Backend developer jobs in Japan: Java, Python, Go, .NET and Node.js roles

2,590 open backend and full stack roles at 1,028 companies in Japan: Full stack (379), Backend engineering (2,192). None of them states a citizenship or security-check demand. 7 mention relocation support.

Rebuilt 23 Oct 2026
open roles
2,590
companies
1,028
open to any nationality
100%
median stated pay
$51k

Companies hiring

CompanyOpen rolesAny nationalityRelocation
Hitachi69100%
NTT DATA34100%
Internet Initiative Japan29100%
System Support25100%
LY Corporation25100%
TISI23100%
CyberAgent22100%
Totec20100%
SoftBank Corp18100%
Broadleaf18100%
Rakuten18100%
ITOCHU Techno-Solutions18100%
Mercari17100%
NEC16100%
Smaregi15100%

Newest roles

ASKUL

askul.co.jp
askul.co.jp • HQ: Tokyo, Japan • B2B Commerce • Office Supplies & Stationery • Est. 1997 • Trust C • Hiring 21, 1 new
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • B2B Commerce • Office Supplies & Stationery • Est. 1997 • Trust C • Hiring 21, 1 new
ASKUL is a Tokyo company founded in 1997 that delivers office supplies and business goods with next day service. It runs highly automated distribution centres and the LOHACO consumer site operated with the LY group. The company combines e-commerce with its own logistics network across Japan.
No named decision-maker yet.
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 2 hours ago 11 hours ago Hiring now · 86%

購買連携システム_webアプリケーションエンジニア

$32k – $65k per year • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time
Kotlin
TypeScript
SQL
Java
Java
Spring Boot
Databases
Oracle
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
OpenAI Codex
Claude Code
Copilot
DevOps
Amazon ECS
GitHub
Docker
CI/CD
AWS
+7
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Likely inactiveVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 months ago Long shot · 5%

DXソリューション_輸配送(リードエンジニア)

$36k – $65k per year • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time
Kotlin
Java
Databases
Oracle
Amazon Aurora
MySQL
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
GitHub
Terraform
Docker
GCP
AWS
+3
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hacomono

hacomono.co.jp
hacomono.co.jp • HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Fitness • Club Management • 1001-5000 employees • Hiring 19, 1 new
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Fitness • Club Management • 1001-5000 employees • Hiring 19, 1 new
hacomono is a Japanese technology company whose mission is to take the wellness industry to a new dimension with software for the sector. It hires platform engineers, engineering managers, corporate IT staff focused on zero-trust security, business operations planners and legal specialists, and holds ISO 27001 information security certification for parts of its business. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
No named decision-maker yet.
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 4 hours ago 1 day ago Hiring now · 86%

IoTバックエンドエンジニア

$39k – $71k per year • In office (Tokyo, Japan)
Ruby
TypeScript
Python
DevOps
WebSockets
Amazon Kinesis
API Gateway
Terraform
Rest API
CI/CD
AWS
IoT
MQTT
+3
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 29 days ago Fading · 35%

プロダクトエンジニア

$58k – $97k per year • In office (Tokyo, Japan)
Ruby
TypeScript
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
Google BigQuery
MySQL
Frontend
Vue.js
Nuxt.js
DevOps
CircleCI
AWS Fargate
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2
Amazon ECS
GitHub Actions
Ansible
Jenkins
GitHub
Terraform
Docker
GCP
AWS
Management
Jira
+14
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IVRy

ivry.jp
ivry.jp • HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Conversational AI • Startup • Trust C • Hiring 38, 4 new
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Conversational AI • Startup • Trust C • Hiring 38, 4 new
IVRy is a Japanese software company that offers a conversational voice AI service for automatic telephone answering. Its SaaS starts from a free plan, is used by more than 35,000 accounts across Japan, and the company hires product managers, customer success and sales operations staff. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.
No named decision-maker yet.
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 3 hours ago 1 day ago Hiring now · 86%

E21.ソフトウェアエンジニア(対話AIプロダクト開発 / Python)

In office (Tokyo, Japan)
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Python
FastAPI
Asyncio
Databases
DynamoDB
PostgreSQL
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
WebSockets
Amazon ECS
GitHub
Terraform
AWS
Management
Linear
+9
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 16 days ago Likely open · 50%

E12. スタッフソフトウェアエンジニア(SaaSプラットフォーム)

In office (Tokyo, Japan)
Ruby
TypeScript
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
OpenAI Codex
Devin
Cursor
Claude Code
LLM
DevOps
Datadog
GitHub Actions
GitHub
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Management
Linear
+9
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Enigmo

enigmo.co.jp
enigmo.co.jp • HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Marketplaces • E-commerce Platforms • Trust D • Hiring 11, 1 new
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Marketplaces • E-commerce Platforms • Trust D • Hiring 11, 1 new
Enigmo is a Japanese internet company that operates BUYMA, a fashion marketplace for buying products from overseas. It is expanding into travel services, real estate platforms, HR and healthcare through new ventures and acquisitions, and hires engineers and legal staff. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
No named decision-maker yet.
No careers mailbox known
$39k – $65k per year • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time
Ruby
Go
Python
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
ElasticSearch
OpenSearch
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
Vertex AI
Gemini
Cursor
Claude Code
LLM
DevOps
Datadog
GitLab
Platform Engineering
GitHub
Docker
Linux
GCP
Kubernetes
Management
Jira
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Likely inactiveVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 months ago Long shot · 3%

プロダクトエンジニア(PM経験歓迎/事業KPIに向き合う開発組織)

$45k – $58k per year • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time
SQL
Ruby
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
MySQL
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
Frontend
Redux
Webpack
JQuery
Sass
DevOps
GitLab
GitHub
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
AWS
Design
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
+11
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Money Forward

moneyforward.com
moneyforward.com • HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Personal Finance Apps & Education • Accounting & Tax Software • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2012 • Trust B • Hiring 112, 2 new
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Personal Finance Apps & Education • Accounting & Tax Software • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2012 • Trust B • Hiring 112, 2 new
Money Forward is a Japanese financial technology company founded in 2012 that runs both a consumer money management application and a suite of cloud accounting and back-office software for businesses. The business half has become the more valuable: Japanese small companies ran their accounting on desktop software and paper for decades, and cloud adoption there started later and is now moving faster than in most developed markets. Headquartered in Tokyo and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, it aggregates data from thousands of Japanese financial institutions, which is a substantial integration estate few competitors could rebuild.
No named decision-maker yet.
No careers mailbox known
Top 25% payVerified live · 3 hours ago 1 day ago Hiring now · 90%

【シニアソフトウェアエンジニア(IC/テックリード候補)】AIOps部_東京

$615k – $1.2M per year • In office (Tokyo, Japan, 10am - 7pm) • Full-Time
TypeScript
Python
Python
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LangGraph
OpenAI
LangChain
DevOps
AWS Lambda
AIOps
Amazon S3
Windows
Kubernetes
AWS
+5
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$428k – $545k per year • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time
PHP
PHP
WordPress
Management
Miro
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APPLE WORLD

appleworld.co.jp
appleworld.co.jp • Seoul • Tokyo • Travel Technology • Travel Agencies • Trust B • Hiring 6, 1 new
Seoul • Tokyo • Travel Technology • Travel Agencies • Trust B • Hiring 6, 1 new
APPLE WORLD is a Japanese travel company that provides hotel and airline ticket booking and BPO services. Its B2B travel platform is used by more than 5,000 travel agencies with hotel inventory in 208 countries, and it also runs the consumer service Travelist and Tabiyory for overseas agencies, with a branch in Seoul, hiring frontend, backend and engineering managers. The company is based in Japan.
No named decision-maker yet.
No careers mailbox known
$39k – $52k per year • In office (Tokyo, Japan)
PHP
TypeScript
Python
Node JS
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Claude Code
DevOps
Google Cloud Run
GitHub Actions
Docker
GCP
gRPC
Management
Linear
+5
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Open 129 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 4 months ago Long shot · 5%

バックエンドエンジニア募集|国内ホールセール事業 / BtoC事業

$32k – $45k per year • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time
PHP
TypeScript
JavaScript
PHP
Laravel
Databases
Redis
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
OpenAI Codex
ChatGPT
Claude Code
Frontend
Vue.js
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
Google Cloud Run
Terraform
GCP
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Skills these roles ask for

AWS 1,170TypeScript 913GitHub 829Python 721Slack 693GCP 570Docker 553React.js 548MySQL 511CI/CD 465JavaScript 443Java 432Terraform 428PostgreSQL 428GitHub Actions 420Claude Code 414

Where the roles are

Tokyo 1,935Osaka 93Yokohama 53Nagoya 51Fukuoka 44Kawasaki 32Sapporo 31Minato 26Kyoto 23Sendai 15

Backend roles that fit you

Tell us your stack once: new backend roles that fit it arrive in your matches every day.

Questions

Can a foreigner apply for these roles?

2,590 of the 2,590 roles here state no citizenship or security-check demand. A role that does says so in its advert, and the card marks it.

Which companies hire most backend developers?

Hitachi (69), NTT DATA (34), Internet Initiative Japan (29), System Support (25), LY Corporation (25).

Which roles count as backend developer jobs?

Every role whose work is the server side of software - backend, API, platform and full stack developers, staff engineers and technical leads - at any employer. A role is filed under a language when its title names one (Java, Python, .NET, Go, Node.js, PHP, C++, Ruby, Rust); a "Software Engineer" that names none is a backend engineer's.

How fresh is this?

Every role is re-checked on the employer's own careers board at least every 48 hours, and the page is rebuilt every night.

Source: 2,590 live postings on employers' careers boardsUpdated 23 Oct 2026MethodologyJSONCC BY-SA 4.0