Back-end Engineer

Shippio Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥5M ~ ¥7M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 2+ years experience required
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 🧳 No relocation support
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About Shippio

Shippio Minato-ku, Tokyo

Japan's first digital freight forwarder, building a multi-faceted digital platform that allows both customers (importer/exporter) and operators to efficiently and fluidly process international trade workflows.

Key benefits

  • Passionate and human-sized team
  • Exciting challenges and rapid growth
  • World-class engineering team

About the position

Responsibilities

  • Join our development team to enhance our advanced logistics platform.
  • Collaborate with product managers and designers to implement new features.
  • Participate in Agile processes, including sprint planning and daily stand-ups.
  • Grow your skills through teamwork, brainstorming sessions, and code reviews.
  • Expand your knowledge in digital forwarding and logistics concepts.

Requirements

  • 2+ years experience as a back-end engineer
  • Good understanding of Ruby, Ruby and Rails. You may substitute this experience with other languages such as Go, Python, etc., but as most of the back-end is written in Ruby, you must be comfortable with using Ruby
  • Good level of understanding systems architecture, data structures, and design patterns
  • Some experience in dealing SQL databases
  • Intellectually curious and eager to take on new challenges
  • Fast learning and being able to adapt to new technologies
  • Ability to work independently and manage time effectively
  • Motivation to learn digital forwarding and logistics concepts
  • Good communication skills and ability to write technical documentation

Nice to haves

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

  • Communication skills in Japanese, or the willingness to take on that challenge
  • Experience in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.)
  • Experience with building platforms that incorporate cybersecurity requirements
  • Full-stack or front-end experience (Javascript, React, Node.js, etc.)

Compensation

5 to 7 million JPY annually.

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Meet Shippio's Developers

Chris Ackermann started his career in logistics, where he pushed to improve conditions for operators. Rebooting his career as a software developer at Shippio, he once again pursues his passion of revolutionising the logistics industry.

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Gloria recently joined Shippio, starting her engineering manager career after previously working as a security engineer. She talks about her role, how the transition went, the company culture, and how she’s helping to shape their security processes.

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