Full Stack Engineer

About MakeLeaps

MakeLeaps is a SaaS vendor whose applications streamline invoicing operations for companies and freelancers to save time in growing their business. The company was founded in 2014 and acquired by Ricoh in 2018 to strengthen their portfolio of digital services.

At MakeLeaps we prioritize our people, which is reflected in our culture and work style; while employees can go into the office, we enabled full remote work in 2020 and never looked back.

MakeLeaps is a SaaS vendor whose applications streamline invoicing operations for companies and freelancers to save time in growing their business. The company was founded in 2014 and acquired by Ricoh in 2018 to strengthen their portfolio of digital services.

At MakeLeaps we prioritize our people, which is reflected in our culture and work style; while employees can go into the office, we enabled full remote work in 2020 and never looked back.

We value work-life balance and enjoy a flex time system that allows for any work style. Our diverse team makes for an open and welcoming workplace--about half of our colleagues are women and about half are from countries outside Japan.

Position overview

As an application developer you will be responsible for development of new features for our flagship SaaS product MakeLeaps. You will be primarily working on frontend development in React, while contributing to backend development in Python. You will collaborate closely with designers and product managers in new feature development

Main responsibilities

Development of MakeLeaps’ React frontend and Python backend code

Involvement in planning, designing, implementing, and testing for development projects

Collaboration with designers and product managers, participation in code reviews

Development environment

Tech stack: JavaScript/Typescript (React), Python (Django)

OS: Primarily macOS for software development

Test frameworks: Python (pytest, Selenium), Javascript/TypeScript (Vite, Storybook, Cypress), CI (CircleCI, Github)

Database: PostgreSQL

Version control: Git

Essential skills & experience

3+ years of web development experience

Experience with HTML/CSS and JavaScript/TypeScript

Strong React development experience or other related frameworks such as Vue.js or Angular. Emphasis on building out new UI & UX features to fit product requirements/specifications.

Experience/familiarity with Python/Django

Ability to write clean, quality code

Experience collaborating with other teams, particularly design teams

Experience working with databases, ORMs, and database migrations

“Nice to have” skills & experience

Experience migrating frontend code

Experience with Tailwind CSS

Experience deploying a project into production alone or as part of a group; interest in seeing substantial contributions to such projects that you can point to

Experience with Wagtail or Wordpress

Conversational Japanese ability

Benefits, perks, etc.

Standard social and health insurance fully provided

Learning & wellness allowance of up to ¥5000/month

Annual health checkup

MacBook Air/Pro provided

Casual dress code

Application process*

Document screening

HR screening

2nd (technical) interview

Final interview

Offer

Subject to change on a case-by-case basis