Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tailor is seeking a highly capable Senior Bilingual Software Engineer to serve as the connective layer between their Forward-Deployed U.S. teams and the Platform Core Engineering team in Japan. This role is crucial for ensuring both teams operate with a shared understanding of priorities, constraints, urgency, and intent, while focusing on high-impact problems and maximizing platform value.
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
Skills
- Near-native proficiency in both English and Japanese, capable of conveying nuanced context such as priorities, urgency, assumptions, and technical trade-offs
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with strong exposure to system design and real-world implementation
- 4+ years of prior experience operating as a Software Engineer within a U.S.-based organization, where English was the primary language for technical discussions, design reviews, and deliverables, both orally and in writing
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture (APIs, backend systems, data models)
- Proven ability to operate across product, engineering, and implementation contexts
- Experience working with distributed or cross-border teams
- Strong communication skills with the ability to convey nuanced context, not just information
- Based on the U.S. West Coast (required)
- Hybrid or remote-friendly
- Open to working regular hours of 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM PT to maintain meaningful daily overlap with the Japan-based Platform Core team (required)
- Willingness to travel (~15%), primarily to strengthen cross-regional collaboration and alignment
- Experience in platform engineering or building extensible systems
- Familiarity with ERP, supply chain systems, or complex business applications
- Experience with SaaS integrations or composable/headless architectures
- Background in solution architecture or technical program management
- Experience in a startup or high-growth environment
- Experience or familiarity with modern systems programming languages (e.g., Go, Rust) and/or TypeScript, aligning with the Platform Core team's current or evolving technology stack
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