Lead/Senior Backend Engineer

Sollective Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥7M ~ ¥9M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 7+ years experience required
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 🧳 No relocation support
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About Sollective

Sollective Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo

Sollective is a community for professional freelancers and companies to directly connect for projects and opportunities. Sollective connects the greatest companies in Japan with the best hand-picked freelancers. Both freelancers and companies are screened to protect the community.

Key benefits

  • International from the beginning
  • Freelancer driven
  • Interact directly with customers

About the position

You’ll be part of the Product team, working alongside Engineers and other team members (UX Designers, Test Engineers, etc.) to expand our product offering to both our customers – freelancers and companies.

Responsibilities

  • Build exciting new business features using readable, maintainable, and reliable Ruby
  • Maintain and improve the existing codebase of our application
  • Help identify and fix bottlenecks and bugs
  • Implement best practices of automated testing and unit tests
  • Help maintain code quality, organization, and documentation

Requirements

  • 7+ years of full-stack or backend development experience, with a Ruby on Rails backend. You should have experience building and using modern APIs.
  • Very comfortable leading and working in a team environment, asking questions to fellow team members to better define the scope and functionality of the feature you are building.
  • ElasticSearch experience
  • Some AWS (S3, Lambda) experience
  • Git & GitHub experience

Nice to haves

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

  • Startup experience
  • Familiarity with Japanese and working with the Japanese language in terms of design and development, including multi-language websites
  • DevOps Experience, including Ansible and Terraform
  • Testing with RSpec

Compensation

7 to 9 million JPY annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Interview with manager

    We’ll perform a technical assessment.

  2. 2

    Interview with Product Team members

    You’ll speak with two other members of the product team with a focus on personality and culture fit.

  3. 3

    Final interview

    You’ll talk with our CPO.

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