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Job Description
Job Description
Job Opportunity in Japan Permanent role
Job Title
Backend Developer
Company Overview
This Japanese digital platform is the result of a merger between a major messaging app and a long-established internet portal company. It combines real-time communication tools with a wide range of online services including news shopping financial technology and entertainment. Serving millions of users across Japan the platform plays a central role in daily digital lifeoffering secure messaging mobile payments and personalized content delivery.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Design implement and deliver large-scale complex systems that meet business and technical requirements.
Collaborate with product managers frontend engineers and other teams to support system design and development.
Leverage infrastructure solutions to solve large-scale challenges.
Share technical knowledge and best practices with the team conducting code reviews and participating in knowledge sharing sessions.
Debug and resolve product issues troubleshooting any technical issues in a timely manner.
Demonstrate a problem-solving mindset going to the root cause of issues and continuously improving the systems.
Support the code you write in production ensuring reliability and performance in live environments.
Experience and Qualifications
Strong experience in object-oriented programming (OOP) preferably in JVM-based languages like Java Scala or C#.
Solid knowledge of distributed systems concurrency and high-traffic system design.
Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs Pub/Sub systems and database clients.
Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.
Knowledge of RDBMS NoSQL databases and distributed caching solutions.
Proficient in data structures algorithms and software design principles.
Familiarity with AWS services (ECS CloudFormation CloudWatch) and CI/CD practices.
Experience in designing scalable systems and handling high traffic loads.
A degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or 3 years of equivalent SaaS platform development experience.
Business proficiency in English.
Work Location
Tokyo Japan
Details will be provided during the meeting.
Employment Type
Full Time
