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Cookpad Ltd

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In office: Tokyo

  • 🇯🇵 Japan
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Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Description

About Cookpad

Cookpad is a food tech company dedicated to shaping the future of home cooking and food as a pillar for a sustainable future. We have been developing innovative product ideas and we have a new product launch in 5 countries: Japan, Indonesia, UK, France and Italy.

Moment helps people learn to cook in an innovative way with a personal coaching service. This service is completely based in AI using multimodal (text, vision, audio).

About the role

We are seeking a skilled Senior Full-Stack Engineer to develop and maintain our Django-based platform. This role focuses on building robust web applications with modern frontend interfaces, scalable backend systems, and cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Python/Django, frontend technologies, and AWS, with the ability to work independently on complex, feature-rich applications.

The successful candidate will join our international Moment team in Tokyo.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and develop full-stack web applications using Django and modern frontend technologies

  • Build and maintain scalable APIs and backend services

  • Implement responsive, interactive user interfaces

  • Design and optimize database schemas and queries

  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver product features

  • Participate in code reviews and technical architecture decisions

Skills & qualifications

Experience Level: Senior level (approx. 5+ years). This role requires someone who can make architectural decisions and work independently on complex applications.

_ Required:_

  • 5+ years of Python development experience with strong Django framework and Django REST Framework expertise

  • PostgreSQL database design and optimization

  • Experience with API development and integration

  • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3

  • Experience with jQuery, Bootstrap, and responsive design

  • Knowledge of frontend build tools and package management

  • Experience with Git version control and CI/CD pipelines

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of delivering innovative solutions.

  • Product-minded approach to understanding business requirements

Nice to have:

  • Experience with React or other modern JavaScript frameworks

  • Experience in machine learning deployments, LLM based applications

  • Docker containerization experience

  • Hands-on experience with AWS services (Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, ECS, …)

  • Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly with Terraform

  • Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB)

  • Knowledge of event streaming technologies (Kafka)

Benefits

What we offer

* The position is full-time employment, subject to a probation period. 
* A competitive salary 
* Relocation support, including Japan work visa (if required) 
* The chance to work in a fast-paced, highly ambitious team