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://speakerdeck.com/boostdraft

Background & Traction

We are currently focusing on Lawyers who draft relatively standardized but long documents, such as contracts. With only four years after our product launch, we already have more than 10,000 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 50-60% of our team members are software engineers with extensive experiences from companies such as Microsoft, IBM, HTC, Yahoo!, and R&D in NTT. Our founder, Yohei, who has proven experience in both Software Engineering and Business management, 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 during/after user input
• Security preserving Natural Language Processing, such as Federated Learning

What’re your challenges

Responsibilities of Engineering Manager include:

• 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.
• Creating a psychologically safe environment across the company beyond your local team.

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

【FW】 .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