Early-Career Technical Roles

Cygames

Gaming

Frontend

Backend

DevOps

About this role

This early-career technical recruitment covers roles that support game and entertainment content. Potential assignments include server-side or client-side game development engineering, technical art, data mining, frontend engineering, web application engineering for game-development support services, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, and operation and maintenance of internal systems. Other technical positions may also be available, with assignment discussed according to the applicant’s preferences and suitability.

Applicants must have graduated from or completed a university or graduate-school program, including a doctoral program, between March 2023 and March 2025. Social work experience is required, and this must be the applicant’s first job change; internships and part-time work are excluded from this condition. Prior experience in the game industry is not required. A training program for second-career hires is provided.

The role is based at offices in Shibuya or Meguro, Tokyo. The standard working hours are 10:00 to 19:00, with eight scheduled working hours and a 60-minute break from 13:00 to 14:00. Average monthly overtime was approximately 18.5 hours in 2025. Employment is full-time and permanent, although a contract-employee arrangement may also apply. Annual compensation is determined according to experience, ability, and company regulations, with a stated range of 4.5 million to 12 million JPY. The annual salary includes prescribed overtime and late-night work allowances, paid regardless of whether such work occurs, and a semiannual performance incentive may be provided outside the annual salary.

Benefits and support include social insurance, onboarding training, skill-development programs, mentoring and training for new graduates and second-career hires, rent assistance, relocation allowance, child allowance, defined-contribution pension, lunch support, health support, and other listed programs. The position has a two-day weekend, public holidays, summer leave, year-end and New Year leave, paid annual leave, and condolence leave. Side jobs are prohibited. The offices are generally smoke-free indoors, with designated heated-tobacco smoking rooms.

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