Lead development projects for digital book services, managing requirements, design, and vendor collaboration.
About this role
Dwango's Bookwalker division is hiring a Web Application Engineer to design and build the web applications behind BOOK WALKER, Niconico Manga, Dokusho Meter and its other e-book services. Each engineer has a specialty but takes part across coding, infrastructure and service improvement, and some teams use mob programming.
The products include the web applications, mobile APIs and operator tools for each service, and the assigned service can change with the business and the person's career plan. The stack is Ruby, Scala, PHP and TypeScript with Ruby on Rails, Play Framework, React and Symfony, on AWS with Terraform, Aurora, Redis, Elasticsearch and DynamoDB, using CircleCI or GitHub Actions.
Applicants need about three years of web application design and development, a habit of writing test code, comfort with agile, pair and mob programming, a home remote-work setup, residence in Japan, interest in books, manga and publishing, and business-level Japanese equivalent to N2. Preferred are team development with Git, JavaScript and CSS knowledge, consumer service development, AWS or GCP experience, agile experience, Ruby on Rails development and designing and running mid-to-large systems with load countermeasures.
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