Software Engineer - Backend

Our Tokyo engineering team is hiring a backend software engineer to work on one of the company’s key components, included in all of our product offerings. The team’s mission is to provide a solid, tested and performant database / API / messaging bus layer that is shared across our deployments. While the engineer’s role is focused on software development and good software engineering practice, our values encourage open discussion and being a good colleague.

The position is available on site in Tokyo, Japan.

Our official language is English.

In this role, you will

• Develop Rapyuta’s core components

• Improve code quality at the same time

• Collaborate with developers from other teams

Minimum qualifications

• 3~5 years Python experience, including 3.10~3.11

• Web frameworks (e.g. FastAPI or Django)

• Databases (NoSQL or RDBMS, e.g. Redis or Postgres)

• Test & build (pytest, GitHub Actions, Docker)

Bonus points

• Presented at a conference, even if something small

• Can articulate technology choices, e.g. Tornado vs. Flask

• Practical experience with asyncio or some messaging bus

• Open-source contributions

Is this the right job for you?

• You like APIs designed with a clear purpose

• You want to see your code in production

• You like to know how your component operates as part of a larger system

• Competitive salary

• Working with exceptionally talented and diverse team

• Visa and relocation support