Tech Lead (Full-Stack Engineer)

Buzzreach Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥7M ~ ¥12M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 5+ years experience required
  • 💬 Conversational Japanese
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan
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About Buzzreach

Buzzreach Minato-ku, Tokyo

Buzzreach provides localized subject recruitment and retention solutions to match the right patients with the latest clinical trials, and provides a whole host of subject recruitment and retention support along the way – making sure that everyone reaches their end goals in the shortest amount of time.

About the position

Tech Stack

  • Frontend: Vue.js/Nuxt3, Node.js, nginx
  • Backend: Go, TypeScript, PHP8, Laravel
  • Data Store: Aurora MySQL, Redis
  • Environment: AWS, ECS (Fargate), Docker
  • Version Control: GitHub, Bitbucket
  • UI Design: Adobe XD, Figma
  • Others: Flutter, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Google Workspace

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical decision-making and development efforts
  • Optimize the architecture of multiple microservices and drive technical debt reduction projects
  • Improve development processes within a team of 10-20 engineers
  • Enhance code quality through code reviews and other best practices
  • Design and develop new features for StudyWorks

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in both backend and frontend development
  • 2+ years of experience as a technical leader, driving technology selection and implementation for mission-critical areas in a product of 10-20 engineers
  • 3+ years of experience working in an environment similar to our tech stack
  • Expertise in one of the following: DevOps, SRE, data infrastructure, or automated testing
  • Experience developing in cloud environments such as AWS
  • Conversational Japanese

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Experience with the development and operation of healthcare-related systems
  • Experience with microservices architecture development and operations
  • Ability to design and develop with performance and scalability in mind
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in product development
  • Knowledge and experience in Database (RDBMS), networking, Linux, monitoring systems, logging, operations, and SLO/SLA/SRE
  • Extensive knowledge in object-oriented software development, networking, memory management, and software testing
  • Experience in Scrum/Agile development

Compensation

7 to 12 million JPY annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Resume screening

  2. 2

    Screening interview

    Conducted by HR and team members to assess cultural fit, personality, and past experience.

  3. 3

    Technical interview

    Led by the development team lead to evaluate technical skills and past development experience

  4. 4

    Final interview

    With the CEO and executives, focusing on whether the candidate will elevate the company’s overall level.

  5. 5

    Offer meeting

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