Software Engineer, Full Stack (Release Engineering)
Job Description
Release Engineering targets to deliver product changes to SmartNews users as fast and safely as possible, focusing on providing the necessary tools, infrastructure, and processes to facilitate continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) while maintaining high standards of quality and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Implement reliable infrastructure to support a rapid development and release process across multiple domains (WEB, mobile, back-end)
- Design and implement technical systems to support the best in the industry release process
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the board, anticipate their needs, and drive adoption of the improvements
Qualifications
Minimum requirements
- Full stack development
- Languages: TypeScript, Java, Python
- Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design, and unit testing techniques
- Experience with CI/CD, ideally on a customized cloud setup
- Experience with cloud infrastructure set up and infrastructure as code approaches (AWS, GCP, etc)
- Good communication and proactivity
- Good ownership and leadership skills
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- Business level communication in English
Nice to have experiences/skills
- ML/LLM experience, custom agents, ML models training, etc
- Mobile development (Android, iOS, ReactNative)
- Build systems (Gradle, Xcode, Turbo, etc)
About the Company
SmartNews is a global leader in redefining information and news discovery, committed to providing users with accurate, timely information and supporting quality journalism. We combine the power of our unique machine-learning technology with the expertise of our first-rate editorial team to bring news that matters to millions of users from our over 3,000 global publishing partners.
Founded in 2012 in Tokyo, Japan, SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, Palo Alto, New York, and Singapore.
Benefits
- All healthcare and social insurance required by the Japanese labor law, plus annual health check
- Visa sponsorship and overseas relocation support available for eligible candidates
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