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Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Shippio Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥8M ~ ¥11M 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

We created our product 3 years ago and realised that it was no longer aligned with the business strategy. Therefore, last summer we made the decision to rebuild from scratch. We used this opportunity to move our FE stack from Vue.js to React.js as the team was eager to learn. We currently have 2 web applications and soon will have a 3rd, each with different user stories and challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Technical decision making for the scrum team
  • Train team members through code reviews and pair programming
  • Development project management
  • Continuous improvement work to ensure service compliance, stability, usability, and flexibility
  • Contribute to the creation of rules, best practices, and culture across the team

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in web application development
  • Navigator, negotiate challenges to find optimal solutions
  • Able to work smoothly and autonomously in a multicultural environment
  • Good intra and inter-team communication skills
  • Valid work authorization or a degree in a related field for those requiring visa sponsorship

Nice to haves

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

  • Communication skills in Japanese are highly appreciated
  • Intellectually curious and eager to take on new challenges
  • Interested in working on Business to Business development by leveraging your own development experience
  • Able to approach products from a user-first perspective
  • Understand the back-end constraints and be able to design an API call

Compensation

8 to 11 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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