★Server-side Engineer / Famous App Development Company

• Japanese: Business Level REQUIRED (N2 Level)

★Major IT company: In-house Development

★Flextime System & Hybrid Work

★Annual salary: 8 million yen - 12 million yen

★Global Business & International Environment

【About the company】

The company is developing an e-comics service for smartphones that allows users to easily enjoy manga works via an app. This service is expanding in the Japanese market as a member of "WEBTOON worldwide service," an alliance of platform services that boasts the overwhelming world's largest scale in this market, with 82 million global monthly users, over 200 million cumulative downloads, and a monthly circulation of over 10 billion yen.

The company's service has grown steadily since its release in 2013.

・2021 Domestic App Spending Ranking #2 (as of January 2022/Exhibit: App Annie)

・Non-Game No. 9 in global mobile app revenue ranking (as of June 2021/exhibit: Sensortower)

・No. 1 in Google Play free popular apps ranking (as of December 6, 2021/Exhibit:Google Play)

【 Job Description】

■Responsibilities / Role

・Developing new features with a focus on Kotlin and from the user's perspective to improve services

・Leading the development and implementation of measures to ensure stable operation of the system by profiling the system and taking the initiative.

・Identification of various technical issues and promotion of improvements in order to scale services

・Coordinate the development of services in collaboration with multiple departments, such as the planning team, within the team to which you belong.

・Design architecture with performance and scalability in mind

・Ensuring code quality through code reviews on GitHub

・Team building and activities to improve the technical skills of the team

■Development Environment

・Languages/Frameworks: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot

・Technology stack: MySQL, Redis, Kafka, memcached, Hbase, OpenSearch, Kubernetes, Docker, in-house IaaS and PaaS services, etc.

・Tools: GitHub Enterprise, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Slack

・Development terminal: M1 Pro / M1 Max MacBook Pro, etc. (confirm desired spec before joining the company / multiple units can be lent), external monitors and verification terminals can be lent.

■Action Guidelines

・User First

The company develops its services with thorough attention to detail, with the desire to deliver fun and convenience to as many people as possible.

The passion for users leads to the development of even better services.

・Data Driven

The company makes decisions that are important to the business, introduces new features, and revamps UI/UX, based on data.

They value looking at data as a compass to determine strategies and actions.

・Take Ownership

Everyone is encouraged to take ownership as a product manager.

The company believes that increasing the number of areas in which one can make decisions and taking proactive action will have a positive impact on the team as a whole.

■Career Paths

There are three broad career paths after joining the company

1. Individual Contributor: Contribute to the team through designing, coding, and reviewing, while developing technical skills as an individual engineer.

2. Tech Lead: Organize a small to medium group of engineers and lead the development and technical skills of the team. 3) Engineering Manager: Lead a small to medium group of engineers and lead the development and technical skills of the team.

3. Engineering Manager: Organizes a medium to large group of engineers and aims to maximize the output of the team.

【 Requirements】

【Required】

・5+ years of experience developing web applications using Java or server-side Kotlin

・Experience driving service development in a team environment

・Basic knowledge of computer science (algorithms, data structures, databases, networks, etc.)

・Experience in development using RDBMS

・Japanese N1 level

【Preferred】

・Experience in developing consumer-oriented services

・Experience in developing large-scale web services

・Experience in defining requirements and designing software architecture

・Experience developing web applications using Spring Boot

・Experience in development using nginx, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, gRPC, K8s, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch

・Experience in automation of development environment by CI/CD using Jenkins, Drone, CircleCI, etc.

【Ideal Applicants】

・Able to think for the benefit of users and the team and proactively propose improvements

・Willing to contribute to the service with the power of technology

・Able to communicate flexibly in order to achieve high performance in a team

・Willing to absorb new knowledge and technologies

・Love comics and believe in the potential of digital distribution

【Working Time 】

Flextime System

(*Core-time 11:00~16:00)

【 Welfare 】

・Full Social Insurance

・Commuting Allowance

・Medical checkups

・Various in-house events, etc.

■Measures to prevent passive smoking

・In principle, no smoking indoors (smoking rooms are available indoors)

・Yotsuya Office, Minami Shinjuku Office, Osaki Office

・Salary revision: Twice a year

・Allowance: Transportation expenses (in accordance with company regulations), LINE Pay Card Benefit Plan(*2)

(*1) In addition to the annual salary amount, incentives may be paid twice a year depending on the company's and the individual's performance and evaluation.

(This is not always paid. Only employees who are enrolled at the company on the date of payment are eligible for the payment).

(*2) This allowance is paid separately from salary for the purpose of "health maintenance and improvement," "self-development," and "next-generation development" of employees.

【 Holiday 】

• 2 days a week (Saturday and Sunday)
• Annual Paid Leave
• National Holidays
• New Year holiday, etc