Position Type: Web service development lead
Employment type: Full-time ( with 3 months trial period)
Location: Our office at Nishishinjuku Shinjuku-ku Tokyo and/or remote
About the project:
Incubion is a growing startup providing public testing, prototyping, and business/design consultancy in the field of service robotics. Our mission is to enable sustainable ecosystems where humans & robots can coexist in harmony.
We are currently working on a new project to increase robot literacy in society. The panorama for robotic solutions still remains limited and unavailable. We aim to create an information platform that enables the democratization of robot knowledge, and that promotes a dialogue between robot providers, robot seekers, and potential users.
We look for an energetic, innovative, and highly motivated person to support the world-changing information service for robots to be materialized.
Responsibilities:
- Leading development and execution of building the multi-sided web application
- Address clear user problems for needs relevant to robot seekers and providers. Identify solutions that could optimize/improve user experience, and build user-centric goals for features in;
- overall frond-end website design
- database design that could effectively support the contents management system
- internal tooling
- Work with the team and external developers to negotiate decisions about required specs and tradeoffs to meet goals and help drive the resolution of high-priority issues
- Create and update project plans for the development and implementation process and track progress to keep the project moving forward on schedule
- Build and maintain collaborative working relationships with engineers, designers, and top management
- Support implementation of user research partner with UX designers
- Project manage the development and implementation processes
Personality:
- Being responsible both for process and for results to deliver quality work by deadlines
- Willingness to work as a team across disciplines to solve problems to balance design/business feasibility
- Brave enough to step out of the comfort zone, and embrace fear as part of the learning process
- Value honesty, sincerity, empathy, and fairness to people working with us, including the team, clients, and business partners
- Being observant, creative, and self-starter: take initiative and conducts work proactively
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience with front-end development of multi-side platform web services
- Familiarity with the different aspects of web service development: planning, specification, development, QA, delivery, and maintenance
- Experience in project management including resource and budget management
- Ability to make decisions based on facts and to explain the rationale logically
- Excellent Japanese verbal and written skills to communicate smoothly with people of different backgrounds
- Experience collaborating with development, marketing, and design
- Authorized to work in Japan
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in operation and maintenance of multi-side platform web services
- Understanding of UX design and/or service design processes
- Capable of using prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, Asure, Figma
- Fluent in English
What we offer
- Annual salary range – 4.5M – 8M JPY. Based on skills and experiences
- Work Hours – Regular working hours: 10-18h, 1-hour break. Flexible working hours available. Discuss at interview.
- Paid Holiday – 10 days per year (prorated)
- Sick Leave – 6 days per year (prorated)
- Holiday – Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by the company
- Japanese Social Welfare – all applicable (Health Insurance, Pension, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance)
