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TELEXISTENCE

RaaS provider automating retail and logistics

Vice President of System Applications - Logistics Robotics

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience with full-stack responsibility across frontend and backend, including at least 3 years in an engineering management or leadership role managing engineers, owning hiring, and/or owning budget.
  • A track record of building and scaling engineering teams through hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers and/or managers.
  • Strong hands-on experience with C# (.NET) development and TypeScript.
  • Professional experience with cloud platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure.
  • Experience with frontend application development using web or game-engine-based user interfaces.
  • Experience in software development on Linux and Windows operating systems.
  • Experience releasing applications to production, developing as a team with Git, and developing an application from scratch with UI/UX in mind.
  • Strong knowledge of software architecture patterns such as Clean Architecture.
  • Full development, release, and maintenance lifecycle experience, taking a project from zero to production and through ongoing maintenance.
  • A creative mindset and problem-solving ability, balancing technical depth with business pragmatism.
  • Functional English and conversational Japanese.

Responsibilities

  • Build, structure, and grow the engineering organization, owning hiring, interviewing, and onboarding decisions to scale the team in line with business needs.
  • Manage, coach, and develop engineers and engineering managers; set clear OKR goals, run performance reviews, and build career paths in collaboration with HR.
  • Own final decision-making on solution architecture and technical direction across the frontend, backend, and cloud platform.
  • Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions to ensure systems are scalable, secure, and cost-efficient.
  • Own and manage the engineering budget, including headcount planning, tooling and infrastructure spend, and vendor decisions.
  • Translate business requirements and the product roadmap into engineering plans, timelines, and resourcing decisions.
  • Partner with Automation, Hardware, QA/QC, and Business teams to align product requirements, timelines, and trade-offs.
  • Represent engineering in cross-functional planning and ensure the platform roadmap supports hardware and business milestones.
  • Work with Business stakeholders to understand customer and warehouse operational needs and translate them into technical requirements.
  • Gather and analyze requirements for applications and guide software architecture decisions across frontend and backend.
  • Oversee design, implementation, and delivery of the robot management system GUI and its backend services.
  • Guide the architecture of Azure cloud-hosted services supporting robot operation and warehouse management systems.
  • Drive investment in improved UI/UX, performance, and reliability across the platform.
  • Ensure new functionality is validated with actual robots and store environments before release.
  • Develop scalable solutions that can be reused across upcoming solutions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with B2B applications.
  • Prior experience in robotics, logistics, or hardware-adjacent industries.
  • Knowledge of gRPC, MQTT, WebSocket, or similar communication protocols.
  • Experience with Blazor.
  • Experience with Unity/C# or other game-engine UI development.
  • Experience with ROS development or robotics/IoT edge devices.
  • Familiarity with additional cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.
  • Reactive Programming and Dependency Injection experience.
  • Experience integrating telemetry and monitoring systems for distributed environments.

About the Company

TELEXISTENCE

RaaS provider automating retail and logistics

TELEXISTENCE designs and operates robots that blend AI with remote control under a robotics-as-a-service model to automate labor tasks in retail and logistics. Its TX SCARA robot restocks beverages by using an AI system called Gordon to detect low stock and perform replenishment, handling up to about 1,000 bottles or cans per day with onboard NVIDIA Jetson edge AI; if the AI isn’t reliable, a human operator can take control remotely via a telepresence/VR interface. The company stands out by combining AI, remote operation, and ongoing RaaS contracts, backed by large funding and partnerships to scale mass production and expand internationally, including collaborations like Astra with Seven-Eleven Japan. TELEXISTENCE’s goal is to reduce labor shortages and boost efficiency by deploying versatile robots at scale across retail and logistics.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Series B
Total funding
$197.5M
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2017

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