sprout-ai - Senior Software Engineer, Japan
Requirements
• Business proficiency in both Japanese and English language - you’ll collaborate with Japanese customers, as well as colleagues in both Japanese and English. • Technical proficiency • Strong experience working in fully cloud-hosted environments (e.g. AWS) • Strong proficiency in software architecture using Python or similar backend programming languages • Solid RDBMS experience, preferably with PostgreSQL • Experience building RESTful APIs (e.g. FastAPI) and real-time data processing pipelines • Bonus points for experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (e.g., Terraform) and Kubernetes, Apache Flink and Flux • Deep understanding of modern software development lifecycles, including code quality, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD, QA, and production releases in an agile, fast-paced environment • Collaborative by nature, with excellent communication, teamwork abilities, and stakeholder management skills. • Comfortable and confident speaking directly with customers, including non-technical individuals. • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically and creatively • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability • SPROUT.AI VALUES • 🌱 Hungry for Growth - Unleash your inner Sprout: Sprouts embrace growth, forget comfort zones, and help Sprout.ai http://Sprout.ai thrive. • 🚚 Own It, Deliver It - We commit, we deliver, and we exceed expectations - it's how we achieve outstanding outcomes for our customers. • 🌳 Seed Innovation - The future is shaped by those who dare to innovate. We embrace this mindset, planting the seeds for future growth, experimenting fearlessly and taking bold actions that unleash our ability to scale. • 🤝 Collaborate to Blossom - We cultivate collaboration, working together to create a vibrant and diverse ecosystem where every Sprout can thrive. It drives better results, and creates a better environment for us all.
Responsibilities
• Work with different stakeholders across the business and directly with our customers to understand a problem space within your area, propose solutions, and own the end to end delivery of complex projects. • Own and maintain specific parts of our stack with best in class engineering practices. • Write comprehensive unit, integration and end-to-end automated tests in the backend for customer-facing features. • Lead on platform-facing work, using infrastructure-as-code (AWS, terraform, k8s) to ensure our platform is reliable and scalable. • Take a lead in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and keep to date with latest trends in the industry. • Provide mentoring to other members of the Engineering and Data Science teams. • Lead in the continuous improvement of the processes and ways of working for the engineering team. • Manage feature rollouts with multiple releases per day by utilising feature flags, metrics, logs and alerting. • Champion the Engineering and Sprout company values
Benefits
• Working pattern: Fully Remote • Confident Japanese and English speaker required. • As a business which has AI at its core, we need to have a reliable, scalable and secure real-time AI platform to power our products and deliver customer impact. The Engineering team makes this happen. • We have a globally dispersed team, aligned to UK working hours, made up of pragmatic, curious and collaborative problem-solvers who are passionate about working with our Data Scientists to build state of the art AI products. Our Software Engineers bring together a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds; what unites us is a desire to learn, a mastery of our discipline and strong technical prowess. • Salary: Up to ¥14,000,000 depending on experience. Annual pay reviews. • Sprout.ai http://Sprout.ai Share Options • 20 days annual leave (plus public holidays) • Fully Remote working • Learning and Development budget • Quarterly socials in Japan and regular Virtual Socials with the global team • Occasional company-wide or team meetups in London (travel supported). • Macbook Pro + home working setup
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