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
This long-term internship offers engineering work across Pixiv’s internally developed services. Depending on the area, interns develop and improve features, existing functionality, performance, and operations. Frontend work includes UI planning and design with designers, markup, performance optimization, and using user feedback and other data to propose improvements. Backend work covers application design and development from planning and specifications through feature delivery, user-experience and performance improvements, and analysis and response to operational issues. Mobile work includes Android and iOS app design, development, operation, feature discussions, CI/CD, and test-environment improvements.
Other possible areas include delivery technology, authentication and authorization, payments, advertising, company-wide data engineering, machine learning, and 3D/xR/Unity. Responsibilities may include system design and technology selection, middleware and operational web-application development, security improvements, payment-method implementation and fraud-risk reduction, ad-delivery and internal ad-server improvements, ELT pipeline development and data-quality controls, recommendation-system development and model integration, and development of 3D-character products including VRoid Studio, VRoid Hub, VRoid SDK, and ChatRoid. Related engineering skills may also be considered through the open recruitment track.
Technologies named in the posting include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Vue, Tailwind CSS, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Go, Rust, Scala, MySQL, Redis, Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, Kotlin, Java, Swift, Firebase, GitLab CI, MagicPod, nginx, Lua, BigQuery, OAuth, OpenID Connect, TOTP, WebAuthn, Play Framework, Docker, Google Cloud, Stripe, Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo CD, Python, SQL, Looker, Airflow, dbt, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Unity, C#, .NET Framework, Redux, Three.js, WebGL, glTF, VRM, Amazon Bedrock, and OpenSearch. Technologies vary by product.
Applicants must be enrolled in a university, graduate school, college of technology, or vocational school. The posting does not restrict school type, faculty, department, or major. Applicants must want to join Pixiv as a new graduate and be able to work at least two weekdays per week.
The internship is generally for one month and is not renewed. Work is scheduled on weekdays from 10:00 to 19:00, for at least five hours per day. The location is 4-23-5-6F Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo 151-0051. The location section also states that the scope of change is home. The structured posting lists JPY 1,800 per hour, and the body states that transportation expenses are provided.
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