Flutter Mobile Engineer

This full-time role develops the iOS and Android applications for SAMANSA, a video-on-demand service that distributes short films from around the world. The product is designed around short viewing sessions and aims to provide an experience closer to TikTok than to a conventional feature-film service. The position is based in Tokyo.

Day-to-day work centers on mobile application development with Flutter. Engineers can take responsibility for areas that match their strengths or the areas they want to develop, while working alongside experienced engineers and participating in code reviews and efforts to maintain code quality.

The required qualifications are at least two years of professional experience using Flutter, the ability to maintain code quality, code-review skills, and the ability to work full-time. Also welcome: experience creating a product from zero to one, UI/UX design experience, Rails development experience, React development experience, and AWS experience. Desired characteristics include interest in building new markets or businesses, working in a startup environment, taking initiative, and acting with responsibility.

The main framework is Flutter. The named surrounding technologies and tools are HTML and CSS for the web front end, React and Next.js, AWS for infrastructure, Ruby on Rails for the backend, GitHub for code management, and Notion and Slack for communication and management.

SAMANSA is a startup approaching its fifth year, with 25 members and experienced engineers who support mutual skill development. The company has members from the United States and many bilingual members; depending on the work, communication with overseas parties may occur regularly. Some tasks can be performed in Japanese only.

For this role, employees come to the office once a week and work remotely on the other days. The company also asks for at least two office days per week regardless of employment type, while some departments and positions are fully remote.

The role-specific work-style section states that employees come to the office once a week and work remotely on the other days. That general section also contains a request for at least two office days per week regardless of employment type, while noting that some departments and positions are fully remote.