Front-end Engineer | Wellness and Fitness Service

【About the Company】

The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation. When Konosuke Matsushita founded Matsushita Electric (now Panasonic) in 1918, he set a goal of supporting people's lives and contributing to the development of society. Under this philosophy, Panasonic has continued to reform everyday household chores for over 100 years, and has also established research institutes that focus on happiness, prosperity, and the realization of a better society.

The company is a startup from Silicon Valley and shares the same philosophy with Panasonic.
By "creating a new style of mutual support for families living in the present," the company contributes to the realization of Panasonic's great vision, "Become the Power of Happiness.

The company's mission is to "continue to create days of hope so that families living today can be happy". Founded in Silicon Valley, the company collaborates on projects in the United States and Japan. Employees from various backgrounds, including technology companies such as Google, Apple, and MicroSoft, as well as venture companies such as Nest, Waymo, Thumbtack, and Casper, work together to develop completely new products. Let's create a better society together!

【Job Description】 

Led by Yoko Matsuoka, an executive officer at Panasonic Holdings Corporation and an AI pioneer who has held key positions at Google, Apple, and other tech companies, the company is a wellbeing company that helps busy families prioritize the happiness of the whole family and spend time with each other. Japanese families today are under pressure to juggle work, family, and childcare all at the same time.
While the development of information technology has made family life more convenient, it has also created new tasks. In addition to the common household chores such as cooking, laundry, and cleaning, families with children are kept busy every day with a variety of other tasks (to-dos) that are not always apparent to the naked eye.
The company was born from the idea of "creating a new style of mutual support for families living in the present". The company aims to "foster a new lifestyle culture in which people can rely on each other" by providing a new solution: a family concierge service.　

●Recruitment Background
This September marks the first anniversary of the launch of "Yohana Membership" in Japan. Targeting working couples who are busy 24 hours a day with multiple roles such as child-rearing, housework, and work, it is a next-generation concierge service that provides support for various tasks so that they can be kinder to their families and themselves, and maintain a relaxed mindset.

Since this service is mainly an app-based service, the expansion of the service will require more dynamic and timely implementation into the system, which led to the recruitment of this position.

●Your Role
You will be responsible for the development of marketing pages including LPs in the front-end area of the service, as well as improving the web application used by users in accordance with local needs. The web application is being developed in cooperation with the U.S., and you will be expected to communicate with the engineers in the U.S. when making improvements.

●Responsibilities
Working closely with the marketing team in Japan and the senior engineers in Silicon Valley, the team will contribute to the expansion of the service in Japan through the following activities in the front-end area of the service.

・Implement marketing initiatives on public marketing pages and e-commerce stores (e.g. Yohana.jp) through web application modifications
・Work to improve web applications to increase the efficiency of internal business processes

●What you will get from this job
・You will learn about Silicon Valley trends and improve your engineering skills by working with a team of senior U.S. engineers.

●Workplace Atmosphere
・There are over 80 employees, mainly in their 20's to 40's.
・With careful communication, they build a way of working that truly respects teammates.
・You can grow and develop through friendly competition with excellent colleagues!

【Working conditions & treatment】

Flextime System

・Saturday/Sunday/National Holiday
・Annual Paid Leave
・New Year Holidays
・Parental Leave
・Congratulations & Condolence Leave
・Summer Holiday

・Full Social Insurance
・Commuting Allowance

【Required】
・Experience (2-3+ years) developing web applications using React
・Knowledge of TypeScript and JavaScript programming languages
・Ability to develop maintainable, scalable, and performant software
・Ability to write code that is automatically tested by testing frameworks
・Ability to work with cross-functional team members to translate and evolve product requirements into functional software features
・Ability to foresee the technical challenges of implementing new software features and the opportunities presented by web technologies
・Business level English proficiency

【Preferred】
・Experience developing consumer web applications
・Experience with Next.js or other SSR frameworks
・Experience working on full stack development or developing back-end cloud services
・Experience supporting e-commerce purchasing flows in web applications or back-end cloud services
・Basic knowledge of Kotlin/Java
・Experience with Protocol Buffers and gRPC

【Personality and Competency】
・Communication skills to involve business managers and related departments
・Driving force to work in a fluid environment
・Ability to constantly search for better actions