Front-End Engineer

Job Description

About the Company

Chemican is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps manufacturers manage chemical substances in their products. Japan’s manufacturing industry—often called the backbone of the country—still relies heavily on manual and specialist-driven chemical management, which is complex and under-digitized.

Mismanagement of chemicals can cause pollution, health hazards, and accidents. To prevent such risks, companies are legally required to accurately track, manage, and evaluate chemical substances in their products. However, many still depend on manual workflows handled by a few experts.

Our mission is to transform this situation. We provide Chemican, a chemical management cloud SaaS, that supports DX (digital transformation) in this blue ocean market by automating and streamlining chemical substance management. We aim to promote a new, safer, and smarter way of working worldwide.

 

About the Product

Chemican leverages advanced technology and industry expertise to deliver a cutting-edge SaaS solution. Trusted by leading Japanese corporations, we are now gearing up for international expansion.

Our platform addresses inefficiencies in chemical substance management, replacing analog, manual processes with streamlined digital workflows.

 

Role Overview

As chemical management regulations tighten globally—especially with Japan’s Industrial Safety and Health Act revision from 2024—demand for Chemican is rapidly increasing.

We’re looking for an engineer to join our team to help design, develop, and maintain Chemican’s web application, working alongside our CTO. This role offers the chance to build secure, reliable features that scale domestically and internationally.

You’ll be involved in planning, design, development, and operation, with opportunities to use machine learning and generative AI for extracting and analyzing hazardous substance data from Safety Data Sheets (SDS).

 

What You’ll Work On

• Develop new features for Chemican SaaS
• Build chemical regulation screening functions
• Implement chemical risk assessment features
• Extract and analyze hazardous substance data from SDS using ML and generative AI
• Develop features for global market readiness

 

Tech Stack & Team

• Team: 3 engineers currently, expanding soon
• Languages/Frameworks: Go, Python, Vue.js, TypeScript
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Tools: GitHub, Slack

 

Why Join Us

• Participate in client meetings and develop with direct user feedback
• Be part of a fast-growing product preparing for global expansion
• Challenge yourself across programming, infrastructure, and research development based on your interests
• Fully remote work enables flexible work-life balance

 

Qualifications

Must-Haves

• 3+ years of professional experience developing web applications for in-house products
• Strong knowledge of web application development and a proactive mindset
• Solid understanding of secure programming practices for web applications
• Experience working in a team environment using version control systems like Git
• No chemistry knowledge required. Team members without chemistry backgrounds are actively contributing and thriving

 

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience developing with Go, Python, Vue.js, TypeScript, Next.js, or React
• Experience building AI- or machine learning-powered services
• Knowledge of information security best practices
• Hands-on experience with development on GCP
• Experience developing B2B SaaS products
• Experience leading development teams or managing projects
• Additional experience with AI or machine learning development

 

Portrait of a Person

Ideal Candidate

• Passionate about solving meaningful problems that help prevent pollution, health issues, and industrial accidents
• Eager to bring new ideas into the world and impact society at scale
• Curious and proactive about learning beyond your specialty
• Self-motivated and able to work independently in a remote environment
• Interested in helping a Japanese startup expand globally

 

Salary

¥8,000,000 – ¥15,000,000 annually