Backend Software Engineer, Robot Platform Software
Woven by Toyota3 months ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and deploy reliable backend services for the Robot Platform.
- Improve test quality and coverage, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring capabilities.
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, frontend, and business teams on robotic products and services.
- Monitor deployed services, diagnose issues, and coordinate with Woven City on-site operations.
- Travel to Woven City as needed for on-site troubleshooting and maintenance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
- At least five years of hands-on backend software development experience, including object-oriented design, debugging, testing, version control, and CI/CD.
- Hands-on proficiency with Java and modern tooling such as Gradle, Maven, or Spring Boot.
- Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, initiative, and ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Business-level written and spoken English.
- Preferred: familiarity with AMQP, MQTT, RabbitMQ, Docker, Podman, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, React, TypeScript, DevOps practices, and business-level Japanese.
Benefits
- Flexible working time.
- 20 days of paid holiday per year, prorated.
- 6 days of sick leave per year, prorated.
- Saturdays, Sundays, 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.
- In-house software and language training programs.
- The role may require travel to Woven City for on-site work.
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About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota exists to accelerate Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation from a car company into a mobility company. Rooted in a legacy of reinvention, we carry forward a singular founding principle: to innovate for the benefit of others. Today, we are driving this transformation from two vantage points: redefining how vehicles are built, experienced, and connected to the world to realize a true software-defined vehicle, and reimagining how people, goods, information, and energy move and interact in society to empower individuals from all walks of life. Through these two lenses, we combine bold innovation with real-world execution, bridging the gap between present and future to help Toyota evolve its business and its role in society.