Sr. Platform Applications Engineer

  • Tokyo
  • Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
  • Full-time
  • October 17, 2024
Conditions
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Apply from Japan Only
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No relocation to Japan
(No visa sponsorship from overseas)
Requirements
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Language Requirements
Japanese: Not Required 👍
English: Business Level

Peatix is looking for a Platform Applications Engineer to join the team that develops and maintains the technology platform our website and mobile applications run on. You'll be working on foundational features in Peatix's existing code base, as well as helping to plan for the future.

 

Who we need

  • An application engineer who can be productive quickly in a Perl monolith.
  • A great communicator capable of working with a fully distributed team.
  • Someone capable of working autonomously and asynchronously, comfortable with asking questions and pairing with other engineers to build context.

 

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain foundational features like internal APIs, payments, authentication, and authorization.
  • Improve engineering standards and processes.
  • Lead and guide technical decisions with the team.
  • Contribute technical knowledge to conversations about the direction of Peatix's web apps.

 

Requirements

  • You have experience designing architecture for and building interactive web applications.
  • You have worked with Stripe or other payment processing platforms.
  • You like to contribute your opinions on technical feasability and possible implementations of upcoming features.
  • You have a great track record of leading projects and bringing them successfully to the finish line.
  • You know how to write code with an eye on maintenance, scalability, and stability.
  • You like to work as part of a team, with a collaborative mindset.

 

Bonuses

Nice to haves are really just nice to haves, and applicants should apply even if they don’t have them.

  • You have experience with Perl.
  • You have experience designing APIs.
  • You have experience working with Git and GitHub.
  • You are familiar with running and using Docker.
  • You have experience working with AWS.
  • You can communicate in conversational level Japanese or above.

 

Location

  • APAC
  • You'll be working with team members in the United States, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Australia.

 

Who is Peatix

Peatix is a global event registration platform that provides event organizers with powerful tools to create, promote, manage and sell out events of all sizes. Launched in 2011 in Japan, Peatix is now headquartered in New York and has expanded into Singapore and Malaysia.

 

Peatix's goals

At Peatix, we believe we can make a great positive impact by making it easier for people to meet with each other and strengthen their communities. By helping organizers create more and more diverse events for more and more diverse groups of people, we hope to connect people around the world and let people understand each other.

 

Why you should work for Peatix?

Peatix is a customer centric company where we value collaboration, communication, empathy, quality, and shipping. We believe that you'll do better work by being healthier and happier, so we want you to have a life outside of working at Peatix. We encourage you to attend Peatix events as well.

 

Peatix is made up of people of a number of different nationalities and backgrounds. We will continue to be a company that embraces diversity and look forward to applications from people from various backgrounds and lifestyles. Peatix will not discriminate against Peatix employees or applicants based on their age, citizenship, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy status, race, religion, sexual orientation or any other differences.

 

Why you should work with Peatix Engineering?

We're building our teams to be collaborative, focused and healthy. We value inputs and opinions and strive to provide a good balance between user-value delivery and code quality and maintanability. We put a lot of work in supporting growth and skill learning - for both Peatix and Industry standard skills. We like to support our people to grow and achieve.

Peatix is a global event discovery and ticketing platform that connects people to communities through a shared passion for all things similar and different.

Whether you are an aspiring home cook looking for livestream classes from the comforts of your own kitchen, or an entrepreneur striving to connect with communities across the globe, we deliver unique experiences right into the hands of those who seek.

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