins, reviews) across time zones
• Ensuring accountability and follow-through on key initiatives
• Facilitate technical discussions, design reviews, and prioritization decisions across regions
• Improve internal systems for global collaboration, including documentation, communication cadence, and decision-making frameworks

What Success Looks Like

• The Platform Core team consistently prioritizes high-impact work aligned with real field needs
• Forward-Deployed teams maximize leverage from the platform, minimizing unnecessary custom work
• Reduced rework and friction caused by misalignment in priorities, assumptions, or timing
• Clear and shared understanding of technical trade-offs and decision rationale across both teams
• Faster feedback loops between field execution and platform evolution