Global payments made simple.

KOMOJU is the leading cross-border payment gateway for Japan. We power payments for companies like video game distribution platform Steam and the popular mobile app TikTok. Today we help thousands of merchants by providing them with the payment infrastructure they need through developer-friendly API’s to integrations on popular platforms like Shopify and Wix; we help our merchants grow in all markets they are expanding.

Developer-centric, inclusive culture

You will work with other engineers in a developer-centric and inclusive culture where engineers have a say in both product and technical decisions. The culture is largely self-organizing, which means engineers have both a stake and ownership in what they work on. Engineers play to their strengths, but are also able to invest in areas where they want to grow within the team. At KOMOJU, you are the main driver behind your growth and position in the company.

International at our core

Around half of our team members come from outside Japan. English is the primary language used within our engineering team, and throughout the company, many people are bilingual.

Being an international company, we know the importance of bilingualism. We offer all employees a choice between optional English and Japanese lessons to help create a culture of diversity and ensure smooth collaboration across teams.

Passionate about technology

Developers at KOMOJU are passionate about their craft. To foster innovation, we have a monthly open hack day, where you can work on whatever you want. It could be trying a new programming language or tool, fixing a long-standing annoyance or something fun and experimental, like building a game!

Policies

Remote Work
  • We still have an office which you can use if you’d like to, but we don’t mandate that you come to it.
  • You can also work up to three months per year from abroad.
Holidays
  • Starting from 10 days of annual leave.
  • An extra paid holiday on your birthday.
  • 5 extra vacation days that can be used during the summer months, and another 5 days of year-end holidays.
Working Hours
  • Flextime system, with core hours from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
  • When you’re working outside of Japan, we offer some additional flexibility, but are still looking for some overlap with Japanese business hours.

Open Jobs at KOMOJU

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Developer stories

Head of Customer Engineering Makoto Mizukami describes the unconventional candidates his unique team is looking for.

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Muhammad Denaw, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Komoju, talks about his work and shares how Komoju's trust and support propelled him to a promotion.

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Nicole joined KOMOJU in 2020, and worked her way up to be technical lead of the merchant management team. She shares her journey, how KOMOJU supported her career growth and how the company is adapting to its growing needs.

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Becoming CTO of KOMOJU

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After graduating from university, Richard came to Japan and found a job as a software developer. Eventually he joined KOMOJU, where he rose to the role of CTO.

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Kazunori initially joined KOMOJU as a web application engineer, but by identifying problems he wanted to fix, his role shifted first to VP of Infrastructure, and then VP of Payment Products.

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Nigel was fresh out of college when he joined KOMOJU as a developer. He's now risen to tech lead, where he's helped build out their payment platform while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

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