I'm moving from Tokyo to New York, and looking for a strong front-end dev to take my place at GILT Japan, an awesome client I've worked with over the past year.
Tokyo is an awesome and modern city, but most tech work here is anything but. GILT is different; it's basically a mature US startup transplanted smack in the middle of the city. If you're well-versed in building modern JavaScript apps, you should seriously check them out.
Some perks off the top of my head:
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You work in the sweet spot between a startup and an established company. GILT is big enough to offer a competitive salary, sponsor your visa, and even be a guarantor for your apartment (a big deal in Tokyo), but still small enough to let you work flexible hours in a flat org of young, friendly folks.
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You can work on a modern stack on your preferred flavor of MacBook. The current app is a Backbone in CoffeeScript built with Browserify on Node, and the team is looking at Angular for the upcoming mobile app.
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You don't need to speak Japanese; your teammates are a diverse group of people from all over Asia and Europe, with a common tongue of English. There's plenty of opportunity if you do want to brush up your Japanese, as most of the company is local, and GILT will even subsidize your Japanese lessons.
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You work in Ginza, one of the most bustling parts of Tokyo, right down the street from the freshest fish in the world, a hard-working guy named JIRO, more three-star Michelin restaurants than any other city on earth, and ramen, ramen, ramen.
It's a great gig unlike any other in the city, so if you have any questions or want an introduction, please drop me a line at where@jed.is.
Tightttt. I'd kill to move to Tokyo. If only they were looking for a Rails developer.....