About GIG-A:
はじめまして /hajimemashite/ 'nice to meet you'
We are a financial technology company that makes banking easy in Japan. GIG-A helps customers open a local bank account, manage everyday spending and transfer money.
About your role:
Your mission as an early joiner in the product engineering team is to help customers safely onboard to GIG-A services and to assure they can reliably manage their everyday spending via payments, cards, and cash withdrawals.
Objectives of your role:
- Build multi-platform application for iOS and Android using the Flutter, build highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive and secure user experiences and measurable business growth.
- Develop new features and infrastructure in support of rapidly emerging business and product requirements.
- Assume initiative to propose and deliver a compelling technical solution from early proof-of-concept to testing against user requirements to market-ready release.
- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application UX/UI design.
Daily and monthly responsibilities:
- Design and build multiplatform application, for Android and iOS using the Flutter development framework, Dart language, optimized for security, speed and scale.
- Participate in all aspects of iterative software development including design, implementation, testing, deployment, publishing, and troubleshooting.
- Search, learn, and familiarize yourself with current tech trends. Discover and implement new technologies that yield a competitive advantage.
- Collaborate across multiple ethnic cultures via Slack, Jira comments, Confluence documents, and frequent video conferences.
- Teach your colleagues about Flutter, Dart best practices, hacks, your recommended components.
Team and Culture:
- Born global and born remote
We are nomads with the world as our home. We demonstrate with kind actions that every employee belongs to our 一門 /ichimon/ 'clan'.
- We are our customers
It's personal, because we have lived through the pain of the underbanked. We empathise with our customers and adapt to their feedback.
- Bring choices to the table
We are proactive in seeking out challenges and opportunities. We are transparent in communication and propose multiple courses of action to deliver a solution.
- Become a learning machine
We continuously upskill to achieve freedom of manoeuvre with our team and to triumph over challenges.
Required skills and qualifications:
- Experience in development of Android/iOS applications and have deployed them on Google Play/App Store.
- 2+ years of experience developing and delivering Flutter based apps.
- Good understanding of state management, Flutter flavors and app architecture.
- Knowledge of Dart programming language, Rest APIs and integration of various APIs from third parties.
- Bonus points for experience working with Kotlin, AWS, CI/CD, RDS, Postgrese, dealing with Apple issues.
- You are motivated by the impact that your work has.
- You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development.
- Fluent English is a must.
- You are a confident communicator. Communicating with teammates, collecting requirements, describing test cases, way of execution, results, demoing work in progress, and providing updates are integral parts of your work.
- You have a self-starter mindset: you enjoy working in a fast-paced team where you can take the initiative. You are autonomous and independent, but you also know when to collaborate with the rest of the team.
- You are a risk-taker: you’re not afraid of challenges, and you think being questioned on your assumptions and decisions helps you grow.
- Previous experience with building finance/banking products.
- Bonus points if you speak Japanese.
What we offer:
- Continuous learning environment.
- Improve your technical skill-set.
- Trust and freedom.
- Supportive and highly skilled team members.
- Great culture of transparency and openness.
- Opportunity to make a real impact in customers’ lives.
