Android Developer

KOMOJU Musashino-Shi, Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡 Fully remote (within Japan)
  • 🧪 3+ years experience required
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 🧳 No relocation support
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About KOMOJU

KOMOJU Musashino-Shi, Tokyo

The leading cross-border payment gateway for Japan. We power payments for companies like video game distribution platform Steam and the popular mobile app TikTok.

Key benefits

  • Developer-centric, inclusive culture
  • International at our core
  • Generous holiday policy

About the position

We are looking for our first Android Developer to help build out KOMOJU’s Point of Sale (POS) application and mobile SDK which implements our for payment processing. As you will be our first android engineer, you will have the ability to influence coding standards and the frameworks we adopt.

Our ideal candidate has experience working on mobile applications and is eager to learn other languages and frameworks across tech stacks to ship the best mobile experiences. Testing and code quality are also extremely important to our culture, so having a strong knowledge of testing and the different testing types is required.

While we are a remote-first company, this position is based in Tokyo, and we expect candidates to be willing to relocate to Japan.

Responsibilities

  • Develop KOMOJU POS, KOMOJU Tap-to-Pay app and mobile SDK offerings using Kotlin.
  • Collaborate with product managers and other developers to define, design, and ship new features.
  • Work across tech stacks with backend engineers to design and implement features for mobile applications.
  • Flexibility to engage with other programming languages and work on our platform backend as needed.
  • Technical design and architecture review across both mobile platforms (iOS and Android).

Requirements

  • Minimum 3+ years of experience.
  • Experience with Android SDK and mobile development lifecycle.
  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect mobile applications to back-end services.
  • Strong knowledge of mobile UI/UX principles, patterns, and best practices.
  • Generalist (T-shaped developer), able to jump between multiple areas of our tech stack to get the job done.
  • Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
  • Knowledge of cross-platform frameworks for iOS and Android is welcomed.

Nice to haves

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

  • Some experience of iOS development and general familiarity with iOS architecture is welcomed.
  • Experience working for a Japanese business
  • Business-level proficiency in Japanese.

Compensation

Includes (rough estimate of) profit share. Based on experience and skill level.

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Meet KOMOJU's Developers

Head of Customer Engineering Makoto Mizukami describes the unconventional candidates his unique team is looking for.

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Nicole joined KOMOJU in 2020, and worked her way up to be technical lead of the merchant management team. She shares her journey, how KOMOJU supported her career growth and how the company is adapting to its growing needs.

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Nigel was fresh out of college when he joined KOMOJU as a developer. He's now risen to tech lead, where he's helped build out their payment platform while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

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Muhammad Denaw, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Komoju, talks about his work and shares how Komoju's trust and support propelled him to a promotion.

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