Handle frontend engineering for SAMANSA, a short-film streaming app, using React and related web technologies, with remote work except for a weekly office day.
SAMANSA is a video-on-demand service for short films from creators worldwide. Its curated fiction, animation and documentary catalog is available through mobile apps, web browsers and supported TVs, with offline viewing in the app. The consumer service earns subscription revenue, including a ¥490 monthly plan.
For organizations, SAMANSA sells group accounts and supplies films to airlines, hotels, cinemas, broadcasters and other VOD services. It contracts directly with creators and pays them for distribution. A ¥740 million Series A in 2025 brought cumulative disclosed funding to about ¥1.1 billion for overseas expansion, original productions and platform development.
- Remote or hybrid
- 3 of 4
- Most requested
- AWS 4
- JavaScript 4
- Next.js 4
- React 4
- Ruby 4
- Git 2
- Japanese posting, level unstated 4
- Common areas
- Backend engineering 4
- Frontend engineering 4
- UI/UX design 2
Measured from the 4 listings Ranked has live for SAMANSA. Japanese level, visa signal and skills are AI-graded from each posting and can be wrong — confirm against the employer's original posting before applying.
4
open positions at SAMANSA
Develop the SAMANSA short-film streaming service’s iOS and Android apps with Flutter, collaborating in a global startup environment. Work remotely except for one office day each week.
Develop the SAMANSA short-film streaming service as a backend engineer, using Ruby on Rails and related web, mobile, and AWS technologies to support a global entertainment product.
Lead development and continuous improvement of the SAMANSA short-film streaming platform across backend and frontend, using user data to shape features, operations, technical direction, and team development.
