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Job ID : 1566197 Date Updated : November 20th, 2025

Data Engineer AI Division

Hiring Company Delivering AI-driven investment and financial solutions company
Location Tokyo - 23 Wards, Chiyoda-ku
Job Type Permanent Full-time
Salary 8 million yen ~ 12 million yen

Work Style

Casual Clothing Side Business Ok Minimal Overtime Flex Time

Job Description

Job Description

As a Data Engineer in our AI Division, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and high-performance production systems for financial data and AI-driven investment products. You will work closely with data scientists and other engineers to manage end-to-end data pipelines and contribute to product innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain production-grade data pipelines and systems for financial data.
  • Collect requirements and manage end-to-end data workflows from ingestion to shutdown.
  • Collaborate with data scientists to implement and optimize data pipelines.
  • Evaluate and integrate new data sources, negotiate onboarding, and ensure compliance with data usage licenses.
  • Assess new technologies and drive innovation to enhance products.
  • Improve and maintain existing products and infrastructure.

 

General Requirements

Minimum Experience Level Over 6 years
Career Level Mid Career
Minimum English Level Business Level (Amount Used: English usage about 50%)
Minimum Japanese Level Daily Conversation
Minimum Education Level Bachelor's Degree
Visa Status Permission to work in Japan required

Required Skills

Required Qualifications

  • Japanese (reading and writing, JLPT N3 or above).
  • Residing in Japan.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field with at least 5 years of practical experience.
  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, from low-level to high-level system structures.
  • Proficiency in Python, including Pandas and NumPy.

Preferred / Advantageous Skills:

  • Experience with big data and out-of-core processing.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure and DevOps practices.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Experience with data pipelines and workflow engines (Airflow, ArgoWorkflow, Prefect).
  • Software engineering experience.
  • Database management and monitoring knowledge.
  • Business-level Japanese and English skills.
  • Familiarity with Golang, Rust, or Java.
  • Financial data handling experience (FX, stocks, ETFs).
  • Streaming data processing and protocol experience.
  • Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog) and ML frameworks (scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Chainer).
  • Project and team management experience.
  • Terraform experience for managing AWS resources (RDS, S3, Athena, EC2, EKS, Lambda, VPC, DynamoDB, Redshift).

Job Location

  • Tokyo - 23 Wards, Chiyoda-ku

Work Conditions

Job Type Permanent Full-time
Salary 8 million yen ~ 12 million yen
Work Hours 9:00 – 18:00
Holidays 土日祝日、年末年始および会社指定日
Industry Internet, Web Services

Job Category

Company Details

Company Type Small/Medium Company (300 employees or less)
Non-Japanese Ratio About half Japanese