Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About SmartNews

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 to discover and deliver quality stories to the world. To accomplish this:

We are a machine learning company. News should be impartial, trending and trustworthy. Our algorithms evaluate millions of articles, social signals and human interactions to deliver the top 0.01% of stories that matter most, right now.

We love content. News should be sustainable. We support quality journalism and respect publishers by sharing article traffic and revenue.

Please note that we will only consider you for one application at a time.

Position

Responsibilities:

• Develop on server side for news or ads feeds
• Continuous improvement on the system operation, stability, efficiency, and scalability

Your qualification

Minimum qualifications:

• Advanced skill and experience in more than one programming language
• Understanding of computer science
• Possible to use Japanese or English as a fluent or native speaker

Preferred qualifications:

• High programming skills in one of these languages: Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Ruby
• Failure analysis and performance tuning in JVM operation
• Development experience on AWS
• Development and operation experience in high traffic web service
• Configuration, development, and operation of Microservice / Service Mesh architecture
• Experience in Spring Boot, MySQL, PipelineDB, Elasticsearch, Hive, Hadoop, Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, Istio, etc.

What we offer

• SmartKitchen - Healthy lunch on a daily basis for free (Tokyo Office)
• ChikyuCoffee - Delicious coffee provided by our Barista every day (Tokyo Office)
• Foreign language development support
• Various social insurance benefits included