Back-End Engineer

Tokyo
Remote OK
Full-time
March 5, 2021

Job Description

We’re looking for passionate engineers who love coding and creating great products. Because we need to evolve fast in a sea with big fish. We are looking for highly ambitious engineers who want to work on major aspects of the Shippio product — from the back-end through to the end user experience.

You will be involved in the design and development of Ruby applications service infrastructure in collaboration with project managers, designers, and front-end engineers.

Responsibilities

You will develop features implemented on Shippio’s web applications.

Design and develop Ruby applications
Product quality improvement through code review and teamwork
Critical analysis
Achieve service compliance, stability, ease of use, and flexibility for continuous improvement

Your Qualifications

Required

2+ years of experience in Back-End application development, and interest in Ruby

Knowledge of UML or any other language to describe a model

Synthetic mind, able to quickly grasp the essence of our business and translate it into a model

Challenger, making small changes having huge impacts

Good intra and inter-team communication skills

Located in Japan

Valid work authorization or a degree in a related field for those requiring visa sponsorship

Business level English

Preferred

Communication skills in Japanese are highly appreciated
Experience with GraphQL
DevOps skills are more than welcomed
Intellectually curious and eager to take on new challenges
Interested in working on B2B development by leveraging your own development experience

Our Current Stack

We have a Ruby + RoR Back-End, deployed on AWS, we use GraphQL for API manipulation and our Front End is in React.js. However we are always looking for opportunities to use new technologies and languages so we would be happy to hear about your favourite technological stack!

Our Ideal Candidate

A person who embodies our core values (Anchors)

Be courageous and decisive. People who aren't afraid to take on challenges and don't let precedent stand in the way of accomplishing goals
Strive for greatness.People who can accept constructive criticism and are willing to continually improve themselves.
Believe in your fellow crewmates.People who enjoy developing as a team. Someone who can help team members grow and learn from them.

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About Shippio

We are a technology company working on digitalizing international trading, and the first digital forwarding company in Japan (aiming to become No. 1 in Asia).

We are building a multi-sided digital platform which allows both customers (importer/exporter) and operators to efficiently and fluidly process international trade workflows, which are today processed mostly through human labor.

Our platform currently covers freight forwarding and we are aiming to expand our coverage throughout the international trade supply chain.