■Data Engineer | Big Data & Generative AI Startup
Salary: JPY 7,000,000–13,000,000
Location: Japan
Work Style: Flexible hybrid — choose office or remote work each day
Language: Business-level Japanese required
Visa Support: Available
A university-born technology startup is looking for Data Engineers to build data platforms and products using large-scale alternative data.
The company works with unique datasets such as credit card transactions, POS data, location data, job posting data, and commercial real estate data. These datasets are used to support business and policy decision-making across industries including finance, real estate, HR, enterprise DX, and the public sector.
This is an opportunity to work not only on internal data infrastructure, but also on customer-facing analytics products, enterprise data platforms, and generative AI solutions.
■What You Will Work On
As a Data Engineer, you will work with mission-critical data that directly powers the company’s products and client solutions.
Depending on your experience and career interests, you may be involved in:
- Designing, building, testing, and operating scalable data platforms
- Developing and operating data pipelines for in-house SaaS analytics products
- Processing large-scale alternative datasets, including payment, POS, location, and labor market data
- Building data platforms and analytics environments for enterprise clients
- Supporting generative AI and data utilization projects
- Improving data quality, reliability, monitoring, and operational efficiency
- Collaborating with product managers, consultants, analysts, and engineers
Your team and project assignment will be discussed based on your experience, strengths, and future career goals.
■Products & Business Areas
The company develops data products and solutions including:
- Alternative data analytics for institutional investors
- Consumer spending indices based on payment data
- Daily price indices using POS data
- Labor market indicators based on job posting data
- Commercial real estate data and DX solutions
- Enterprise data platform and generative AI solutions
- Analytics and AI solutions for local governments and public institutions
■Technical Environment
Languages: Python, SQL
Data Platforms: Snowflake, Amazon Redshift
Data Engineering: dbt, Airflow
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Terraform, Docker
Other Technologies: Vue.js, React, OpenAI APIs
Technology choices may vary depending on the product or client project.
■Requirements
・Required
- Experience developing and operating systems as part of a team
- Hands-on experience developing and operating applications or data systems using Python
- Experience building and operating data analytics platforms
- Experience developing and operating cloud infrastructure
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
- Experience working with container technologies such as Docker
- Business-level Japanese communication skills
・Preferred
- Experience communicating directly with clients or business stakeholders
- Experience with ETL or ELT tools such as dbt, Dataform, or AWS Glue
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
- Knowledge of data management frameworks such as DMBOK
- Experience leading, mentoring, or supporting engineering team members
・Why Join?
- Work with large-scale, high-value datasets that are difficult to access elsewhere
- Build both internal data products and enterprise-facing data platforms
- Gain exposure to data engineering, analytics SaaS, and generative AI projects
- Contribute to decision-making across finance, real estate, HR, and the public sector
- Choose projects and teams based on your experience and career interests
- Work in a flexible hybrid environment with strong support for continuous learning
■Work Environment & Benefits
Work Style
- Flexible hybrid work, with office or remote work selectable each day
- Flexible working hours
- Childcare support, including childcare time allowances
Compensation & Benefits
- Full social insurance coverage
- Transportation allowance of up to JPY 150,000 per month
- Housing allowance of JPY 50,000 per month for eligible employees living within 3 km of the office
- Annual learning and development budget of JPY 120,000
- Employee stock ownership plan with a 50% company incentive
- Stock option program
- Visa support available
- Company-provided laptop
- Health checkup support
Holidays & Leave
- Full two-day weekends, Saturday and Sunday
- Annual paid leave
- Year-end and New Year holidays
- Bereavement and other special leave