Senior Backend Python/NodeJS Remote

We are looking for a Senior Backend developer to join our team.

You will be responsible for the server side of our web applications.

If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you.

As a Backend developer, you'll work closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience.

Ultimately, you should be able to develop and maintain functional and stable web applications to meet our company's needs.

You should also be a team player.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle
• Write clean code and develop functional web applications
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies
• Write effective APIs
• Writing clean, functional code on the back-end
• Write well tested software to ensure quality, responsiveness and efficiency
• Write technical documentation
• Troubleshooting issues and problem solving as necessary

Location

• Remote
• Or on-site in Tokyo, Japan

Contract and Salary Expectation

• $2000 - $3000 USD
• 3 months probationary period
• Performance review every 6 months

Requirements

• Proven work experience as a Back-end developer
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Familiarity with common stacks
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. Python, Go, NodeJS)
• Knowledge of multiple frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django, Flask)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB)
• Familiarity with development tools (e.g. Git, Docker, AWS)
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills

Nice to have

• Familiarity integrating third party APIs
• Can communicate in Japanese with our internal team
• Experience developing and operating SaaS products and services
• Frontend development

We are a distributed team in a multi cultural environment, 35+ engineers from 8 nationalities, 60% engineers from Vietnam
Together we develop and maintain 5 SaaS products and various tailored business solutions for our clients

Interesting engineering projects

• Data platform
• Analytics platform
• Chatbots
• Video calls
• Commerce
• Recommendation systems
• Integrations with messaging platforms: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Line, Line Works, Google Meet

Our products and services

• Synalio -
• PEP -
• Libero -
• Shinan Maker -
• Virtual Store -