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Software dev jobs in Japan
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Companies

  • Github - Recently started hiring developers in Tokyo
  • Heroku - Infrastructure-as-a-service; recently bought by Salesforce
  • Pivotal Labs - Recently started hiring developers in Tokyo; nice Mori Tower office
  • Google - Consistently ranked best place in Japan to work; nice Mori Tower office
  • Amazon - I THINK they now hire some developers
  • Microsoft - English-friendly with chances to speak Japanese; apparently have some interesting projects; nice Shinagawa office
  • Kaizen Platform - Pretty awesome company developing A/B testint as a service / analytics services; I think most people there speak English; has an office in San Francisco
  • Treasure Data - Awesome company developing data analytics/logging products (fluentd etc); some of them probably speak English; has an office in San Francisco
  • CyberAgent (and CyberZ) - Big company; rich as hell; lots of foreigners; considered one of the best mid-sized Japanese tech companies to work for
  • DeNa - Big company; rich as hell; lots of foreigners; might be kinda black though, depending on the team; nice Hikarie office
  • Goldman Sachs - Self-explanatory; nice Mori Tower office
  • Barclay's - Self-explanatory; nice Mori Tower office
  • Morgan Stanley - Self-explanatory, might require Japamese (the other major investment banks don't really)
  • Nomura - Might require some Japanese
  • etc. (I'm not too familiar with the investment bank-type/gaishikei companies)
  • Smartnews - Might require Japanese but if not it's a great company; runs one of the top Japanese news apps; actually hard tech interview; free food; nice Shibuya office
  • Gunosy - Might require Japanese; Post-IPO and profitable; runs another very popular news app and a large ad network; nice Mori Tower office
  • Recruit Holdings - This company is massive and can be awesome if you get the right team; there MIGHT be a couple of teams that don't require Japanese ability; look around you on the train, half the ads you see will be for this company's services
  • MediWeb - Decent place to work supposedly; 100% pair programming
  • Voyagin - Small start-up that runs a travel recommendation service; around half foreigners; recently bought by Rakuten so less risky than some other start-ups
  • Cookpad - Insanely popular recipe sharing service; I've heard it's kind of black from multiple Japanese people, but there are definitely good positions for foreigners; sweet Ebisu Garden Place office
  • VoyageGroup - Runs a bunch of different services; pretty decent place to work from what I've heard
  • Abeja - Start-up that does analysis of people's shopping patterns in stores using cameras and stuff, sounds interesting; might not require Japanese
  • Rakuten - Self-explanatory; I hear the research lab is great, the rest of the company is hit-or-miss by team; definitely English-friendly
  • Gengo - Translation service, lots of foreigners; wouldn't require Japanese I don't think
  • LINE - I've heard it's black but it definitely depends on the team
  • Finc - Mobile health tech; might be English-friendly
  • M3 - I think they require Japanese, but it's a very impressive company; they run a social network for doctors
  • Wantedly - Progressive job-search service with female ex-facebook CEO; might be English-friendly
  • Crowdworks - Crowdsourcing, kind of like Japanese MechanicalTurk; very profitable
  • Mercari - Incredibly successful "flea market" app; might require Japanese
  • Spee - Adtech etc; fairly successful apparently
  • Indeed - Self-explanatory --- from here down most require Japanese ---
  • peroli (Mery.jp) - Runs Mery, recently aquired by DeNa
  • Eureka - Makes everyone's favorite Japanese tinder clone, "Pairs"; recently had an IPO
  • FreakOut - Highly profitable company doing ad tech etc.
  • Pixiv - Kind of like the Japanese deviantart
  • Freee - Cloud accounting startup, recently raised $30M
  • Retty - Makes a popular restaurant search app
  • Yahoo - Self-explanatory
  • MoneyForward - Makes apps that help you manage your money and stuff I think
  • Fast Retailing - Parent company for Uniqlo and others; pays fairly well apparently
  • DMM - Started as a porn company but has branched out
  • Degica - eCommerce platform; might not require Japanese
  • GMO - Huge company; might have something good somewhere
  • Gree - Lots of foreigners but apparently very black (likely depends on team though); pays pretty well
  • Kakaku.com - Runs Kakaku and Tabelog; pays pretty well; might be kinda black
  • Lang-8 - Runs Lang-8 and HiNative; might be English-friendly
  • iKnow - Runs language-learning service iKnow; recently aquired by DMM

Links

  • Companies that allow remote work in Japan
  • Hacker News job threads - Lots of remote job opportunities
  • Forkwell - Japanese job search site; tons of jobs with min. salary of 5-6 million or more; filter by programming language
  • WeWorkRemotely - more remote jobs
  • Vorkers - Japanese Glassdoor basically; to get full access you need to either write a review (which is a huge pain in the ass), or pay for a premium membership; can still get overall rating without signing up though
  • Wantedly - Lots of start-up jobs and some from bigger companies; literally just click a button and interested companies will respond
  • Indeed
  • Heikin Nenshuu - check salary stats for companies (any public company should be listed); e.g. Cookpad, M3, Cyberagent, Recruit
  • I won't link to specific recruiters because there are a million, they're easy to find, and everyone likes different ones
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ByteDance/Tiktok is hiring in Japan: https://job.toutiao.com/s/J7N27Wt

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