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 role develops the Android application for the company’s own food and meal-management service, along with other apps provided by the company and Android apps developed with client companies. The work includes designing, developing, operating, and improving applications; analyzing and reporting on user behavior; proposing improvements to the user experience; and considering features and defining requirements.
The engineer is also responsible for testing and debugging, application updates and feature releases, code reviews for other developers, maintenance of the mobile CI/CD environment, and technical initiatives to improve development efficiency. Server-side API development is available for people who can and want to work in that area.
The posting lists experience publishing an Android application on Google Play, keeping up with Android development trends, and knowledge or development experience using application architectures such as MVP, MVVM, and Clean Architecture as welcome qualifications. Experience developing GUI applications with Jetpack Compose, whether personally or professionally, is also welcomed. The role seeks people interested in improving everyday life through software, exploring effective development methods, noticing user problems, and investigating the reasons behind user needs.
The development environment uses a MacBook Pro and Android Studio. The Android application uses MVVM and Android Jetpack components including Jetpack Compose, AAC, Navigation Component, Room, WorkManager, and Paging Library. Other named technologies include Kotlin Coroutines Flow, Dagger Hilt, and Epoxy. AWS is used for infrastructure, with services deployed on ECS; GCP is used for analytics and machine-learning-related tasks. CircleCI is used for almost all services, and the development tools also include Git, GitHub, and GitHub Copilot through an enterprise license.
The product area combines food, health, and medical care. The team develops the consumer meal-management application おいしい健康, the medical-institution meal-guidance solution Kakaris, and other health-related solutions. Engineers work with designers, registered dietitians, and other specialists, and the company uses food and health data in joint research with medical universities, including papers and conference presentations.
The position is full-time and based in Tokyo. Online interviews are available. The company states that it uses remote work and core-time flextime. New employees receive onboarding during their first six months, including monthly one-on-one lunches with a mentor and regular meetings with the CEO. The company reports approximately 45 members and describes itself as a startup.
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