Senior Software Engineer, Japan

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Requirements:

• Comfortable communicating in both Japanese and English.
• Strong experience working in fully cloud-hosted environments (e.g. AWS).
• Strong proficiency in software architecture using Python or similar backend programming languages.
• Solid RDBMS experience, preferably with PostgreSQL.
• Experience building RESTful APIs (e.g. FastAPI) and real-time data processing pipelines.
• Deep understanding of modern software development lifecycles, including code quality, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD, QA, and production releases in an agile, fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative by nature, with excellent communication, teamwork abilities, and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable and confident speaking directly with customers, including non-technical individuals.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically and creatively.
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

Responsibilities:

• Work with different stakeholders across the business and directly with our customers to understand a problem space within your area, propose solutions, and own the end to end delivery of complex projects.
• Own and maintain specific parts of our stack with best in class engineering practices.
• Write comprehensive unit, integration and end-to-end automated tests in the backend for customer-facing features.
• Lead on platform-facing work, using infrastructure-as-code (AWS, terraform, k8s) to ensure our platform is reliable and scalable.
• Take a lead in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and keep to date with latest trends in the industry.
• Provide mentoring to other members of the Engineering and Data Science teams.
• Lead in the continuous improvement of the processes and ways of working for the engineering team.
• Manage feature rollouts with multiple releases per day by utilising feature flags, metrics, logs and alerting.