Graduate Software Developer

Company overview

Headquartered in Tokyo since 2001, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Founded in 2001, we now have 280 employees.

The Graduate Software Developer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote within Japan. The team meets in Tokyo once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Responsibilities

• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.

Requirements

• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.

Nice to have

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Why work with us

Compensation: ¥3,800,000 - ¥5,200,000 a year

• Retirement allowance.
• Paid leave.
• Bonus twice a year.
• Social insurance.
• Housing allowance.
• Flexible hours.
• Remote work allowed.

We review applications as they come in.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at LJ Software Co., Ltd..