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Web Engineer

WOVN Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 3+ years experience required
  • 💬 Basic Japanese
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About WOVN

WOVN Minato-ku, Tokyo

WOVN.io is a website localization service. Our users want to provide their website in multiple languages. We strive to provide the simplest and most powerful solution to our users.

Key benefits

  • Friendly and supportive environment
  • Great mobility from within
  • No overtime
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About the position

Technology Stack

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Golang
  • Vue.js
  • Vanilla javascript/TypeScript
  • Rust
  • MongoDB
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Redis
  • Fastly
  • CircleCI
  • Jenkins

Requirements

  • 3+ years experience with web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or similar
  • Experience with NoSQL databases and/or relational database architecture
  • Strong sense of project ownership and responsibility
  • Familiar with cloud technologies such as AWS and development/deployment in a cloud infrastructure.
  • Interest in languages/internationalization

Nice ot haves

While these are not required, please tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Excellent analytical and creative approaches to problem-solving
  • Experience with large systems development
  • Experience with server/internet security
  • Experience with unit and end-to-end testing
  • Knowledge about Algorithms and data structures

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Online coding test

    We will contact successful applicants after their online test. Please be noted that we are not able to show the test score.

  2. 2

    Interviews

    By default, we have three interviews, but there might be more depending on the situation.

  3. 3

    Offer meeting

Meet WOVN's Developers

Photo of Jerome Marhic

Jerome joined WOVN as a backend engineer. Keeping things performant was a big technical challenge, as they have hundreds of requests per second and billions of records in their database. To top it off, for a time it was just him and one other developer responsible for the backend.

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Photo of Kseniya Zalesnaya

Kseniya, a backend developer, was attracted to WOVN because it was a place where she could be herself, and wouldn’t be judged by her coloured hair, piercing, or tattoos. She found that flexibility extended to how they work, and people strived to create an emotionally supportive workplace too.

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Photo of Torkel Berli

As a developer, Torkel liked making improvements to processes for things like documentation and meetings. So when he was asked to become a product owner, he seized the opportunity to improve how WOVN develops software.

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