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Job Description
You will be involved with the development of, and operational work for, the LINE client and LINE Family App clients. We will assign the project to you after inquiring about your experience as an engineer and future career preferences.
Examples of Work
- Development of sticker/theme/emoji features in the LINE app.
- Development of LINE Family Apps (e.g. “LINE Sticker Maker”).
- Collaborating with the Planning and Design teams to bring ideas to life (e.g. through coding, creating unit tests, etc.).
- Performing app profiling and improving performance.
- Improving and maintaining a CI environment that supports stable development.
- Improving code quality through code reviews.
- UI/UX improvement.
- Swift, Objective-C, Fastlane, XcodeGen, Bazel, Thrift, etc.
- This position requires no prior Japanese language skills. We have a robust English support team and there are many English-speaking employees. Successful applicants without Japanese language skills will be required to attend a Japanese language course for at least the first three months to one year after joining LINE Fukuoka. The language course is sponsored by LINE and is an excellent opportunity to acquire the language.
Requirement
Required Skills
- 3 years of experience in iOS native app development or equivalent experience in developing large scale B-to-C services
- Professional knowledge of at least one programming language.
- Basic knowledge in computer science (e.g. algorithm, data structure, asynchronous I/O, network).
- Work experience using version control systems (VCS), dependency management systems, and continuous-integration systems (CI).
- Communication ability in Japanese or English.
- Motivation to learn Japanese.
- Web/Native hybrid applications.
- UI/UX design and implementation (e.g. custom views and interactions).
- Experience in the coaching, management and/or leadership of a technical team.
- Open-source software development experience and/or participation in open source communities is also a plus.
- Strong interest and ability to learn any new technical topic.
Working Location
LINE Fukuoka Corporation JRJP HAKATA Building, 12FL, 8-1 Hakataeki Chuogai, Hakata, Fukuoka, 812-0012, Japan
Salary
Fixed annual salary + Incentive (twice/year)
Other details to be discussed during interviews.
Salary Review
Twice/YearSelection Flow
About LINE Fukuoka
LINE Fukuoka's mission is to continue taking on new challenges and create new values (WOW) for the world.
By creating new values from Fukuoka, we aim to be a company with the imaginative powers to generate new paradigm shifts on a global scale that can help both individuals and organization grow at the same time.
LINE Fukuoka Engineering DepartmentLINE Fukuoka Engineering Department develops a wide variety of LINE family services such as LINE STORE, LINE Creators Market, LINE Sticker Maker, LINE Securities, and LINE part-time job.
An organization of about 100 people has 8 development teams dedicated to service development and 6 specialized teams with specific professional skills. There are engineers in various positions such as application development, infrastructure, SRE, and SET.
LINE Fukuoka has many programs that support employees grow, providing an environment where they can take on new challenges. We have an environment where the employees can work with peace of mind.
※ LINE Fukuoka Corporation (“LINE Fukuoka”) changed its trade name to LY Communications as of October 1, 2023.
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