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Software Architect

Visual Alpha Minato-ku, Tokyo
    💴 No salary range given
    🏡 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 software architect role to lead on software architecture design, functional design, and implementation.

Opportunity

  • Work for a fast growing B2B fintech startup to innovate investment management
  • Join a diverse international team of data science and investment experts
  • Become one of the earliest members of a promising startup

Role

  • Translate complex client requirements into practical, cloud-scalable technical solutions.
  • Implement front-end and back-end functional components.
  • Typical time allocation: design 50%, implementation 50%.
  • Mentor other team members through attentive code review and sharing experience in (for example) design pattern advantages and disadvantages

Required Skills

  • Confident full-stack development in monolithic and microservices architectures
  • 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
  • Ongoing awareness of AWS platform services, updates, and experience with Infrastructure as Code
  • Self-motivated, client-oriented thinking
  • Strong design, presentation, and collaboration skills; must be a strong team player
  • Fluent in English

Desired Skills

  • Knowledge of investment management (significant advantage)
  • Very strong background in merging datasets from various offline and online sources (ex: ETL systems, data lakes, etc)
  • Previous experience in setting up cloud information security standard
  • Conversational Japanese

Technologies

React, PHP (Laravel), Mysql, ApolloClient, GraphQL, Restful API, AWS, CircleCI, Git, Github

A Day in the Life

Generally you’ll be working in “sprints”: Everyone on the dev team delivers features to our client in a 1~2 weeks sprint. We encourage developers to deliver features to our clients independently by implementing a well designed full stack solution reviewed by the team.

So your day might break down like this:

Morning: Come in around 9am, check messages, emails, arrange short, medium and long-term to-do lists. Note that under the current covid situation, we only come to office twice a week. Carry out coding, problem-solving and development. At various points you will ask for advice (or give advice). After you find a solution, you’d usually create a “change request” or “pull request” summarising changes proposed. This would probably bring you to lunch.

Afternoon: The afternoon is often when meetings are held and longer-term projects are discussed. After design discussions, you’re given a list of requirements, and then you would have to document the system design and get it reviewed.

End of Day: Wrap up work and get critical questions clarified before the end of day. Most people will leave around 5:30pm, and sometimes we have a bit after work drinks toward the weekend. We are flexible with working hours, but rather emphasizing on efficiency and quality.

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