Software Engineer, Full Stack (Release Engineering)

Shibuya , Japan
Full-Time

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, 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

Click here or visit our careers site for more info.

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

Click here or visit our careers site for more info about our benefits.

Our mission News should be for everyone. But not when it’s buried under cat videos—or when your internet is spotty—or when it’s in a filter bubble. That’s why we created SmartNews. Our mission is "delivering the world's quality information to the people who need it".ニュースはすべての人たちのもの。インターネット上の大量な動画やフィルターバブルによって、その人にとって本当に大切な情報が埋もれてしまわぬよう、我々はSmartNewsを創り、"世界中の良質な情報を必要な人に送り届ける"べく 一丸となってこの大きな課題に取り組んでいます。Our ValuesThree keywords below are SmartNews Core Values. All of our employees always believe in them.私たちは、以下の3つのスマートニュースコアバリューを胸に行動しています。1. For the Common Good2. Be the Owner3. Have Appreciation We believe in technologyHow do you deliver the world’s most important information to the people who need it automatically, in real-time? How do you determine what makes a quality story or what people want to read? This is a problem both on a planetary and individual scale, and requires many different disciplines to solve.世界中の良質な情報をいかに届けるか。膨大な情報の中から良質なものを選定し、カテゴライズし、それをリアルタイムで実現する。我々はテクノロジーを信じ、スケーラブルな問題解決に魂を注いでいます。SmartNews Engineering Blog (in Japanese): https://developer.smartnews.com/blog/

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