Software Engineer

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Job Description

This role is a consulting position that demands collaborative work with both clients and colleagues within cross-functional product teams. Essential attributes include strong communication skills, technical proficiency, empathy, humility, and a thorough grasp of lean startup and agile values, principles, and methodologies.

As a software engineer, your daily tasks involve partnering with client software engineers, guiding them while collectively defining, validating, communicating, and executing product vision and strategy. You'll collaborate with a team comprising product managers, designers, and engineers to empower your client team for sustained efficiency.

Operating within an early-stage team, this role is designed to be dynamic, seeking individuals capable of growing alongside the evolving demands of the team. Given its status as a new business line, you'll contribute to shaping the entire consulting framework at Code Chrysalis.

Responsibilities

• Working with client engineers to enable them in software development practices and/or application modernization practices.
• Working with clients and other Code Chrysalis engineers to build/modernize software based on the team’s backlog.
• Transferring knowledge to the client.
• Enabling client leadership to grow their own engineering practice.
• Contributing to homegrown Code Chrysalis consulting methodologies and frameworks.

Qualifications

Need to Have:

• Over 8 years of Software Development experience across various programming languages and frameworks.
• Possess a degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Ability to construct distributed, service-oriented, and microservice application architectures.
• Demonstrated strong architectural aptitude with the capability to propose and implement designs aligned with customer requirements.
• Experience in the modernization of legacy applications/systems using languages such as Java or C#/.NET.
• Willingness to work in an agile environment, rather than a waterfall one.
• Passion for skill enhancement, problem-solving, and engaging work.
• Proficiency in training, mentoring, or upskilling others.
• Adaptability to new environments and clients.
• Excellent teamwork skills, enabling collaboration across diverse roles within product teams.

Nice to Have:

• Proficient in multiple programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, Go)
• Practiced in Agile methodologies, including extreme programming, test-driven development, pairing, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and Domain Driven Design
• Teaching background is advantageous
• Demonstrated experience in client interaction, project leadership, and engineer mentoring
• Hands-on involvement with client engagement
• Proficiency in supporting production systems utilizing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Familiarity with automation and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Chef, Ansible, or BOSH
• Extensive expertise in full-stack development
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or OpenStack
• Sound comprehension of systems monitoring, alerting, and analytics
• Additional technical product and program management skills are desirable

About the Company

Code Chrysalis helps people and companies transform through software engineering training. Our business is twofold:

• for individuals, we have coding bootcamps and classes to make career shifts
• for enterprise, we provide services for everything from reskilling to onboarding software teams

Our team has raised $1.4 million from Benesse, the largest education conglomerate in Japan, and our enterprise clientele includes some of the largest names.

We are the leading player in a massive and growing market to help enterprise in Japan upskill and reskill software engineering teams, but we are still early enough for you to make a big impact.

Employment Conditions

• Contract Type: Full-time employee (including 3 months probationary period)
• Working hours: 09:00~18:00 (1 hour lunch break, 8 hours work)
• Flextime: Flexible working hours depending on role
• Salary: 9M ~ 15M JPY (may vary depending on skills and experience)
• Vacations: 2 days off per week, Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, annual paid vacations (20 days granted after the second year), childcare leave, menstrual leave, etc.
• Various benefits: Includes employee pension insurance and social insurance
• Transportation expenses paid
• VISA acquisition support system available
• Environment：Remote work possible, free dress code, many employees are from overseas, diverse and inclusive workplace

Corporate Culture

Core Values

Are you ready to embark on a journey of transformation, shaping the future of software engineering? At Code Chrysalis, we're not just another tech company - we're a community driven by our core values, paving the way for authenticity, agility, and world-class excellence in everything we do.

1. Be Authentic - Stand out, be transparent, and embrace your uniqueness. We champion courage over comfort, and we are building a culture where authenticity thrives!
2. Minimum Viable Everything - Embrace speed, adaptability, and agility. We believe in iterating, experimenting, and failing fast to achieve our goals.
3. Be World-Class - Pursue excellence, innovation, and global perspective. Together, we'll set the bar high, exceed expectations, and lead by example in our industry.

If you're passionate about making a difference, eager to learn and grow, and ready to push the boundaries of what's possible, we want YOU to join our team at Code Chrysalis!