Conduct web application and server vulnerability assessments and security reviews for online games. Coordinate scopes and schedules, report findings, verify remediation, close engagements, and manage external security vendors when required.
About this role
The Web Application Engineer develops and operates shared platforms supporting numerous F2P and MMO online game titles. The work covers user authentication, account management, and game payment systems used across the company’s game portfolio.
Responsibilities include designing, developing, expanding, and improving the common platform; designing architectures for large-scale access and high-frequency transactions; and carrying out performance tuning. The role also designs, develops, operates, and maintains a web store for PC browsers and external channels, including payment outside applications.
The engineer contributes to stable operation for game titles in Japan and overseas by monitoring services, maintaining SLOs, and responding to incidents while meeting varied business requirements. The position can cover the full development lifecycle, from upstream design through development, operations, and continuous improvement.
Required experience includes server-side development, API design and implementation, relational database design and performance tuning, backend development with a statically typed language, team development using Git, development processes involving code review, and implementation of unit tests to assure quality.
Preferred experience includes backend development with Java, C, or Python; Ruby on Rails development; frontend development with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Vue.js; creating design documentation and sharing specifications using UML; basic knowledge of network protocols such as HTTP; development and operation of large-scale, high-traffic web services; and development using GCP. The platform environment includes microservices, GCP, and Kubernetes.
The position is a permanent employee role with no fixed contract period and a six-month probationary period. Work is based at the Shibuya office in Shibuya, Tokyo, or, where approved, at home or an equivalent location under the telework system. The work schedule is flextime with no core hours. Standard daily working time is 7.5 hours excluding breaks. Overtime may occur. Benefits stated in the posting include transportation expenses, health insurance association resort facilities, health examinations, employment insurance, workers’ accident compensation insurance, employees’ pension insurance, and health insurance.
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