Platform Engineer(Backend)｜Ranked as Best Startup in Japan 2020

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Job Description

【About the company ...】

The company has engaged in various industry AI projects. We have clients in a wide range of industries, such as finance, manufacturing, retail, food and drink, education, healthcare, manufacturers and IT communications, with hundreds of cases. The company is rated as one of the Best Ventures to Work in Japan.

Based on the knowledge and know-how of each industry obtained from this wide network, we promise innovative proposals that exceed the industry and precedent. Many intelligent talents in the world are gathering into the company now.

【 Job Description 】

【Mission】
Our mission is to solve modern social issues using the power of artificial intelligence. We develop various in-house services in the areas of medicine, finance, robotics, HR, etc.

【Role】
・Develop web application products on top of our machine learning backend
・Architect, design, and implement end-user branded web applications ( backend)
・Develop and maintain core web infrastructure underlying all products (API server, user identity, payments, access control, etc..)

【Deveopment Environment】
The following deveopment environment is an example. The deveopment environment is selected to be suitable each product, and may be changed in the future.

- Backend : Node.js / Python / etc.
- Frontend : React / Vue.js / etc.
- Database : PostgreSQL / MongoDB / etc.
- Platforms : AWS EKS / Nomad / etc.

【 Requirements 】

■Minimum Skill/Experience
- Experience with Web App development experience more than 3 years
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure, etc...)
- Good understanding of application and cloud security
- Strong knowledge of languages and frameworks such as Node.js, Python, React, TypeScript
- Strong knowledge of networks and databases
- Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures
- Business English skill and enthusiasm to learn Japanese skill

■Preferred Skill/Experience
- Experience with working at startups
- Experience with Agile/Scrum software development
- Experience with competitive coding sites like @AtCoder, LeetCode, and HackerRank
- Strong work initiative

■What You can Experience
・Experience to develop challenging products to solve social issues in a wide range of business domains from scratch.
・Skills to develop products that can be used in the field while incorporating not only individual AI technologies and Machine Learning, but also peripheral and applied technologies.
・Exciting development process which AI engineers and software engineers collaborate to find the best solution by discussing with experts in various fields within the company, such as how to provide data to AI components, architecture considering algorithm characteristics, and visualization of learning and prediction results.
・Discussions with experts in various fields within the company, and a process in which AI engineers and software engineers work together to find the best product, including how to hold data in AI components, architecture considering algorithm characteristics, and visualization of learning and prediction results.
・Practical understanding of the latest machine learning and Deep Learning

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【 Working time 】

Flextime System

【 Welfare 】

・Doctoral Program Support System
・Various Social Insurance (Employee Pension, Health Insurance, Employment Insurance, Labor Accident Insurance)
・Commuting allowance (up to 35,000 yen / month)
・Business trip allowance
・Medical checkup
・Online medical consultation (first call)
・Book purchase (full company burden)
・Study session (once / weekly, during business hours)

【 Holiday 】
・Full holiday 2 day system (Saturday / Sunday) holidays
・Annual holiday over 120 days
・Refreshment holidays (5 days a weekday)
・New Year holidays
・Annual paid leave
・Return vacation (2 days a year: when family lives in a remote area over 1000 km)
・Condition leave (during trial period: 3 days)
・Marriage leave (person, child)
・Maternity leave
・Nursing care leave

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