Remote Full-stack Engineer

Description:

• KOMOJU is the leading cross-border payment gateway for Japan, powering payments for companies like Steam and TikTok.
• The company provides payment infrastructure through developer-friendly APIs for merchants expanding in various markets.
• The role is product-focused, involving work on the payment gateway and pilot projects to shape the future of KOMOJU.
• Engineers work in a flat and inclusive culture, participating in key product and technology decisions.
• The culture promotes self-organization, allowing engineers to have ownership of their work and growth.
• The engineering team uses English as the common language, with many employees being bilingual.
• Employees have the option to take English or Japanese lessons.
• The position requires a backend engineer to build a platform for global payment handling, primarily using Ruby on Rails.
• Collaboration with the team is essential to define features and architectures, implement them in code, and provide feedback through code reviews.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have experience building performant and scalable APIs, including database performance.
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs in a secure and fault-tolerant manner is required.
• A strong understanding of common web exploits and mitigation strategies is necessary.
• Candidates should possess a strong understanding of OOP programming languages and patterns.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, Vue.js, and/or React is a plus.
• Familiarity with payments or payment systems is advantageous.
• Business-level spoken and written Japanese is a nice-to-have.

Benefits:

• Degica offers remote work options while providing office space for those who prefer in-person collaboration.
• Employees receive 10 days of regular vacation, plus an additional 5 days for summer and 5 days for winter vacation.
• A paid birthday holiday is included in the benefits package.
• There is a budget for self-learning allowance to help employees keep their skills current.
• Language training for Japanese is provided to employees.