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Backend Engineer

6M JPY - ***M JPY

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Hokkaido 47More

Full-time (permanent)

Online Interview: Yes

Remote Work from Overseas: Yes / Remote Work in Japan: Yes

Top-Selling Points

Rate of Foreigners

More Than

Frequency of English Usage

More Than

Remote work Use English Start-up International employees Flex-time Short overtime work (less than 20 hours) Long-term vacations High utilization rate of paid leaves No Japanese language required Incentives available In-house product development

Related Skills

Programming Language

Scala Kotlin Java

Language Requirements

Required

Preferred

Job Description

■Overview
We’re the creators of the award winning skill evaluation and training platform 'Track'. We are currently tackling the exciting mission of modernizing Japan's hiring culture and help companies build and maintain strong engineering teams. Through this year and beyond we plan to expand our product lineup, enhance our UI/UX, roll out new microservices, and build new features which we hope you’ll be a big part in the planning and building.

■Why we are looking for Backend engineer
Givery aims to provide the missing link that our clients need to scout, hire, and train world-class engineers. We are profitable, privately owned, and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Our clients include some of the biggest names in Japan. We have a diverse team from all corners of the world and we are looking for a skilled backend engineer to help us expand Track, a platform that helps companies train and evaluate technical skills.

■Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, maintain, and test new and existing backend features for Givery’s platform primarily using Scala.
- Collaborate with your team to evaluate and clarify product requirements, delivering technical solutions that align with user needs.
- Participate in strategic decision-making to propose optimal and efficient solutions.
- Work closely with a diverse, distributed engineering team to uphold a high-quality code base and continuously learn from and mentor each other.
- Monitor and respond promptly to any production issues to ensure the stable operation of our services. (**We take pride in releasing high-quality, bug-free code. Production incidents are extremely rare and mostly handled during core work hours.)

■Development Environment
 - Serverside: Scala
- Frontend: React, Typescript
- Database: PostgreSQL (RDS)
- Infrastructure: AWS（ALB, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda), Docker, Redis, Terraform

■The Attractiveness of the Position
- Choose where you work
We are set up for remote work, but you are more than welcome to come to our modern office in Shibuya, Tokyo.

- Awesome tech!
One particular aspect that makes us proud of our team is the fact that we use modern technologies with development practices such as code reviews, continuous integration, unit tests, etc. Engineers feel welcome here.

- Work-life balance
We encourages team members to have other activities and responsibilities in life, the average engineer works 40 hours a week. We have flex time, maternity/paternity leave, etc which is something a lot of our proud new parents really appreciate.

- International environment
We have people from all corners of the world working together to build the best products possible.
The assigned team is a global development team comprising engineers from over 20 countries, including the UK, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the United States.
Internal communication is conducted in English.


■Work Style
・Weekly Meetings (usually averages to around 1 hour per day for an engineer):
 　‐ 4-5 daily stand ups lasting a maximum 15 minutes
 　‐ 2-3 hours worth of agile meetings (Sprint planning, backlog clarification, sprint retrospective, sprint review (we call this dogfooding)
　 ‐ Any other meeting relating to a project (usually 1 or 2 hours)

・Technical Work (is up to the discretion of the engineer, we don’t dictate how they spend their time)
 　‐ Programming and planning (technical documentation) is the majority of an engineers time
 　‐ People usually do peer reviews before or after lunch
 　‐ Technical improvements depending on your team’s priority

Required Skills and Experiences

【Mandatory Requirements】 - 3+ years of professional experience driving the backend work of a commercial product using a JVM based language (Scala, Kotlin, Java) or a relevant modern programming language - Experience building REST APIs running over distributed infrastructure - Strong interest in and practical application of basic functional programming concepts - Familiarity with non blocking, asynchronous programming techniques (e.g. Futures, Akka/Actors, Typelevel/IO) - Experience working with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) - Understanding and experience writing and maintaining automated test suites (Integration tests, Unit tests, Property based tests…) - Experience working with cloud service providers (AWS / GCP / Azure) Business level language skills in English 【Preferred Requirements】 - Expert-level fluency with Scala 2 and 3 - Experience working with Node.js/NestJS, Go, and/or Rust - Experience working with React (and not allergic to frontend development tasks) - Spoken and written Japanese language ability

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Working Condition

■Employment Type
Permanent employee
Probation period: ３ months.

■Work Location※In case of coming to the office
150-0036 Tokyo, Shibuya-ku, Nanpeidaicho 15-13, Teito Shibuya Building 8F

■Expected Annual Salary
6 - 8 million yen
- Includes fixed overtime allowance for 45 hours per month.
- Additional overtime pay will be provided for any hours exceeding the fixed allowance.

Salary Revision: Twice a year
Performance Bonus: Twice a year

(Scope of Job Changes)
All duties within the company

■Working Hours
Flextime System
Core Time: 13:00 - 16:00
Flextime Hours: Start: 8:00 - 13:00 / End: 16:00 - 22:00

■Vacations
 ‐ Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
 ‐ Japanese national holidays
 ‐ Paid holiday: 10 days (first year) *Number of paid holidays increases (+1 day) every year up to 20 days a year.

■Benefit
 ‐ Health Insurance
 ‐ Transportation allowance (up to 30,000 yen per month)
 ‐ Family allowance (10,000 yen per month per dependent child up to age 18)
 ‐ In-house bar, free drinks

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

1) Coding Test
2) Casual Chat
3) Team Interview with engineers
4) Final Interview with EM

*All conducted online
*The order of 1 and 2 may change.

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