Front End Engineer
Location: Japan
Work Style: Fully Remote
Salary: ¥6,000,000 - ¥12,000,000
About the Company
Our client is a growing SaaS company that helps large enterprises improve the UX of their web systems through browser extensions and JavaScript snippets. The company is also actively integrating generative AI to enhance both its products and development processes.
About the Role
We are looking for a Front End Engineer with strong React and TypeScript experience to help develop and evolve products used across a wide range of web services.
You will have the opportunity to work with modern frontend technologies, browser APIs, and generative AI while contributing to product specifications and technical decisions.
Responsibilities
- Develop frontend features using React and TypeScript
- Build scripts and browser extensions for Chrome, Edge, Safari, and other modern browsers
- Improve development efficiency through generative AI and automation
- Participate in Scrum-based agile development
- Work with business and design teams to continuously improve the product
- Proactively propose specifications and solutions
- Write automated tests and maintain high-quality code
Tech Stack
TypeScript, JavaScript, React, HTML5, CSS, Nx, Storybook, Vite, Webpack, SWC, Jest, Playwright, Go, GitHub, CI/CD
Requirements
Must Have:
- 3+ years of web application development and maintenance experience
- Professional experience with TypeScript and React
- Experience with HTML5 and CSS
- Experience writing test code
- Strong interest in new technologies, including generative AI, and applying engineering principles to both products and development processes
- Business-level or fluent Japanese
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Scrum or agile development
- Deep understanding of browser internals, including rendering, event handling, DOM, browser engines, and parsers
- Server-side development experience in any programming language
Why Join?
- Work fully remotely from Japan
- Build products that improve the UX of web applications used by major enterprises
- Work at the intersection of Frontend × Browser Technology × Generative AI
- Use modern frontend technologies and development practices
- Collaborate closely with business and design teams
- Choose your own development machine and peripherals
- Support for books and conference participation
- Engineer-focused environment designed for productivity and growth
We also have several other software engineering roles available, so if this position isn't the right fit, we'd be happy to explore other opportunities with you.