Principal Software Engineer

About the company:

PJ IT provides managed IT for offices of 10 to 200 users: help desk, patching, backups, Microsoft 365 and firewall management. Clients rely on us for laptop setup, Intune enrolment, backup monitoring and after-hours help when something breaks.

The Principal Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. We work hybrid out of Tokyo, usually three days in, two days remote.

Main duties:

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs

Who you are:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers

Preferred qualifications:

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Compensation and benefits:

• Paid leave
• Flexible hours
• Social insurance

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Flexible.

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