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Frontend Engineer

ICHIGO Inc. Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏢 No remote
  • 🧪 Minimum years of experience unspecified
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About ICHIGO Inc.

We share the latest Japanese pop culture through snacks and kawaii merchandise, and we recently launched a new service which lets anyone experience playing authentic Japanese arcade machines online.

Key benefits

  • Meritocracy and data-driven
  • Frequent social events
  • All-you-can-eat Japanese snacks

About the position

We are looking for someone who can help our team of engineers to develop both frontend and backend system requirements, specialising in building frontend user experiences. Our team has been expanding rapidly in recent years, so someone who loves to work in a fast-paced environment would be preferred. Your primary focus is to maintain and build new features in JavaScript and TypeScript, while sharing and contributing to our culture of continuous learning.

Responsibilities

  • Understand product goals and feature requests and translate them into working software
  • Support team members through code review and architecture decisions
  • Write tests that validate the stability and correctness of implementations
  • Handle refactorings with both bravery and care

Requirements

  • 3+ years of frontend development experience using modern frontend frameworks such as React or Vue
  • Deep understanding of CSS and an ability to translate designs into clean code
  • Strong testing methodology with Jest or similar
  • Strong understanding of functional programming and/or OOP
  • A knack for writing clean, readable JavaScript code
  • Willingness to learn and experiment with new technology (e.g. GraphQL, TypeScript, etc.)
  • Efficient time management skill

Nice to haves

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

  • Ruby on Rails and/or Node.js experience
  • Experience working in a Scrum/Agile development team
  • Development experience with TypeScript
  • DevOps experience managing cloud infrastructure and/or IoT devices

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