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Senior Developer

Visual Alpha Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥6M ~ ¥8M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 Minimum years of experience unspecified
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About Visual Alpha

Visual Alpha Minato-ku, Tokyo

Visual Alpha is a B2B fintech startup that provides a SaaS data service to institutional investors and asset managers.

Key benefits

  • Fast growing B2B fintech startup
  • Diverse international team
  • Be an early members of our startup

About the position

We are currently hiring for a senior software engineer role to design and implement features on the cloud platform for our clients.

Responsibilities

  • Translate complex client requirements into practical, cloud-scalable technical solutions.
  • Implement back-end infrastructure components.
  • Design new web-services and ETL workflows.
  • Create unit tests and integration tests to ensure quality.
  • Typical time allocation: design 20%, implementation 80%.

Requirements

  • A love of learning and proven experience in becoming a domain expert; in our case, you will become an expert in investment data analysis and investment reporting visualization
  • Pragmatic experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, etc) and iterative process improvements
  • Self-motivated, client-oriented thinking, ability to learn new technologies quickly
  • Strong design, presentation, and collaboration skills; must be a strong team player
  • Good knowledge of NodeJS or desire to learn coupled with strong experience in one of C++, Python, PHP, or Rust

Nice to haves

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

  • Knowledge of investment management (significant advantage)
  • Strong at mathematical calculation programming (significant advantage)
  • Very strong background in merging datasets from various offline and online sources (ex: ETL systems, data lakes, etc)
  • Experience implementing various design patterns
  • Familiarity with xUnit design concepts and patterns
  • Experience creating web-services and/or ETL workflows

Compensation

6 to 8 million JPY annually plus stock options and bonus.

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