Mid-level Frontend Engineer

This is a full-time, mid-career frontend engineer position for SAMANSA, a short-film video-on-demand service. The role covers frontend engineering for the SAMANSA short-film streaming service and involves creating a viewing experience that differs from conventional feature-film services and is closer to TikTok-style short-video consumption.

The main responsibility is to handle frontend engineering across the service. The technology environment includes Flutter as a main framework, HTML and CSS for the web frontend, React with Next.js, AWS for infrastructure, and Ruby on Rails on the backend. GitHub is used for code management, while Notion and Slack are used for communication and task management.

Required qualifications are at least two years of professional experience using React, code review skills, and the ability to work full-time. Experience levels from experienced engineers to applicants with limited experience are considered, provided the minimum experience requirement is met. Experience with 0-to-1 product development, UI/UX design, Rails development, Flutter development, and AWS is welcomed. Applicants should be interested in creating a new market or business, developing in a startup environment, acting proactively, and taking responsibility for their work.

SAMANSA collects and distributes short films from around the world through its app. The company also works on film acquisition, translation and distribution, original film production, and other forms of film delivery, but this position is focused on the product frontend. The team includes US-born members and many bilingual members, with overseas communication occurring for some work. Some duties can be conducted only in Japanese.

Company-wide, employees are asked to attend the office at least two days per week, while for this position office attendance is once per week and remote work is available on the other days. Online interviews are available. If an application passes document screening, the person in charge is scheduled to contact the applicant within one month.

The general working-environment section asks employees to attend the office at least two days per week, while the section specific to this position states that office attendance is once per week and remote work is available on the other days.