Backend Engineer

• Company Active Connector Inc.
• No. of Openings 10+
• Salary Not Disclosed
• Work Type on-site

Job Description :

Overview

• Backend Engineer; Tokyo
• 3 years experience as Backend Engineer
• Product: Lifestyle Platform
• Japanese: None
• Salary: 6M-10M JPY

Who You Will Work With

A company that develops and operates lifestyle platform and applications that distribute videos of cooking recipes, and provide information on topics such as fashion, beauty, and love. Their cooking recipe video service provides more than 40,000 recipes that can be easily and deliciously prepared under the supervision of a registered dietitian. As of April 2021, the total number of downloads exceeded 29 million, it has established itself as the No.1 recipe video service in Japan. Lifestyle platform is a service for women that carefully selects and publishes only high-quality content from articles provided by more than 200 partners. It offers a wide variety of content including fashion, romance, marriage, money, lifestyle, etc. As of March 2021, the number of monthly users exceeded 45 million. In January 2018, the company raised a total of 3.35 billion yen through a third-party allotment of new shares to Yahoo's YJ2 Investment Business Partnership, Akatsuki, United, and others. In addition to reinforcing human resources and marketing, the company also indicated its intention to develop new businesses and consider M&A. In July of the same year, Yahoo invested approximately 9.3 billion yen to purchase the shares held by existing shareholders, raising its voting rights to 45.6% and making the company a consolidated subsidiary.

Corporate Culture, Global Aspects, PR Aspects, etc.

• Foreign employees already employed
• Stable foundation: Since July 2018, the company has been a subsidiary of Yahoo (Z Holdings)
• The lifestyle platform has 45 million monthly users.
• Flex-time

Roles and responsibilities

• Modeling of business processes for supermarket retailers
• Development of GraphQL API using Ruby on Rails
• Building search engine using Elasticsearch
• Product development following the Scrum style
• Engineering that fully understands the field operations and solves the problems

Desired Experiences/Skills

• At least 2+ years of experience in application development using Ruby on Rails
• Experience in Web API development
• Experience in DB design

*Please note that the position is only for those who are currently residing in Japan

What you’ll get in return

Starting salary from 6M-10M JPY

Who We Are

Active-Connector works with innovative Japanese companies aiming to promote genuine diversity and push for a better work environment. The companies we work with are often StartUps in the tech sector who are always on the lookout for international professionals to help them take their business to the next level. We work with revolutionary risk-takers who want to create a positive impact and change how the world perceives Japan as a closed and traditional society. We carefully choose to work with Japanese companies that share our vision and values in one way or another.