Experienced Mobile Application Engineer

Scoville Tokyo March 19 2026
  • 💴 ¥8M ~ ¥12M annually
  • 🏡
    Fully remote
    From Japan
  • 🌏
    Apply from abroad
    Relocate to Japan
  • 💬
    Conversational Japanese
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Intermediate level
    Unspecified years of experience
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About Scoville

Scoville Tokyo

Web-based HR products, cross-industry AI, IoT, Robotics, and Cloud & Big Data solutions. We work in a range of industries such as Human Resources, Hospitality, Education, Health Care, Warehousing & Inventory, and Health & Fitness.

Key benefits

  • International and English-friendly
  • Rapidly expanding
  • Free weekly Japanese lessons

About the position

In this position, you will be responsible for the development of a BtoC mobile application for supporting students’ club activities in universities all over Japan.

Responsibilities

  • Build, ship, and maintain mobile features for iOS and Android (React Native).
  • Own features from discovery and technical design through implementation, testing, release, and monitoring.
  • Implement clean, testable architecture and maintain high code quality through reviews and documentation.
  • Integrate with GraphQL APIs and handle data persistence, offline caching, deep links, and background tasks.
  • Ensure performance, security, accessibility, and localization best practices.
  • Write automated tests (unit, integration, UI) and contribute to CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
  • Monitor analytics and crash reports; use data to inform improvements.
  • Collaborate with designers to implement pixel-perfect UIs and delightful interactions.
  • Support App Store and Google Play submissions, release notes, and rollout strategies.

Requirements

  • Professional experience building and shipping mobile apps used in production
  • Proficiency in React Native.
  • Expert understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript, HTML, CSS (ideally tailwind).
  • Strong understanding of mobile architectures and patterns, async programming and state management.
  • API integration and data persistence (GraphQL, JSON, WebSockets; Core Data/Room/Realm/SQLite).
  • Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative workflows (PRs, code reviews).
  • Familiarity with release tooling and app store processes (App Store Connect, Google Play Console; Firebase/GitHub Actions or similar).
  • Knowledge of security and privacy practices (secure storage, keychain/keystore, OWASP MASVS considerations).
  • Clear communication and collaboration skills with a product mindset.
  • Able to collaborate with designers to design scalable UI components as part of a design system.
  • We use both English and Japanese in the team. Must be fluent in one language and at least conversational in the other.

Nice to haves

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

  • Meaningful experience with a functional backend language (such as Elixir, Ruby on Rails).
  • Experience with AWS Services and Firebase.
  • Experience in database development using Postgres.

Compensation

¥8,000,000 ~ ¥12,000,000 annually.

Negotiable based on experience.

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