Applications: candidates may apply from outside Japan. Visa sponsorship: available. Japanese: Conversational. English: Business level. Japan Dev tags: Engineering, Web / Full-stack, NodeJS, React, Typescript, AWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
About the position
We primarily code in TypeScript, with React on the frontend, and Nest.js and Prisma on the backend.You’ll have the opportunity to take on problems that are technically challenging, like improving matching algorithms.As we’re supporters of open source, while you develop, you’ll make PRs to the open source projects that you use, as part of your normal workflow.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience, with 2+ years at a single company
- Experience working at a product-focused company.
- Sorry, if you’ve only worked at a consulting company that builds tech products for other companies, it’s not going to be a good fit.
- Experience communicating with non-engineers, especially communicating with biz/ops team members.
- TypeScript, React, and Node.js experience.
- Experience with automated testing.
- Conversational-level Japanese (equivalent to JLPT N3)
Nice to haves
While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.
- Development and operation using containers (e.g. Docker)
- Cloud infrastructure experience (e.g. AWS or GCP)
- Machine learning or recommendation engines
- Performance measurement and bottleneck investigation
- Business-level Japanese (equivalent to JLPT N1)
Hiring Process
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Casual chat
A 30-minute casual chat with a MeetsMore engineer to tell you more about us and give you the opportunity to ask questions.
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Coding interview
A 1-hour coding interview, this will be done in TypeScript and is a real-world scenario, not a LeetCode style problem, we want this stage to be as realistic as possible so using Google and Stack Overflow etc. is fine.
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System architecture and design
A 1-hour casual chat with another engineer where you’ll discuss system architecture and design.
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A chat with the CTO
A 1-hour casual chat with Fumi-san, our CTO.