I’m supporting one of Japan’s best-known consumer internet companies, now expanding from a leading food and recipe platform into a much broader commerce, retail data, and AI business.
The company already has:
41M monthly users across its consumer ecosystem
44M+ downloads for its flagship app
A fast-growing shopping app with 15M+ downloads
2.9M monthly active users
466% annual growth
The product has already achieved PMF and is now entering a true 10→100 scaling phase. The bigger vision is even more ambitious. By combining receipt OCR data, purchase history, location data, recipe behavior, and first-party consumer data, the company is building infrastructure to transform Japan’s ¥156T consumer market and eventually make supply chains more AI-native.
As Backend Tech Lead, you’ll own some of the hardest technical problems behind that growth:
Backend architecture and technical strategy
Re-architecture without disrupting a live consumer service
Scalability and performance as traffic continues to grow
Technical debt reduction and platform modernization
System design and engineering standards
Mentoring and design/code reviews
AI-driven development across the engineering organization
You’ll also work with integrations and traffic from major consumer platforms such as SmartNews and Yahoo! JAPAN.
Why this role stands out:
Massive real-world consumer scale
Rare first-party dataset combining purchase, location, behavioral, and content data
Real architecture ownership, not just feature delivery
Strong IC path for engineers who want to stay technical
Company-wide push toward AI-native engineering
Up to ¥100,000/month for AI tools
Modern data stack with Snowflake, dbt, BigQuery and AWS
Strong financial backing as part of a major Japanese internet group
Up to ¥20M Tokyo, Hybrid: 3 days office / 2 days remote
Ideal for senior Backend Engineers or Tech Leads who want to solve real scaling, architecture, and platform problems on a product already used by millions. DM me for the full JD and interview process.