We are looking for a Backend / Full Stack developer for our client with 5+ years of relevant experience to enhance their E-commerce app. Successful candidates will join a highly skilled team and should be able to help define, clarify, develop, test, and deploy high-quality full stack solutions.
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Backend / Full Stack Engineer
- DOE
- Contract
- Tokyo
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Industry
Technology/Online, Automotive
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Experience
5+ Years
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Career Level
Mid Career
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Offered Salary
Depends on Experience
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Qualification
Bachelor's Degree
Job Overview
Responsibilities
• Work in a team with proper engineering practices through design, code review, and pair programming
• Implement new API and UI features/architectures in cooperation with other team members, including those in our machine learning team
• Write clean, scalable, readable, and testable code, and deploy to production often
• Communicate effectively inside and outside the team
• Developing scalable and high performance applications that can run in Cloud/On-Prem environments.
• Create proper documentation for any features as needed
• Be able to effectively work in a team while also contributing to team’s productivity
• Recognize code inefficiencies and make suggestions for improvements, if applicable.
Required Skills
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a similar technical discipline
• Experience in system design, development system which handles massive amount of transactions or requires scalability
• Strong coding and testing skills in TypeScript/Javascript, Python, Node.js etc
• Experienced with GraphQL API and API development in general
• Well versed with Databases like PostGres and Redis
• Familiarity with at least one testing framework and general testing methodologies ( eg Jest, Cypress, Performance and stress testing etc )
• Good communication skills in order to understand requirements from end users, product managers, technical team members.
• Experienced with CI/CD systems and can develop basic build/test pipelines
• Familiar with System monitoring and Observability etc
Preferred Skills
• Basic Japanese language ability.
• Experience refactoring and improving existing codebase
• Docker , Kubernetes, Istio, Helm and related skills
• Familiar with Cloud Service Providers eg AWS, GCP, Azure etc
• Software security practices and can implement security fixes
• Familiar with Distributed systems architecture eg Message-queue architectures
• Front End Development Experience and experience with Frameworks like React, Next JS etc
Areas We Recruit In
Ahead provides a total talent sourcing solution in all types of industries which fulfills all your requirement needs. We provide integrated sourcing and collaborative screening through our solution.
- Life Sciences(1)
- IT(12)
- West Japan(0)
- Ecommerce(10)
- Insurance(5)
- Consulting(6)
- Internal IT(4)
- Finance(0)
- Contract(2)
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