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.

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.