Backend Engineer

This is a full time position for a backend engineer for inhouse product development aiming to reinvent cities. The engineer has a passion for startups. Full time on remote is possible depending on the candidate.

About Scheme Verge

scheme verge is a startup aiming to reinvent cities with a data centric approach through the platform Horai, together with an international team while providing cutting edge data science consultancy services to a wide variety of clients relating to urban development.

Our Metal breaks through the noise

Founded by a Scandinavian Metal music fan specialising in Urban Engineering graduating as top of his class at the prestigious Tokyo University, we're not your average pick. Our international team has members from Japan, Sweden, India, Vietnam and Ukraine, and as we grow it, diversity is something we strive to increase, as having a wide variety of perspectives makes us stronger.

This variety in perspectives is what enables us to see how to revolutionise real estate asset management with a foundation in data and our backgrounds helped us understand that it is not a problem located not only in Japan, but across the globe.

As a part of our business model we're providing data science consultancy services while building the Horai platform.

Creating the next level Real Estate Management platform as a Analytics-as-a-Service

We believe that connecting various industries relating to real estate management and transportation will provide additional insights into what cities could potentially be to not only residents but also tourists. This we do by creating the Horai platform, providing travelling recommendations and deeper on site experience through a smartphone app specialising in Art and events. To achieve this we are working with locals in the Setouchi area and also other regions that have Japan's leading art sites, historical resources, gastronomic culture, etc., and international level artists but also collaborating with companies involved in community development and urban development in each region and with international art festivals and art projects.

We continuously strive to create new solutions from nothing, always aiming to create a deeper depth in any experience while considering various regional characteristics and customer characteristics.

About The Position

As a Backend Engineer, you'll join our team in crafting our efficient, stateless, and elegant gRPC/JSON web APIs, and build and maintain the infrastructure to host them together with our customers.

We believe that you prefer languages such as Go or Python, working with the latest communication protocols such as gRPC and QUIC and centre your stack around open source technologies and Linux. Perhaps you like Docker and Kubernetes just as we do?

You'll take advantage of many of the latest trends in technology. Examples of technologies we use include container orchestration with Kubernetes on GCP, graph based databases such as Dgraph and using

Solidity for Ethereum Smart contracts. We also hope that you're passionate about choosing the right tool for the problem no matter if it's Golang, Python, Node.js or perhaps something else - just like us.

Your position will entail tasks such as

• Grooming, planning, estimating user stories & features with PM, PO and the rest of the team
• Making architectural decisions together with the team
• Coding, lot's of coding
• Planning and implementing testing strategies
• Helping out with recruiting, onboarding and training new members
• Pushing the team to achieve even more

As this position will be for a experienced member of our team, we ask that you fulfil the following requirements:

• Native proficiency in Japanese, or JLPT N1 or N2.
• At least 2 years of experience related to the position
• Passion for learning and applying new programming languages such as Golang, Rust, Kotlin
• Experience in OOP, functional programming
• 1+ years of extending and maintaining live production environments
• 1+ years of experience in designing, implementing and maintaining web apis
• 1+ years utilising PostgreSQL, MySQL or any other RDMS
• 1+ years utilising Docker and Kubernetes
• (if Japanese native) +1 years of international experience (travelling, studying, working etc)

We would also like to see experience with any of the following:

• Development methodologies such as TDD, SOLID or SCRUM
• Experience with leading development teams
• Experience with working with contract work (such deliverable based contracts)
• NoSQL, caching or graph databases such as MongoDB, redis or dgraph
• Utilising cloud technologies such as GCP or AWS for production purposes
• Building modern server rendered application with frameworks such as Next.js
• Designing and building serverless applications
• Utilising new protocols such as HTTP/2, gRPC or QUIC
• Working with GCP and Google Cloud Functions
• (Bonus) Experience experimenting with DLTs or cryptocurrencies
• (Bonus) Experience with ML DevOps and/or implementing ML/AI algorithms

What we can offer

We believe in taking ownership of your responsibilities and what you build thus you can adjust your work hours freely and also choose where to spend them - like working while travelling, perhaps through the Horai app?

The work we do will dramatically change how cities are planned, reinventing cities for tomorrow, something that will actually matter to people - and we believe that this is something that is important for you just as much as it is for us.

We offer market level salaries complemented with a lucrative stock option package, accompanied with the ability to leave a footprint on the platform we are building.

Depending on the seniority level, full time commitment on the remote may be offered but we prefer candidates who are willing to work inhouse from our office close by Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan.