Are you interested in building revolutionary fintech products and mentoring teams? 
Keep reading below and send us your expression of interest today!
**You will need to relocate to Japan

 

 

■ Job Title

Senior Software Engineer

 

■ Company Overview

Our client is the leading fintech company in Japan and right now they are rapidly expanding their product line up and platform capabilities! This role will work with one of their newest products, building new features and services of unparalleled excellence for their expanding customer base. 
If you are interested to be part of a team building services not previously available to users in the market, or creatively revolutionising and modernising outdated services, then this could be the opportunity for you! If you are passionate about building fantastic products and working with a like-minded global team at a very fast pace, then we would like to talk to you!
Please read on for further details and send us your expression of interest to learn more!

 

We are looking for senior backend engineers to build (or rebuild!), fantastic services with a focus on scalability and maintainability. 
Our client is revolutionizing the credit card industry, making payments easier than ever, from two different angles:
• Bring the credit card experience to the next level: there are many functionalities in the pipe to improve the product, not to mention the integration into the larger ecosystem.
• (Re-)architect the systems landscape: reassess and fix the “behind-the-scenes” to power an amazing user experience. It is bundled with difficult design challenges to solve to get it right.
 
You need to be versatile and enthusiastic to take on new challenges in order to stay at the forefront, and strive for continuous improvement. Additionally, you value communication, to smoothly cooperate with other teams, and inclusivity, to efficiently navigate in a multicultural environment. If this is still sounding like you, keep reading!

 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

(Upon Employment)

• Design, support the implementation and deliver large scale, and complex, systems
• Manage teams stakeholders such as product managers or frontend engineers but also other team leads or non-tech stakeholders.
• Leverage the infrastructure to solve such large scale problems.
• Acts as a gatekeeper to the team quality standard
• Triage, debug and resolve product issues or other incoming inquiries
• Mentor other team members and safeguard the team quality standards

(Scope of any potential changes)

Duties as defined by the company  

 

■ Tech Stack
The current tech stack is below, though with a solid tech culture, new technologies may be introduced as  they become available.
 
• Back-end services: 
o Main implementations are in Spring Boot, with a mix of Java 11/Spring Boot 2 and Java 17/Spring Boot 3. 
o Some legacy systems are written in Java EE.
o Testing is done with JUnit and Mockito
o Deployment relies on AWS ECS 
o CI/CD is handled by AWS CodePipeline 
• Infrastructure 
o All our services run in AWS
o Infrastructure is managed by AWS CloudFormation
o AWS CloudWatch is used for observability
• Coding environment: GitHub, IntelliJ, Gradle
• Documentation & Project management: Confluence, Miro, JIRA
• Communication: Slack, Zoom, Office 365

 

■ Experience and Qualifications

• Excellent skills in Java and Spring Boot
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases, along with distributed cache.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and object oriented programming.
• In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing.
• Experience implementing platform components such as RESTful APIs, Pub/Sub Systems, and Database Clients.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures
• Experience designing high traffic systems.
• Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 5+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development.
• English business proficiency

 

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Java EE understanding
• Domain-driven development knowledge
• Experience in a multicultural environment
• Stakeholder management is welcomed
• Japanese conversational proficiency is a plus

 

■ Other Points and Working Conditions

• This is a full-time position
• If you are not currently a resident of Japan, you must relocate to Japan, but you can live anywhere in Japan and work fully remotely if you wish
• Super flex working hours 
• Holidays: Weekends, Japanese national holidays, New Year's holidays and special company holidays
• Leave allowance: annual paid leave and other forms of paid leave
• Non-salary benefits: Japanese social insurances, Japanese 401K, language learning support, visa sponsorship, relocation support

 

■ Work Location

(Upon Employment)

Of course there are offices, but you can live anywhere in Japan you like and work fully remotely if that's your vibe!

(Scope of change)

Location as specified by the company  

 

■ Salary 

￥10,000,000 - ￥12,000,000 (Japanese Yen, per annum)
** Salary review is twice yearly, and bonuses are paid twice yearly according to both company and individual performance. **
** Please note that any potential offer is subject to candidate experience and qualifications, as evaluated in the company's comprehensive and fair interview process. **

 

■ So What are the Next Steps?

If you're interested in this role, click 'I'M INTERESTED'
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
Please note that due to the large number of applicants, only successful candidates will be contacted.

 

Details will be provided during the meeting.