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Senior/Lead Frontend Engineer

Autify Chuo-ku, Tokyo
    💴 ¥8M ~ ¥12M annually
    🏡 Fully remote
    🧪 5+ years experience required
    💬 No Japanese required
    🌏 Apply from abroad
    🧳 Relocate to Japan

About Autify

Autify Chuo-ku, Tokyo

A test automation platform founded in San Francisco by a team of engineers who were the first Japanese team to graduate from the top US accelerator Alchemist Accelerator. Over 300 companies have implemented our platform.

Key benefits

  • Engineering-centric culture
  • Remote-first
  • Internationally minded engineers

About the position

We are hiring both Senior Frontend Engineers and Lead Frontend Engineers. Through our hiring process, we’ll determine which role you fit best.

Responsibilities

  • Work with other engineers, designers, and product leads to implement various features while considering performance, security, and reliability.
  • Proactively identify functions that can be improved, and suggest possible solutions in the technical aspects and product-related ideas.
  • Web application development using Ruby on Rails, React, and TypeScript.
  • Facilitate future development by continually improving the existing systems architecture, code quality, CI/CD pipeline, etc.
  • Work with other teams to improve our E2E test automation product built with Selenium, Webdriver, etc.
  • Participate in incident handling and be in on-call rotations

Requirements

  • Being able to work in Japan standard time (Working partially in JST can be discussed)
  • Over five years of experience as a software engineer focusing on web development.
  • Over two years of experience in developing user interfaces with Javascript/Typescript and UI libraries such as React or similar.
  • Over one year of experience in server-side development (preferably using Ruby on Rails, although other experience is also considered)
  • Modern development experience with Agile or Scrum.
  • You’re excited about collaborating with a team.

Nice to haves

These aren’t required, but be sure to mention them in your application if you have them.

  • Ability and desire to improve the frontend architecture so that the entire team can easily develop and introduce new functions and change existing functions
  • Has strong experience with leading a technical team and coaching team members.
  • Experience working with browser extension APIs and web-based desktop app frameworks such as Electron/Tauri
  • A good understanding of UX best practices.
  • Experience in E2E test automation with Selenium and Appium
  • ISTQB/JSTQB certification
  • You can identify and understand issues from the user’s point of view, sympathizes with them and proactively provide solutions to tackle those issues.

Compensation

8 to 12 million JPY annually.

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