Design, develop, and operate payment and money-transfer functions for pixiv services, integrate external providers, prevent fraud, monitor reliability, and coordinate platform improvements with other teams.
About this role
The frontend engineer will work on planning, designing, developing and technically selecting solutions for pixiv’s web applications, including new features, UX improvements and maintenance. The role covers the full product cycle: identifying user and community problems from data and user feedback, defining those problems, proposing solutions, implementing features, verifying their impact after release and continuously improving them.
The frontend is primarily built with React and Next.js. The engineer is expected to consider accessibility and user experience while improving services used by many people. Projects are assigned to individual owners, who are responsible for project management and leading delivery. The role also includes improving the development experience in areas such as CI/CD and design systems.
The team operates and develops products and features for pixiv, a creative platform where users post and view illustrations, manga and novels. The work supports the activity of the illustration, manga and novel communities. Engineers may participate in product-wide development, including feature planning, UI design and service operations, rather than limiting their work to implementation.
Required experience includes working as a frontend engineer on team-based web application development and developing applications with TypeScript and React or Next.js. Experience managing the progress of medium- to large-scale development projects is also required.
Preferred experience includes leading the planning, development or operation of services or features as a product manager; knowledge or experience in infrastructure; designing, implementing or operating data analysis platforms; and developing functions with international users in mind, including internationalization and accessibility. The position is also open to candidates interested in taking on adjacent or new areas.
Named technologies include TypeScript, Next.js, React, the in-house charcoal design system, PHP, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and Google Cloud. Pixiv mainly uses on-premises servers, while selecting cloud services according to feature characteristics. The position is based in Shibuya, Tokyo, with hybrid work available. Working hours use a flextime system with eight standard hours per day, core hours from 10:00 to 15:00, and flexible hours from 7:00 to 10:00 and 15:00 to 21:00. The employment arrangement is permanent, with annual salary of 5.52 million to 7.92 million JPY. Benefits and insurance are provided as stated in the posting, including transportation allowance, applicable housing and child allowances, paid leave, social insurance and other listed company programs.
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