Career Opportunity for a QA Manager in Japan! (Japanese proficiency is required)

■ QA Manager 

■ Company Overview

A fintech company has grown rapidly and is widely used as a payment platform by about half of smartphone users in Japan. It also offers simple, everyday investment services through a mobile app, making asset management easy and accessible. As part of a larger group, the company is rapidly improving its products and driving the adoption of cashless payments and digital financial services in Japan. It is looking for professionals who are proactive, collaborative, and passionate about creating new value.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

●QA Manager, you will be collaborating with engineers, designers and QAs, and working in an environment where you can be one of the founding members to build up a new organization within company

Highlights of the opportunity

●Be part of the team to build up a new organization and environment

●Develop skills in making business plans from a high perspective, through the high-level coordination with departments and affiliated companies to support the top management’s decision

●Leading weekly release test cycles as QAM, including test planning, test execution, test progress control, test result analyze/issue triage and reporting for QA Functional and Non-Functional tests.

●Leading Roadmap Projects, responsible for product STLC, create Test Plan, define Test Scope, track status for test progress, and ensure software quality.

●Prepare test data, tools, and environment needed for test execution

●Report found defects, track status of reported defects, and verify fixes

●Design, create and review test cases based on specifications by closely collaborating with QA Engineers

■ Experience and Qualifications

●3-5 years of QA Lead / QA Manager experience (5+ years of QA Engineer/Tester experience)

●Ability to understand and analyze technical specifications. Experience in test planning, defining necessary test scope for designing and creating test cases

●Strong knowledge of QA methodology and QA tools, such as ALM, TestRail, TestLink, QASymphony, Zephyr etc.

●Familiar with test automation process and tools, such as Appium, Selenium, UFT, Load Runner, Cucumber etc.

●Strong organizational and problem solving skills with attention to detail

●Have excellent verbal communication skills and documentation skills

●Business level in Japanese (Native Japanese speaker Or JLPT N1 equivalent)

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
●Experience in working on QA in securities & finance 

●Experience in testing mobile applications (Android and iOS)

●ISTQB or equivalent certificate

●Experience in working under a fast-paced development environment in IT/Web industry (experience of Agile development is a plus)

●Experience in developing the standardization of QA process and methodology, and/or proposing improvement in QA processes

●Experience in proposing and introducing new QA tools in the test process

●Experience in carrying out projects by collaborating with other teams and external vendor partners

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Full remote work environment within Japan

● Work with International team members

● Native Japanese speaker Or JLPT N1 equivalent

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Frontend Engineer in Japan! 

■ Frontend Engineer 

■ Company Overview

A leading FinTech organization, cashless payments in Japan, offering innovative and convenient credit services integrated with a major digital payment platform.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

●Work with Product Managers, Designers and various tech teams to implement features.

●Contribute to the team by sharing knowledge, participating in code reviews, and providing feedback to uphold and ensure best practices.

●Support architecture improvements

●Triage, debug, and resolve product issues.

■ Experience and Qualifications

●Frontend web application:

-Main implementation is in Nuxt 3 (Vue.js 3, TypeScript)

-Storybook is used for component visualization and UI testing

-Form validation is handled by Vee-validate

-Google Analytics is used for product reporting

-Web application are deployed on AWS ECS, in a Docker container

●Coding environment: GitHub, Visual Code

●Documentation & Project management: Confluence, Miro, JIRA

●At least 3 years of industry experience developing secure web frontend applications in JavaScript and/or TypeScript.

●At least 1 year of industry experience with VueJS (preferred), or React.

●Software engineering best practices and computer science knowledge.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
●Experience with frontend performance monitoring and optimization.

●Experience with designing server side RESTful APIs.

●Experience with web hosting infrastructure such as CDNs.

●Knowledge in web components and/or island architecture.

●Experience in a multicultural environment

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Full remote work environment within Japan

● Work with International team members

● No Japanese proficiency is needed

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Senior Backend Engineer in Japan! 

■ Senior Backend Engineer 

■ Company Overview

A leading FinTech organization, cashless payments in Japan, offering innovative and convenient credit services integrated with a major digital payment platform.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

●We are looking for senior backend engineers to build, or rebuild, rock solid services with a laser focus on scalability and maintainability.

●(Re-)architect our systems landscape: we want to reassess and fix the behind-the-scenes to power a top-notch user experience. It is bundled with difficult design challenges to solve: we simply want to get it right.

●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 saveguard the team quality standards

■ Experience and Qualifications

●5+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development.

●Experience in any OOP based language e.g Kotlin, Java, C#, Scala etc.

●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.

Back-end services:

Main implementations are in Spring Boot, with a mix of Java 11/Spring Boot 2 and Java

17/Spring Boot 3.

Some legacy systems are written in Java EE.

Testing is done with JUnit and Mockito

Deployment relies on AWS ECS

CI/CD is handled by AWS CodePipeline

Infrastructure

All our services run in AWS

Infrastructure is managed by AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudWatch is used for observability

Coding environment: GitHub, IntelliJ, Gradle

Documentation & Project management: Confluence, Miro, JIRA

Communication: Slack, Zoom, Office 365

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
●Experience with Java/Spring Boot framework

●Experience with implementing platform components such as RESTful APIs, Pub/Sub Systems,

●Database Clients.

●Experience in system design for high traffic application with scalability in mind

●Experience with microservices & event-driven architecture

●Experience gRPC communication design and implementation

●Experience in a multicultural environment

●Japanese conversational proficiency is a plus

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Full remote work environment within Japan

● Work with International team members

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer in Japan! (English speaking position)

■ Senior Software Engineer 

■ Company Overview

We are developing and delivering an AI-powered data platform for the industry. We are delivering value not only to customers in Japan, but also across the US and ASEAN countries, and we are growing at a pace far exceeding the benchmark. 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

●Leading architectural design

●Conducting technical evaluations, particularly in areas such as logging, monitoring, and user event tracking Developing services involving jobs, especially building the job infrastructure independently

● Planning development schedules, defining requirements, creating timelines, and managing progress

●Experience in backend development and operation of web applications

●Development experience in Docker-native infrastructure environments, experience leading improvements in development processes based on Scrum or Agile methodologies.

●Experience in designing and developing large-scale systems spanning multiple teams

●Development experience based on domain-driven design

●Development experience with strongly statically typed or functional programming languages such as Rust or Scala

●Experience in designing, developing, and operating microservices

■ Experience and Qualifications

●Making decisions on programming languages, frameworks, and libraries by comparing their pros and cons from both technical and business perspectives, incorporating personal experience

●Leading and successfully completing projects involving multiple stakeholders

●Planning development schedules, defining requirements, creating timelines, and managing progress

●Experience in backend development and operation of web applications using statically typed languages 

●Development experience in Docker-native infrastructure environments 

●Experience leading improvements in development processes based on Scrum or Agile methodologies

Skill Sets

●Frontend:TypeScript,React,Next.js

●Backend:Rust(axum),TypeScript,Node.js(Express,Fastify,NestJS)

●Algorithm:Rust,Python,OpenCV,PyTorch,TorchServe,Elasticsearch,Vertex AI

●Infrastructure:Google Cloud,Google Kubernetes Engine,Anthos Service Mesh,Istio,Cloudflare,Argo Workflows

●Event Bus:Cloud Pub/Sub

●DevOps:GitHub,GitHub

●Data:CloudSQL(PostgreSQL),AlloyDB,BigQuery,dbt,trocco

●API:GraphQL,REST,gRPC

●Authentication:Auth0

●Other tools:GitHub Copilot,Figma,Storybook

●Communication:Slack,Discord,JIRA,Miro,Confluence

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
●Individuals who understand our mission "Unleash the potential of manufacturing".

●Individuals who can confront essential challenges and take action with a sense of ownership to resolve them.

●Individuals who can perform their duties with a positive attitude and constructive discussions in fast-changing and highly uncertain situations.

●Individuals who can communicate and discuss with a respectful attitude, considering the context and resolution of others.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Work with International team members

● Hybrid working environment

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Software Engineer in Japan! 

■ Software Engineer 

■ Company Overview

An e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications company with more than 30,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

●As a Software Engineer in the team will be required strong direct marketing insight across multiple marketing channels as well as strong technical knowledge to implement user story into the platform and support marketing activity quickly and efficiently.

Responsibilities

●Your main responsibility will be development and maintenance of Data Management Platform understanding both business demand and available system assets.

●Involved in whole process of web application and data pipeline development life cycle: architecture design, middleware selection, development, configuration setting, release and system operation

●In case of trouble, detecting root cause and recovering with team members proactively with ownership of service/system

●Proposing new technologies, middle-wares, tools etc. to improve architecture of systems

■ Experience and Qualifications

●4+ years of professional software engineering with a production-first mindset

●Deep Domain Expertise: Mastery in exactly two of the following areas:

●Backend: Java Spring Boot/Batch, Microservices, and GCP Serverless (Cloud Run/Jobs).

●Frontend: React, TypeScript, and modern web architecture at scale.

●Data Processing: BigQuery, GCP Dataflow, Apache Spark, and large-scale ETL (100+ TB).

●Platform/DevOps: Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/cost monitoring.

●Core Competencies: High-performance thinking (latency/throughput), architectural judgment, and proficiency with AI productivity tools.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
●Practical knowledge of system performance tuning including OS, middleware, JVM and application

●Familiar with container deployment setting (Docker, k8s, Jenkins)

●Experience of Frontend development with TypeScript, React, Material UI

●Experience of data processing with Spark, Kafka

●Contributing to OSS community

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Hybrid position in Japan

● Work with International team members

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.