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Back-End Engineer

Work with startup businesses to provide development services for digital products.

Salary

3,200,000+ JPY / Yr. (Estimate Only)

Location

Tokyo

Engineers will be responsible for a new service, which provides support to "partners with ideas" (clients), from service design to technology selection to development. In addition, engineers will work on the design and development of back-end systems, proofs of concept for major corporations, as well as participate in from-scratch project planning stages.

What is the new service?
Since establishment, this company has led over 300 startups and products to success. The company wants to widely share that knowledge, data, and professional startup experience–not only with a limited number of people. The new service is a program enhanced by this company's unique assets, aimed at early-stage startup ventures.

Responsibilities:
Prototyping new services to deliver new value
・Selection of services, technologies, and tools to be used
・Purpose-tailored system design through team collaboration
・Agile back-end development
・Service design from an engineer's perspective

Example projects:
・Development of appropriate fertility treatment support services based on data (Rails)
・Development of a voice call system backend enabling calls for over 100 users (Python)
・Development of a sake (i.e., Japanese rice wine) recommendation service based on data and user attributes (Rails)

Full-time employees at this company are able to work remotely, or according to a flex-time schedule to cater to their personal needs and circumstances. The company values the variety of individual working styles, and encourages employees to lean into their strengths and their respective work styles.
Engineers will be responsible for the new service, which provides support to "partners with ideas" (clients), from service design to technology selection to development. In addition, engineers will work on the design and development of back-end systems, proofs of concept for major corporations, as well as participate in from-scratch project planning stages.

・You're excited to make products making full use of innovative technologies
・You have a strong orientation toward both making strong products and making clients happy
・You love engineering
・You can face business, services and products with a serious attitude
・You can empathize with the company's thoughts and vision
・You want to try new technologies

Must
・Japanese: Business-level (N2) or higher
・Experience with mobile/web application back-end development
(Languages used)
Go, Scala, Ruby, PHP, Java, C#, C++, Python, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin

Ideal
・Can build back-end systems individually
・Can prioritize performance while designing data storage systems

TBD upon offer.

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