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Software Engineer, Full Stack

SmartNews Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡 Fully remote
  • 🧪 Minimum years of experience unspecified
  • 💬 Fluent Japanese
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About SmartNews

SmartNews Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

SmartNews is a news app with 20 million monthly active users in the U.S. and Japan. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble.

Key benefits

  • Not too big, not too small
  • Highly collaborative environment
  • International team
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About the position

Responsibilities

  • Develop in-app web content
  • Develop web applications for internal use and external partners
  • Develop on server side for user-facing features
  • Continuously improve our system’s operations, stability, efficiency and scalability

Minimum Requirements

  • Advanced experience in Full Stack/Front-End development
  • Understanding of computer science (algorithms and data structures) and effective API design

Preferred Requirements

  • Advanced programming skills in one or more of the following languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, Swift
  • Understanding of web technologies and HTML5 features
  • Experience working with frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js, Svelte)
  • Development experience on AWS
  • Experience with SQL, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Docker, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, etc.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Application review

    When you submit your application to SmartNews, it will be reviewed by our recruitment team, to make sure it is relevant to the position.

  2. 2

    Online coding test

    When you pass this initial screening, you’ll then be sent out an online coding test. The results of this test and your resume will then be reviewed in more detail by one of our engineers.

  3. 3

    Interviews

    After you pass this secondary screening, you’ll be invited in for a round of interviews, covering both behavioral and technical topics.

  4. 4

    Offer

    Once you’ve passed these interviews, we’ll make you an offer.

Meet SmartNews's Developers

Photo of Robert Speller

When Robert joined SmartNews as a software engineer, most of his colleagues were Japanese. Since then, it’s grown into an international organization where English is predominantly used.

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Photo of YuCheng Chen

YuCheng is a senior software engineer at SmartNews. He explains the freedom he enjoys at SmartNews: not only from a technical perspective, but also the influence he can have over the direction of the product.

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Photo of Cortland Klein

Cortland recently joined SmartNews as an engineering manager, where he leads a six person team. He talks about what drew him to the company, his role as a manager, and how they use matrix management to maximize their engineers’ success.

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