Backend Engineer, Integrated Booking and Ticketing System, Facility Service System
Woven by Toyota11 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to clarify requirements, design backend solutions, and coordinate API contracts and partner integrations.
- Contribute to architecture, technical design decisions, documentation, engineering standards, and technical-debt reduction.
- Build, review, test, and maintain secure, performant backend software with transactional correctness.
- Own backend features from design through production while coordinating dependencies, communicating risks, and resolving blockers.
- Investigate production issues, improve monitoring and observability, and contribute to service reliability with platform and operations teams.
- Support engineers through code reviews, technical discussions, knowledge sharing, onboarding, and technical interviews.
- Use automation and AI-assisted development tools responsibly while following testing, review, and security practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- At least 5 years of backend software development experience.
- Strong proficiency in Go preferred, or Java, Python, Kotlin, Rust, or another modern programming language.
- Experience independently designing, developing, and delivering complex backend features, making technical decisions, reviewing code, and collaborating across teams.
- Strong relational database and SQL skills, including data modeling, transactions, concurrency control, and query performance.
- Strong system and API design skills, including secure and reliable service integration.
- Experience deploying and operating backend services in a cloud environment with automated testing, continuous delivery, and production troubleshooting.
- Ability to identify and resolve technical problems collaboratively and explain decisions to technical and business stakeholders.
- English proficiency sufficient for technical discussions, documentation, and cross-team collaboration.
- Experience with booking, ticketing, commerce, backend modernization, maintainability, scalability, asynchronous integrations, or event delivery failures is preferred.
- Conversational Japanese is preferred for collaboration with Japanese-speaking colleagues and partners.
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience.
- Flexible working time.
- 20 days of paid holiday per year, prorated.
- 6 days of sick leave per year, prorated.
- Weekends, Japanese national holidays, and other company-defined holidays off.
- Japanese social insurance, including health insurance, pension, workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, and long-term care insurance.
- Housing allowance, retirement benefits, rental car support, and in-house software and language training.
- Interviews are conducted via Google Meet unless otherwise stated; applicants may submit an English or Japanese resume.
- The posting is available in English and Japanese, and applicants are asked to apply to only one version.
About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota develops software for automated driving, advanced driver assistance, and software-defined vehicles, primarily for Toyota and its partners. Its products include Arene (a vehicle software platform), AD/ADAS technologies, and the Woven City test course, supported by cloud and AI infrastructure. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, it operates as a Toyota Motor Corporation subsidiary focused on vehicle software and mobility systems.