Platform Engineer

★Platform Engineer | Featured Venture Company

• Japanese: Business Level Required (N2 Level)

◆ Location: Tokyo / Osaka

◆ Flextime & Hybrid Work

◆ Global Team

◆ Annual salary: 6.5 million yen - 10 million yen

-------------【About the company】-------------

The company is a manufacturer of groupware, a tool designed to foster teamwork through information sharing. They provide end-to-end service, handling everything from product planning and development to sales, operation, and support in-house.

The mission is to improve teamwork in organizations around the world. They develop groupware that supports thorough information sharing, smooth communication, and improves individual learning and satisfaction. Their products are used by a wide variety of organizations—including companies, local governments, universities, hospitals, and NPOs—to manage schedules, customer information, and other crucial business data. To date, they have contributed to improving teamwork for over 12 million users worldwide.

In addition to nine locations across Japan, the company has been expanding globally since it first entered Shanghai, China, in 2007. It has since grown into the United States, Southeast Asia, and Oceania, and now operates from seven international locations. The challenge to become "world number one" is truly underway.

■Groupware Business

The company develops, provides, and supports tools that foster teamwork through information sharing and communication.

■Main Products

・Cloud business application builder

・Groupware for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs)

・Groupware for large and medium-sized enterprises

・Shared email management system

-------------【 Job Description】-------------

【Job Overview】

This product plays the role of spreading teamwork globally to achieve the company's corporate philosophy. It serves as a Business Improvement Platform supporting every type of work, for every person, in every industry, and is currently used by over 38,000 customers both domestically and internationally.

While the product is highly regarded in Japan as a B2B SaaS originating here, it is merely one of many startups globally. There is still much work to be done to grow the product into one used worldwide.

The product's development organization exceeds 100 people in size. Teams are structured and responsibilities are divided based on domain and technology area. Essential to customer delivery are the mechanisms for operating the product on private/public clouds and the necessary backend services that support the service. By promoting Service Platform Development, the company aims to build a mechanism that allows customers to use the product with confidence and enables value to be delivered quickly.

The company looks forward to applications from individuals who resonate with its corporate philosophy and are willing to join in the development of this product.

【Responsibilities】

You will be responsible for the development and operation of the platform and backend services that support the product. You will communicate with the product development teams to resolve development complexities, identify and correct operational issues, and more.

Examples of activities include:

・Design and operation of cloud and development infrastructure utilized in common by internal teams and product development teams.

・Driving development efficiency and standardization through IaC (Infrastructure as Code), CI/CD, Kubernetes, and other tools.

・Supporting the improvement of operational challenges in collaboration with the product development teams.

・Creating mechanisms for monitoring, security, and reliability enhancement.

【Development Environment (Example)】

Backend Services: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Go

Infrastructure: Kubernetes-based private cloud (for the domestic market), with AWS used for some features

Monitoring: Grafana, PagerDuty, etc.

-------------【Requirements】-------------

【Required】

Empathy for the corporate philosophy

5+ years of web application development experience

Experience developing web applications using JVM languages such as Java/Kotlin

Experience developing and operating containerized applications for production workloads

【Preferred】

Experience building systems using Kubernetes

Understanding and practical experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code

Experience leading teams and projects

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【Working Time 】

Flextime System

【Welfare/Holidays】

Remote work allowance (5,000/month)

Employee stock ownership plan (company matches purchase of up to 10% of paycheck)

Skill development support/Language Learning Support (120,000 yen a year)

New tech gear

Book Purchasing

Commuter allowance

Comprehensive health and social insurance

Parental Leave

Relocation and Visa Sponsorship to Japan offered

20 days of paid leave

5 days of Proactive Personal Leave

5 days of Family Care / Personal Sick Leave

Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday), Public holidays in Japan

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