Ceridian Dayforce Japan KK (formely Ascender Japan) is a growing foreign-owned company of about 80 people based in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, in the HR tech space. Our core business is providing managed payroll services to both foreign and Japanese clients in the mid-tier market (300-3,000 employee size), based on our own web-based HR/time/leave/payroll system called Workcloud. Our business has grown 30% year-on-year for the last 3 years.
Our product development team
Our product development team has 9 developers and 12 QA engineers. We are a test-driven team working on a 2 week sprint cycle, using JIRA / Confluence / CircleCI / Github. Our team is very diverse with a good composition of Japanese and English speakers.
Our tech stack and tools
- Ruby on Rails (Monolithic)
- MySQL (Using AWS RDS)
- Plain JavaScript with jQuery
- Docker based
- AWS OpsWorks / Cloudfront / S3
- Github / CircleCI / JIRA
- TDD: Code coverage >= 80%
We welcome overseas candidates
We’ll sponsor your visa to come to Japan. While it is being processed, you’ll be able to work remotely from your own country.
Flex time and remote work
We offer flex time, with core hours of 11am-3pm, and a remote work culture.
Our response to COVID-19
We’re beginning to encourage developers to come back to the office. As we have a limit on capacity, this will probably mean they’ll work once or twice a week in the office.