Lead software development from requirements through release and maintenance, improve architecture and development processes, and support team growth across GO's mobility products. The role may involve hands-on implementation, people management, and generative AI adoption.
About this role
This role develops and operates GO BUSINESS, a B2B SaaS product for companies that use taxis for business. The service supports invoice payment for taxi fares, centralized management of employee ride histories through a web interface, electronic taxi tickets, and arranging taxis on behalf of executives or customers.
The engineer works across multiple products, including the corporate administration screens and other products that make up the GO taxi app. Responsibilities include developing and operating web applications and backend API servers, defining requirements, designing specifications, implementing features, and testing them. The role may also involve directly developing APIs for the GO taxi app and coordinating with the user application team, other product development teams, corporate customers, and sales.
Required experience includes at least three years of development and operations experience for web applications and their backend API servers; frontend development using JavaScript or TypeScript and React; experience from requirements definition through specification design, development, and testing; experience developing in teams with both engineers and non-engineers; and team development using GitHub or similar tools.
The backend environment uses Go, Echo, MySQL, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and GitHub Actions. The frontend environment uses TypeScript, Dart, React, Flutter, MUI, S3, CloudFront, and GitHub Actions. Preferred experience includes operating and maintaining large-scale web services, performance tuning, frontend or backend architecture design, database table design, BigQuery, Sentry, New Relic, Go backend development, business system design and development, service operations improvement, and generative AI-assisted development and operations.
The position addresses growing usage and inquiries while developing improvements for existing customers and new features for prospective customers. Work includes features related to corporate governance and security for large global companies, as well as development involving the GO taxi app backend and user applications.
Employment is full-time with no fixed contract term. The annual salary is ¥8,000,000–¥12,000,000, including a fixed overtime allowance for 45 hours per month unless the hire is classified as a manager. Salary is reviewed twice yearly, with an annual performance-linked payment. The position allows fully remote work within Japan, with no required number of office days, although attendance may be required on dates designated by the company. Working hours follow a super flextime system with no core hours. Social insurance, transportation expenses up to ¥50,000 per month, a taxi subsidy, a monthly New Normal allowance, child allowances, paid leave, holidays, and other listed benefits are provided.
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