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Job ID : 1553201 Date Updated : July 28th, 2025
Not Required Japanese

[Not Required Japanese] Senior Backend Engineer / Tokyo Exclusive job

Location Tokyo - 23 Wards, Setagaya-ku
Job Type Permanent Full-time
Salary 8 million yen ~ 12 million yen

Work Style

Casual Clothing Flex Time

Job Description

About Organization

Our campany CPaaS platform provides communication API’s to global and domestic enterprises in Japan over various channels such as SMS, Voice, Email & RCS. We design and develop CPaaS services for enterprises. The CPaaS team is a dynamic and innovative team dedicated into providing high quality communication services to Enterprises. We are looking for a talented and senior Backend Engineer to join our growing team and contribute to the development of cutting-edge backend applications.

 

Job Duties

  • Be a part of the our campany hands-on core development/engineering Backend team. Work closely with development team in agile manner to release new features and enhancement for CPaaS backend service.

  • Develop backend services, ensuring seamless integration with frontend services. Implement and maintain high-quality code, following best practices and coding standards. Optimize service performance, ensuring right metrics are exposed to monitor and anomaly detection.

  • Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.

  • Collaborate with SRE, frontend engineers to develop and implement prototypes.

  • Troubleshoot and resolve backed end issues, bugs, and performance bottlenecks.

  • Participate in Agile/Scrum development methodologies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

  • Work in a global team spread across Japan, India and UK in different time zones. Open to off hour availability due to work as required.

  • Make best use of productivity improvement tool such as JIRA & confluence. Participate in daily team huddle and present work status for visibility. Actively contribute to overall improvement projects within team.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and translate them into features.

General Requirements

Minimum Experience Level Over 6 years
Career Level Mid Career
Minimum English Level Business Level (Amount Used: English Only)
Minimum Japanese Level None
Minimum Education Level Associate Degree/Diploma
Visa Status Permission to work in Japan required

Required Skills

Minimum Qualification

  • Currently residing in Japan. *Applications from outside Japan will not be accepted.

  • B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science with at least 6+ years of proven hands-on core backend SW engineering expertise in Java (v17+).

  • Proven experience in developing and optimizing data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and analyzing large data sets while using modern data tools and ensuring data integrity, consistency, and quality across all systems.

  • Experience in developing and maintaining reporting systems that provide actionable insights to stakeholders while collaborating with product & business team to enhance data reporting capabilities.

  • Experience with real-time data processing and stream processing frameworks. Database experience in ELK/Kafka.

  • Experience in a team lead role - an advantage.

  • Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). Cloud base deployments expertise with experience in continuous integration/continuous delivery systems. Jenkins/Docker/Kubernetes, AWS - an advantage

  • Well versed with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Strong understanding and experience in low level networking & inter-networking. Experience in SaaS, API based, communication systems.

  • Extensive knowledge and experience in Linux

  • Experience with developing high profile production systems with 24/7 availability, low-latency and highly available redundant solutions.

  • Ability to present concepts and architectures effectively to the team.

  • Problem solver and high troubleshooting skills

  • Ability to work autonomously and collaborate as a team player.

  • Ability to work as a member of a big remote team spread across the globe.

  • Strong communication and leadership skills, with proactive communication internally and externally to address any blockers.

  • Ability to take full responsibility for a task or feature, delivering it independently with high quality from start to finish

  • Experience in writing unit tests and integration tests on a large scale

  • Experience in conducting large-scale refactors on a fast-moving product.

  • Understanding accessibility and security compliance.

  • Implement analytics solutions to monitor system performance, user behavior, and key metrics.

  • Experience in building reporting and analytics as part of product feature.

 

【Required Qualifications】

  • TOEIC 600 or higher
  • Equivalent English proficiency and skills corresponding to TOEIC 600

Job Location

  • Tokyo - 23 Wards, Setagaya-ku
  • Tokyu Denentoshi Line, Futako Tamagawa Station

Work Conditions

Job Type Permanent Full-time
Salary 8 million yen ~ 12 million yen
Salary Bonuses Bonuses included in indicated salary.
Work Hours 9:00~17:30 1 hour break *Mondays: 8:00-16:30 
Holidays Sat, Sun, national holyday Summer&Winter vacation paid holid etc
Industry Communication

Job Category

  • IT, Web and Communication > Web Developer
  • IT, Web and Communication > Project Manager
  • IT, Web and Communication > Other (IT, Web and Communication)

Company Details

Company Type Large Company (more than 300 employees)
Non-Japanese Ratio Majority Non-Japanese