Back-end Engineer (In-house Service) | Global EC Platform

【 About the company 】

■Business
Cross-border EC Support Business
　- Overseas delivery/purchase agency
　- Overseas customer support agency
EC production, operation and maintenance business
　- EC production, operation and maintenance for domestic customers
　- Overseas EC production, operation and maintenance
Overseas Marketing Business
　- Video Marketing

Vision: Bringing Japan more to the world.

Almost 20 years have passed since the birth of EC. It is obvious that the world has become a convenient place to purchase a wide variety of products over the Internet. The global EC growth rate has been increasing year by year at 15%/year, and is expected to increase by 22% to 3.53 trillion dollars (about 377 trillion yen) by 2011. In Japan, the growth rate is 6%/year, or about 20 trillion yen.

Compared to the global EC growth rate, Japan's growth rate is somewhat slower. What is the difference from the global EC growth rate? It is because we are not able to respond to cross-border EC. The global EC growth rate continues to grow in the cross-border EC field. In the case of Japan, there are many barriers that must be overcome in order to expand overseas, such as language barriers, logistics/delivery barriers, payment barriers, and branding barriers, causing Japan to lag behind.

The company aims to overcome these barriers and deliver high-quality Japanese products and services to the rest of the world.

【 Job Description】

You will lead the development of the service as a backend engineer for the "EC platform service for overseas users" developed in-house.

You will be a member of our development team and will be responsible for technical decision making in the back-end area, design reviews to ensure quality, productivity improvement, and recruiting activities.
*The final decision on where you will be assigned will be made after a casual interview and selection process, based on your preferences and match with the company.
*The company will provide details of the new service during the selection process.

You will be responsible for design, code ownership, and training of team members, including the back-end, as a lead engineer in the future as the company's "software engineer" ideal is to solve problems without being confined to a specific job function.

【Responsibilities】
・Back-end development of "EC platform service for overseas users
・Requirement definition ~ operation/test for new/existing function development
・Investigation of API linkage with external services - Development for data linkage
・Team development with offshore development partners
・Provide instructions to partners and assign roles and responsibilities
・Formulation of development rules (branching strategy, etc.)

【Development Environment】
Languages: TypeScript, Next.js, and
Frameworks：Node.js, React.js
Others: Rest/GraphQL
EC Package: Medusa
DB: MySQL, PostgreSQL
Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, ECS, Lmbda, S3, WAF, SES, etc...)
Source code management: GitHub
Communication tool: Slack

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【1】Corporate Philosophy
The CEO himself graduated from an American university, and the background of the company's founding is that he felt the need to send things that his friends wanted in Japan upon request, or conversely, to have things sent to Japan from the U.S.
Since the CEO's strong original experience is the foundation of the company, he is highly passionate about the business and pursues both "philosophy" (aspiration) and "profit" (business), and the environment allows him to pursue both without being biased toward one or the other.

【2】People/Culture
The atmosphere of the meetings is good, with smooth and frank discussions.
The representative comes from an engineering background, so it is easy to discuss development issues with him.
From Day 1 of the service release, there is a policy of both Dev and Ops, focusing on service quality and user experience.

【3】Company and Business (PROFESSION)
The company is challenging the global cross-border EC market, which is currently worth 100 trillion yen and will be worth 770 trillion yen by 2027.
As a "software engineer", you can work on full-stack development and acquire a wide range of technical knowledge.
Not limited to a closed technological field, but encouraged to take on the challenge of new technologies
Possibility to work on both in-house and outsourced services.
You can be involved in the 0 → 1 phase as it is planned to develop new products in the future.

【4】Working style and benefits (PRIVILEGE)
As a small team, face-to-face communication is important, and is encouraged.
Evaluation system for management and specialists has been established, and you can take a career step according to your preference/experience.

■Recruitment Background
Increase in number of employees due to organizational strengthening

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■Holidays
Two days off per week
Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays
Year-end and New Year vacations
Summer vacation (conditions apply)
*127 days off per year including the above

・Other
Annual paid leave
Special leave (for weddings, funerals, and ceremonial occasions)
Maternity leave
Childcare leave
Family care leave
Other days designated by the company

■Welfare
Full social insurance (unemployment insurance, workers' accident compensation insurance, employee pension, and health insurance)
Transportation expenses paid (up to 50,000 yen per month)

【Required】
Experience in web application development (approx. 3+ years)
Experience in development of static languages such as Node.js, Go, Java, etc.
Experience in design to operation

【Preferred】
Experience in working with HTML, CSS, and other front-end technologies
Experience in vendor control
English language skills (to the extent possible to gather information online)