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スマートニュース

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Software Engineer, Data Platform

Tokyo
Partial Remote
Full-time
September 30, 2022

The data platform software engineer in SmartNews plays a key role in accelerating products/business development. Great efforts are made on building a highly efficient and flexible data service for analytical and operational purposes.

To serve the internal users such as our analytics and product-dev teams, the mission of data engineers is to create high-level, easy-to-use data services for simplifying the accessing, integration, and consolidation of various data sets, and also building the platforms for executing tasks processing massive data in terms of TB per day.

Technology drives the growth of SmartNews, and thus we eagerly adopt cutting-edge technologies from the industry and academia, especially the open-source community.

Responsibilities

Develop and realize the overall data strategy for the company

Develop and manage ETL/ELT pipelines and infrastructure of analytics databases

Cooperate with the product team, data science team to design data features to enable product improvement and timely business KPI measurements.

Determine the importance of each dataset and take appropriate measures to ensure data reliability and quality according to priority

Improve the reliability and speed of queries for ever-increasing volumes of data

Implement new types of data workflows

Build dashboards to visualize key metric

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

BS/MS degree in computer science or equivalent science/engineering degree

Strong programming skills and experiences with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms are required for building efficient and stable solutions

3 years of rich experiences with Java or Python; familiar with agile development and manage testing skills

Need certain knowledge on shell scripts and operating systems, especially on Linux

Good understanding of modern bigdata technologies and ecosystems

Strong experience with modern data stores either RDBMS or NoSQL stores (such as MySQL, Cassandra or Druid, etc); have experience with developing application or function-extensions on such data stores

Be able to implement and tune complicated heavy-lifting data flows (ETLs or pipelines), familiar with certain toolings

Capability of system design with good modularity and extensibility

Familiar with system/module design methods and toolings such as UML

Be able to draft the user-understandable blueprint and precise, detailed designs

Experience with building highly scalable distributed systems

Able to design and implement distributed services with scalability and performance in mind

Able to debug and troubleshoot performance and reliability problems

English as the working language

Preferred Experience

5 years of programming experience

Have architected/implemented a data warehouse

Have set up/implemented a data processing tool

Experience with AWS (EC2, Kinesis, EMR, S3, etc.)

Experience in development related to Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Clickhouse, Presto/Trino

Experience in dashboard development with modern tools, such as Tableau or Superset

Experience with infrastructure or data workflows for machine learning

Knowledge of real-time streaming data systems

Strong interest in new big data tools and technologies

Benefits

Perks and Benefits at the SmartNews Tokyo Office

Support program for employees’ self-development and well-being

Healthy lunches are prepared on-site daily in our SmartKitchen, located in our West Office building. You can even see the cooks at work!

Need a pick-me-up? Stop by ChikyuCoffee, our in-house coffee shop located in both the East and West Office buildings, and get a cup of gourmet coffee, espresso-based beverage, or other seasonal drink!

SmartNews provides all healthcare and social insurance benefits required by Japanese labor law

Visa Sponsorship and Relocation Support

SmartNews can sponsor visas for candidates who meet eligibility requirements.

To support a smooth transition for candidates who are moving to Japan from overseas, SmartNews partners with a travel service provider.

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About スマートニュース

スマートニュース株式会社は「世界中の良質な情報を必要な人に送り届ける」ことをミッションとし、独自開発のウェブ解析技術を基盤に、アメリカと日本を中心に世界5000万ダウンロードを超える「SmartNews」を運用しています。また、創業者の1人がエンジニア出身であり、ITを重視するテクノロジー企業です。

スマートニュースの開発チームは非常にダイバシティ豊かです。東京とサンフランシスコ、パロアルト、上海、北京に開発オフィスがあり、世界トップレベルのエンジニアが集まっています「One Product, One Team」の哲学に基づき、日米で異なるタイムゾーンや言語、物理的環境でありながらも、活動のコードベースは1つ、そしてチームも1つでグローバルプロダクト開発体制をつくっています。英語もしくは日本語どちらかが流暢に話せれば応募可能なポジションもあり、優秀なグローバルメンバーと国際的な環境で働きたい日本人にとっても、すばらしい環境です。日本語、英語の学習サポートもあります。

Japanese Language Policy
We do not require Japanese language ability in the working environment. We have a language support program if employees want to learn Japanese.
Visa Sponsorship
We support candidates to get a working visa from the start to the end (for JP office joiners).
Paid Leave
Our holidays shall include Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and other days designated by the Company.

Annual paid holidays
- 4-10 days of paid holiday will be granted depending on the month in which you join the Company.
- From the second year and onwards, paid holidays will be granted according to the number of years of your employment on April 1st of each year. The number of days granted shall be set forth in the Work Rules.
Other leaves
- Summer holidays
- Year-end and year-beginning holidays
- Special leave for congratulation or condolence (marriage or immediate family death)
- Sick/Injured Child Care Leave
- Family nursing care leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
Benefits
☕️ ChikyuCoffee - Delicious coffee provided by our Barista every day

🍹 Free soft drinks

🌽 SmartKitchen - Healthy organic lunch on a daily basis for free at our cafeteria

👩‍🎓 Foreign language development support

💜 Various social insurance benefits included

🏥 Health insurance

📓 Free book rent from our library collections

🌎 Translation/interpretation support (EN<>JP)
Remote Work
We accept work from home policy during natural disasters and emergency situations. Our company’s working policy during the pandemic follows the government’s recommendations.
Work style
Our engineering and product teams follow the discretionary labor system to better collaborate with members in the US and China.
Diversity
We support diversity in various ways and those are not simply reflected in the quantitative goals.

We have employees with 18 different nationalities. Groups of small gatherings with similar interests are actively communicating across divisions, departments, and regions. We have monthly Global All Hands to share important notes from each region and be aligned globally.

All employees in SmartNews have different personal and professional backgrounds and experiences.
Parents and Family
We are supporting our employees in various ways to help them manage their work better with family care.

We have 10 annual paid leaves (for a child) for employees with children until they enter highschool.

Working from home is encouraged when their family needs care. Employees can freely invite their family to the Smart Kitchen (our corporate kitchen where free lunches are served).

During the working from home period because of the pandemic, employees with small children autonomously held some online sessions for their children such as reading fairy tales and mutual online babysittings.