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Job Description
Job Description
Are you interested in building revolutionary fintech products
Keep reading below and send us your expression of interest today!
**You will need to relocate to Japan
Job Title
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 in being 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a team building services not previously available to users in the market or creatively revolutionising and modernising outdated services then this could be the opportunity for you!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!
Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for 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!
(Upon Employment)
Support the design implementation and delivery of large scale and complex systems while collaborating with product managers frontend engineers or other team members.
Understand how to leverage infrastructure to solve large scale problems.
Contribute to the team by sharing knowledge participating in code reviews and providing feedback to uphold and ensure best practices.
Triage debug and resolve product issues or other incoming troubles inquiries
Adopt problem solving as a way of life always go to the root cause! Support the code you write in production.
(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
Experience in using Spring Boot in a professional environment.
Experience with RDBMS NoSQL databases along with distributed cache.
Strong fundamentals in data structures algorithms and object oriented programming.
In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing.
Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 5 years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development.
English business proficiency
Additional Preferred Qualifications
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 in microservices & event-driven architecture
Experience in a multicultural environment
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 Years 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 thats your vibe!
(Scope of change)
Location as specified by the company
Salary
- (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 companys comprehensive and fair interview process. **
So What are the Next Steps
If youre interested in this role click IM INTERESTED
If this job isnt 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.
Employment Type
Full Time
