If you want to work in Japan but have no Japanese skills, being an engineer is a vast opportunity. As the country struggles with a labor shortage, many companies in Japan are hiring foreign engineers. Here are our picks of IT Engineer Jobs in Japan with no Japanese skill requirement and various minimum experience.
DevOps Engineer
Company: DMM Eikaiwa
Employment type: Full-time
Location: Tokyo
Salary: not informed
Overseas application: yes
Japanese skill: not required
If you hear eikaiwa, you must be thinking of English teaching jobs. But not now! Japan’s biggest online language learning platform, DMM Eikaiwa is looking for a DevOps engineer. You will be responsible for maintaining and developing the infrastructure of their products, which are DMM Eikaiwa, Engoo, and iKnow!. The requirements include experience in a DevOps role and web application development, proficiency with Linux, Kubernetes, and AWS, and an understanding of security. If you are applying overseas, DMM Eikaiwa will give you 150,000 JPY moving support, two months of accommodation, and payment for the guarantor fee for the first apartment. They also can provide you with Japanese interpretation assistance and Japanese lessons.
Apply to DMM Eikaiwa
Software Engineer
Company: Shippio
Employment type: Full-time
Location: Tokyo
Salary: JPY 4,500,000 - 7,500,000 annually
Overseas application: no
Japanese skill: not required
Shippio, a technology company working on digitalizing international trading, is hiring a junior software engineer. If you have 1-year experience in backend application development and know how to implement modern UI and a sound API, you are welcome to apply. It’s a partially remote job where you only need to visit the office once a week. Even better, you will also get full transportation coverage. Shippio offers an international environment in their development team, so you only need fluent English skills. However, they are willing to support online or offline Japanese classes if you want to take one.
Apply to Shippio
Applied Machine Learning Tech Lead
Company: SmartNews
Employment type: Full-time
Location: Tokyo
Salary:
Overseas application: yes
Japanese skill: not required
Are you interested in working with one of the Japanese unicorns? SmartNews is currently looking for leads for their global machine learning team. You must be experienced in developing the prediction, optimization, or other relevant systems for the online web service and products, leading and mentoring engineers, and familiar with the architecture and implementation mechanisms of at least one mainstream machine learning programming framework. SmartNews provides free healthy lunch and in-house coffee shops in their Tokyo office. SmartNews offers visa sponsorship and relocation support if you are applying overseas.
Apply to SmartNews
Android Developer
Company: nanameue
Employment type: Full-time
Location: Tokyo
Salary: JPY 5,000,000 - 8,000,000 annually
Overseas application: yes
Japanese skill: not required
Your primary duty is to develop mobile applications downloaded more than 40M+ times. You must have 3+ years of building applications for Android devices using Java and Kotlin and 3+ years of object-oriented software development experience. As a senior, you will also Code review and mentor junior developers.
Nanameue has a special offer For overseas candidates: Visa Support, Re-location assistance to help you start your life in Tokyo, including first-time airfare to Tokyo, and a hotel room for two weeks while we help you search for housing.
We will subsidize books, language courses, conference tickets, and even paid apps.
Apply here nanameue
Full Stack Web Engineer (Team Lead)
Company: Scoville
Employment type: Full-time
Location: Tokyo
Salary: JPY 6,000,000 -9,000,000 annually
Overseas application: yes
Japanese skill: not required
Scoville is looking for a senior full-stack web engineer. You must have 3+ years of recent commercial programming, experience working with backend languages, and an expert understanding of JavaScript and Single Page Applications (SPA). You will be a leader, so you are expected to mentor and guide the team. Scoville consists of people from around 15 different countries. Don’t worry. They use English as their primary language. They offer various benefits such as new tech gear, book purchases, language learning support, and translation support. Most importantly, they are willing to sponsor visas for applicants inside and outside Japan.
Apply to Scovile
These vacancies can be filled anytime, so apply as soon as possible. Tokhimo will not update the vacancy status in this article. Visit Tokhimo Jobs for new opportunities in Japan!
