Staff Engineer (Full-stack, backend-heavy)

Product & Engineering

I'm Max 👋🏻, the Founder and CEO. As we continue to pioneer the e-commerce landscape between Japan and the global market, we're seeking multiple product-focused, highly experienced full-stack engineers to join us in our ambitious growth plans.

What we do

White Rabbit Japan is working to elevate e-commerce between Japanese sellers and overseas buyers. At the core of this effort are our Japan Rabbit and Blackship products. Japan Rabbit makes buying from Japan hassle-free for thousands of people and businesses worldwide. Blackship makes forwarding packages from Japan faster and easier for businesses and individuals.

🔍 Tech Stack:

Frontend: Vue.js, Tailwind
Backend: Node, Hasura, Prisma, Postgres
Infrastructure: GCP, Cloudflare
Languages: TypeScript for the product; Python for AI, Analytics, and Bots; C# for hardware integrations

As a Staff Engineer at White Rabbit, you will:

Own the architecture, quality, maintainability, and scalability of entire areas of our products from idea to production and beyond.
Design and implement systems and integrations that align our operational, financial, and commercial platforms.
Define and oversee engineering best practices, technical standards, sustainability guidelines, and the long-term technology roadmap.
Elevate the engineering bar, instilling a mindset of high-quality coding, thorough testing, and efficient deployment, as well as evaluation and adoption of emerging industry trends
Collaborate with the organization's founder and team members on problem-solving and feature design.
Support our operations team by rapidly addressing urgent ops issues when required.
Maintain multiple products, including customer-facing surfaces, backend systems, databases, micro-services, third-party APIs, and hardware devices.

Minimum Qualifications

You have 8+ years of engineering experience with demonstrable growth and skills in:

Working in a high-growth tech startup environment
Expert-level Nodejs and at least one other stack/language
UI frameworks such as Vue or React
Data modeling and complex relational database design with advanced SQL
GCP, AWS, Azure, or similar cloud computing platforms (we use GCP).
Remote work experience and excellent written communication

Preferred Qualifications

Experience using Hasura, GraphQL.
Knowledge of security-by-design.
Experience with e-commerce-related operational and financial systems
Experience with implementing AI agents, assistants, and APIs both for day-to-day work and for product integrations
Technical leadership and coaching/mentoring experience

Learn more about our company culture in our Handbook

Interested? Let's shape the future of eCommerce together, ensuring White Rabbit Japan remains at the forefront of innovation and excellence. I look forward to potentially working closely with you!

Time Zone Alignment

Seeking candidates who can ensure a minimum of 4 hours of working time overlap with our core business hours between 10am-7pm JST.