Use Python and SQL to analyze real-world food, health, and lifestyle data, contributing to recommendation systems, clinical research, visualizations, and business reports in a Tokyo R&D internship.
About this role
This full-time Android engineering role is based in Tokyo and focuses on the company’s own food and health app, as well as other Android applications developed with client companies. The work covers designing, developing, operating and improving Android applications; analyzing and reporting user activity; proposing improvements to the user experience; considering functions and defining requirements; testing and debugging; releasing updates and features; reviewing other developers’ code; maintaining the mobile CI/CD environment; and investigating technical measures to improve development efficiency. API and server-side development is also possible for applicants who can do it or want to take it on.
The posting lists publishing an Android application on Google Play, keeping up with Android development trends, and knowledge of or development experience based on Android application architectures such as MVP, MVVM and Clean Architecture as welcome qualifications. Experience developing GUI applications with Jetpack Compose in either personal or professional work is also welcomed. No specific education or years-of-experience requirement is stated.
The Android environment includes Android Studio and MVVM, with Android Jetpack components including Jetpack Compose, AAC, Navigation Component, Room, WorkManager and Paging Library. Other named technologies are Kotlin Coroutines Flow, Dagger Hilt and Epoxy. Development machines are MacBook Pro computers. AWS is used for infrastructure, with services deployed on ECS, while GCP is used for analytics and machine-learning-related tasks. CircleCI is used for most services, and the stated tools also include Git, GitHub and GitHub Copilot.
The products address food management, healthcare and medical guidance. The company develops the consumer and patient-facing Oishi Kenko meal-management app, the Kakaris dietary-guidance solution for medical institutions, and solutions for health insurance associations. Its work also includes joint clinical research with medical institutions and collaboration with pharmaceutical and food companies. Engineers work with designers, registered dietitians, sales staff and other specialists, using food and health data in product and research activities.
The company has about 45 members and describes itself as a startup. Remote work and core-time flextime are used. The posting also states that online interviews are available. New employees receive onboarding that includes monthly one-on-one lunches with a mentor during their first six months and regular meetings with the CEO. Welcome lunches and quarterly internal events are also described.
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