Software Engineer, Full Stack

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 in-app web content
• Develop web applications for internal use and external partners
• Develop on server side for user-facing features
• Continuously improve our system’s operations, stability, efficiency and scalability

Your qualification

• Advanced experience in Full Stack/Front-End development
• Understanding of computer science (algorithms and data structures) and effective API design
• Effective communication in Japanese or English

Will be a plus

• Advanced programming skills in one or more of the following languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, Swift
• Understanding of web technologies and HTML5 features
• Experience working with frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js, Svelte)
• Development experience on AWS
• Experience with SQL, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Docker, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, 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