Industrial Placement, Software Engineering

More than 200 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. We're looking for an Industrial Placement, Software Engineering. Our Internal Tools team is five engineers working fully remote across two time zones. The intern picks up small backend tickets first and moves to bigger features once comfortable. You can work from home anywhere in Japan. We have no office requirement. Few meetings, lots of written updates.

You'll help with:

• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.

You should be:

• Available for the full internship period.
• Eligible to work in Japan.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.

6 months, starting Jan 2027. Stipend: ¥195,000 - ¥260,000 per month.

Perks: Company laptop, Mentorship, Flexible hours.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Ikeda Online, Inc..