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Senior Frontend Engineer

Shippio Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥7M ~ ¥10M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 5+ years experience required
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

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

  • Lead the development of our advanced logistics platform
  • Work with product managers and designers to implement new platform features.
  • Act as an experienced leader to our team by reviewing code and mentoring juniors.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience with JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Proficiency with React and its ecosystem (e.g., React Router, Redux)
  • Expertise in state management and caching (Context API, Redux, IndexedDB, etc.)
  • A good understanding of modern UI/UX for single-page applications (SPAs)
  • Familiarity with UI frameworks and styling techniques (e.g., MUI, Sass, Flex, BFF)
  • Ability to set up and configure projects (npm/yarn, Vite, turbo, eslint, biome, etc.)
  • Experience with unit and E2E testing/automation (Jest, Playwright, etc.)
  • Excellent debugging and error handling skills
  • Solid architectural understanding, including design patterns
  • Proactive with strong leadership abilities
  • Autonomously organize and prioritize tasks
  • Experience creating technical documentation
  • Experience working in an Agile environment

Nice to haves

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

  • Interest in logistics and data management
  • You have extensive experience with REST APIs or similar (e.g. GraphQL)
  • Trunk based development and Feature flags
  • Basic understanding of CI/CD workflows and setup (e.g. GitHub actions)
  • Backend or full-stack experience (Nodejs, Ruby etc.)
  • Web design and creating visual mockups (Figma, Sketch, Photoshop)
  • Cloud development experience (preferably AWS, GCP)
  • Japanese conversational skills

Compensation

7 to 10 million JPY annually.

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.

Read his story...

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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