Software Engineer, Full Stack (Release Engineering)

About SmartNews 

SmartNews is a leading global information and news discovery company dedicated to delivering quality information to the people who need it. Thanks to our unique machine-learning technology and relationships with more than 3,000 global publisher partners, we provide news that matters to millions of users.

Founded in 2012 in Tokyo, SmartNews also has offices in Palo Alto, New York, Beijing, and Singapore.

If you share our vision and are passionate about our mission, we encourage you to apply!

The Team

Release Engineering targets to deliver product changes to SmartNews users as fast and safely as possible, focusing on providing the necessary tools, infrastructure, and processes to facilitate continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) while maintaining high standards of quality and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Implement reliable infrastructure to support a rapid development and release process across multiple domains (WEB, mobile, back-end)
• Design and implement technical systems to support the best in the industry release process
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the board, anticipate their needs, and drive adoption of the improvements

Requirements

Minimum requirements

• Full stack development
• Languages: TypeScript, Java, Python
• Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design, and unit testing techniques
• Experience with CI/CD, ideally on a customized cloud setup
• Experience with cloud infrastructure set up and infrastructure as code approaches (AWS, GCP, etc)
• Good communication and proactivity
• Good ownership and leadership skills
• Experience working with cross-functional teams 
• Business level communication in English

Nice to have experiences/skills

• ML/LLM experience, custom agents, ML models training, etc
• Mobile development (Android, iOS, ReactNative)
• Build systems (Gradle, Xcode, Turbo, etc)

Working condition

• Office Location: Tokyo

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Benefits

• All healthcare and social insurance required by the Japanese labor law, plus annual health check
• Visa sponsorship and overseas relocation support available for eligible candidates

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