Experienced Front-end Web Engineer

Tokyo
Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
Full-time
February 20, 2024

At Scoville, we integrate strategy, design and technical development to create products and services that delight our audiences.

We are hiring an experienced Front-end Web Engineer. We focus on developing new cross-industry products and we are looking to expand our teams to help us bring these new products to market. We're looking for people who share our aptitude for work to help us develop smart and well designed applications for our clients.

What you will do

This is a hands-on technical role, day to day activities include:

Delivering working web-based software
Giving advice on technology adoption and selection as it pertains to web solutions
Influence and guide the direction of the web-based solutions and ramp up the rest of the team’s web knowledge

What we can expect from you

English language proficiency (no Japanese required)
Hold a degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
5+ years recent commercial programming with a strong emphasis towards delivering front-end web solutions
Expert understanding of a wide variety of web technologies, how to design and build websites and web based applications
Expert understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript, HTML, CSS (ideally tailwind)
Expert understanding of Single Page Applications (SPA) using React.js
Experience working with UX Designers & exposure to tools such as Figma
Able to collaborate with designers to design scalable UI components as part of a design system
Experience with modern frontend development and practices as well as testing frameworks

Bonus Points

Expert understanding of Static Site Generation and Server Side Rendering (we workwith Next.js)
Experience with AWS Services (we use many different AWS Services)
Experience with Containerization (we use Docker & Kubernetes)
Japanese language proficiency

What You Can Expect from Us

At Scoville, we value the importance of our employees' healthy work-life balance and a diverse multicultural environment. The following benefits are available:

¥8 - 12 million/year (negotiable based on experience)
20+ paid days off per year
Flexible work hours, opportunity to work remotely
Social and health insurance
Commuting subsidy and work equipment provided
An international team of talented and engaged creators who will value your input
Visa sponsorship (after 6-month trial period)

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About Scoville

Through our interdisciplinary and methodological approach we’re innovating businesses and individuals alike to compete in the global economy.

We are developing web-based HR products, cross-industry AI, IoT, Robotics, Cloud & Big Data solutions to surpass Customer business objectives and exceed Customer expectations. Today, we already work in a range of Industries such as Human Resources, Hospitality, Education, Health Care, Warehousing & Inventory, and Health & Fitness.

We focus on developing new products in the field of Web/AI/Machine Learning/IoT/Cloud/Big Data both for existing & new Customers, as well as R&D towards future product development. We are collating a diverse range of Intellectual Property (IP) - skills, experience and proprietary technology artefacts that can be leveraged to build out best in class technical services & products.

Today, we are primarily focused on Business to Business (B2B) opportunities but are receptive to delivering Business to Customer (B2C) solutions based on Intellectual Property (IP) and market opportunities.

We are looking to expand our department to help us bring new products and services to market, and expand our portfolio of Customers as well as speed our pipeline of proprietary Intellectual Property (IP).