About Woodstock:
Woodstock is Japan's first social investing app that allows users to invest in the US market with as little as 200 yen. Users can share trades, discuss market trends, or show off their portfolio like it’s a new pair of shoes on Instagram.
We are an early stage, well funded consumer fintech startup with an innovative product and diverse culture. At Woodstock, we believe social will play a big role in the future of finance. Our mission is to empower the next generation to create a better financial future for themselves. We are a small team with a big dream to expand our services globally, starting from Japan.
Location: Tokyo (can support relocation + work visa)
Language Requirement:
Japanese: Fluent | English: Business Level
What You will do (Job Responsibilities):
- Architect and develop retail investing platform for Woodstock.
- Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
- Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
- Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
- Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
- Hands-on with coding
- Build new financial services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang and Java.
- Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
- Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
- Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose.
Who You are:
- You are passionate about financial markets.
- You are obsessed with customer feedback.
- You’re never tired of learning. You continue to learn the latest technologies as well as customer behavior to come up with decisions on how to build and scale.
- You have a “own it” attitude. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission.
- You want to be part of a winning team.You embrace being pushed out of your comfort zone. You want to go the extra mile to deliver results.
- You approach work with an open mind, ready to explore new perspectives and ideas. You don’t fear being proven wrong; instead, you embrace the opportunity to learn and adapt swiftly to new information.
- You know how to have fun.
What we look for in you (Job Requirements):
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
- You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services in financial services domain, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
- You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
- Experience in uplevelling junior engineers via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow
- You know what high quality code and software engineering processes look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
- You possess strong technical skills for system design and coding
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Japanese and English, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
- Extensive knowledge of the Spring Boot framework, micro services architecture, and gRPC.
- Experience with Kubernetes and AWS.
- Fluent in Japanese.
Nice to haves:
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
- You’ve worked with Golang, Docker.
- You are familiar with Agile development practices.
- Background in working in AI /LLM models is a plus.
Salary
Highly competitive salary (with semi-annual performance bonus) and employee stock options following Silicon Valley standards e.g, no termination clause.
