Woven by Toyota 🚗: Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack)
About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota is the mobility technology subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Our mission is to deliver safe, intelligent, human-centered mobility for all. Through our Arene mobility software platform, safety-first automated driving technology, and Toyota Woven City — our test course for advanced mobility — we’re bringing greater freedom, safety, and happiness to people and society.
Our unique global culture weaves modern Silicon Valley innovation and time-tested Japanese quality craftsmanship. We leverage these complementary strengths to amplify the capabilities of drivers, foster happiness, and elevate well-being.
The Team
Focused on improving the human capital of Woven by Toyota, Toyota Group, and millions of adult learners across corporate Japan, we are a diverse team of international experts who are building a skill-based talent management and learning management system. Our mission is to empower the mobility of people at a societal level by guiding them to discover and attain new digital skills through clever use of data, design, and technology.
Who Are We Looking For?
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack) to join our Product & Engineering group and help us create unique experiences for users. You will be passionate about taking ownership of a broad, evolving problem space and rely on your technical expertise to guide us through product development. You will contribute to our technology and architecture strategy for the system, working with Product Managers and Product Designers to create PoCs that allow usability testing and gather user feedback before we commit our engineering resources to a solution.
Reporting to the Head of Engineering (Interim), you will be an advocate for modern development practices and achieving our vision of staying "highly aligned and loosely coupled" across our teams.
We have a hybrid work style, and our office is in Nihombashi, Tokyo.
Responsibilities
- Oversee a problem space end-to-end and lead technical understanding and collaboration across missions and squads.
- Promote best practices to the engineering team, perform code reviews, and advocate for high-quality solutions.
- Help other engineers grow through mentoring.
- Lead our post-mortem and incident management processes to ensure the product we develop meets the quality and stability that our users expect.
Minimum Requirements
- 5+ years of experience developing B2B/B2C SaaS applications using modern programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.
- 2+ years of assigning tasks and planning work for a small team of developers to implement complex features in a collaborative way.
- You understand software architecture patterns, security, and can lead the development of complex and scalable systems, and have in-depth experience with React and AWS.
- You have experience in domain-driven design (DDD) and test-driven development (TDD).
- You are comfortable speaking and presenting in English at a professional level.
Nice to Haves
- You have experience engineering SaaS businesses for the Japan or APAC market within the HRTech/EdTech space.
- You have experience with GoLang and an understanding of its best practices.
- You have an understanding of MLOps, data engineering, and data structures.
- You can use Japanese in daily life.
What We Offer
- Competitive Salary - Based on experience
- Work Hours - Flexible working time with NO core-hours
- Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated)
- Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated)
- Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company
- Japanese Social Security - all applicable (Health Insurance, Pension, Workers' Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance)
- In-house Training Program (software study/language study)
Our Commitment
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
- Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. Please see our privacy notice for more details.