Tokyo, Japan

Full-time, Salaried position

I. POSITION SUMMARY:

The Lead Systems Engineer role is a senior Supervisory level position who leads a team of Systems Engineers, and will also take part in planning and decision making. This position is in charge of developing specifications, plans, designs software architecture, implements and then maintains internal and external systems for our business.  This includes, but is not limited to designing and developing adequate systems and software based on user’s feedback, or changes in requirements due to business expansion.

II. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

1. Designs, codes and debugs applications in various software languages.
2. Write readable codes that adheres to our coding guidelines.
3. Performs software testing and quality assurance.
4. Supports, maintains, creates documents and software functionality.
5. Monitor and provide quick response to system failures.
6. Follows WHY-HOW-WHAT rules at task handling.
7. Implements, modifies and maintains internal systems for business usage.
8. Designs simple front-end graphical user interface within specifications and listening to user feedback.
9. Data structure designing.
10. Maintain standards compliance.
11. Undertakes performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation.
12. Performs software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis.
13. Learn and use new technologies that includes, but  is not limited to programming languages.
14. Create systems (including but not limited to software) to support the business as a Team.
15. Plans, designs (UML) Behavioral Diagrams and Structure Diagrams.
16. Develops specifications.
17. Applies software modeling and simulation to ensure successful system implementation.
18. Evaluates and identifies new technologies for implementation and recommends to supervisor.
19. Performs Project Planning and Management activities to ensure successful implementation of systems.

Common Responsibilities:

1. Completes assigned goals and tasks, as well as some required administrative work
2. Constantly identifies financial and other risks to the Company and reports these quickly and accurately to Management.
3. Functions as a cooperative and active member 
4. Understands and follows our Core Values
5. Maintains the public image of the Company

III. ESSENTIAL JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Physical Requirements & Working Conditions:

• This is an office environment and typical physical demands apply.
• Must be open to working flexible hours in order to communicate efficiently with Global clients. Must be open to working flexible hours when needed, particularly for urgent system diagnosis, handling scheduled maintenance job, or when needed to join online meetings with colleagues from other locations and timezone, etc.

Minimum Qualifications Needed:

1. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
2. Must be willing and have good / excellent ability to communicate in English for business purposes 
3. Japanese language proficiency with N2+ level
4. Must have excellent analytical skill
5. Must have excellent documentation skill
6. Must have at least 5 years of experience in Software development, programming and/or engineering 
7. At least 3 years of leadership / supervisory experience
8. Knowledge of some Technologies that we use will be an advantage:

• Cloud Services(Amazon, AliCloud, etc).
• Operating Systems(Linux, etc).
• Databases(MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, etc).
• Programming Languages(Perl, PHP, TypeScript, JavaScript, Shell Script, Terraform, etc).
• Docker(K8S, docker-compose, AWS Fargate, etc).
• Version Control(Git, GitHub).
• CI/CD(CircleCI, GitHub Action).

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