Starting my first IT job in Fukuoka in April 2027 — how much can I realistically save?

I have 8+ years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer, primarily in Frontend (React, TypeScript), with 4+ years of Full-Stack/Backend experience using Go and Node.js.

I’m hoping to relocate to Japan with my spouse and child, but I only speak English. I’ve been struggling to find suitable roles at English-friendly tech companies like Mercari, Money Forward, and Rakuten.

Would applying through recruitment agencies be a realistic alternative, especially since many opportunities seem to be contract-based?

My main concern is finding a stable role that can support my family long-term, rather than simply getting my foot in the door.

I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through a similar process or has experience with Japan’s tech job market.

I currently work in Tokyo and am looking for advice on finding fully remote IT engineering jobs. I’ve noticed that most 'remote' positions here still require you to live in Japan. While I understand the legal, tax, and administrative reasons behind this, I’m specifically looking for companies that offer 'worldwide remote' or 'work from anywhere' policies. Does anyone know of specific companies that allow this, or the best job boards to find them?

Thanks!

I have cleared all the tech rounds and got an invite for the Final round. it just says Final without much details.

My first round was a HM screening round so is this just a HR round or can I expect some technical questions as well in this?

I am 23M with a small experience of 6months-1 year.

I have a bachelor's degree in computer science from year 2026. I am fluent in english and currently I am in osaka japan studying in Japanese language school.

I want to start working in japan in IT/Tech company.

Can someone tell me is it possible to get any english speaking jobs or international roles where I can slide in with a conversational level japanese ? Or do I need to get n2 certified.

Hello everyone, I'm Golang Senior Software Developer and System Analyst, 7+ years of experience, looking for job in Japan with relocation support, have question about hiring.

According to this sub, I assumed that Go jobs are in demand. I searched sites like japan-dev, Tokyodev, filtered by "apply from anywhere" and "no japanese required" (I'm around N3), got around 20 positions (40-50 with only Go filter). I applied to 4-5 "best match" positions and immediately got generic rejection with no details. Other positions are either dead or dont include Go in their tech stack, but mention Go only as "language to prove proficiency".

Then I tried several recruitment agencies - registered in G-Talent and Robert Walters but they didnt even contact me (or should they? how does general agency interaction look like?).

I also registered in LinkedIn, but I dont yet understand how to filter out those job openings by language (most of them appear in Japanese, which I cannot fully understand).

So what am I doing wrong? Is Go really in demand or I'm behind language wall and with ~N1 I could succeed? I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks in advance

Hello, My company is relocating me to Tokyo from Mumbai in Feb, my husband will join me as well on a dependent visa. He has 10+ years of experience in Embedded/Firmware Engineering and some international experience of working in Sweden, but he does not speak Japanese.
I wanted to understand and get advice from the community on what should be our timeline for applying to jobs, and general approach on how to go about this.

Hi! I’ll be in Tokyo Feb–Apr 2027 for a backend internship at Mercari, and it’s my first time in Japan. Any advice on settling in or dev meetups worth checking out? Happy to grab coffee with folks too!

Happy Friday! Have questions about tech careers in Japan? Looking to hire (or get hired)? Just want to brag? Post it here and let's discuss!

Hi everyone,

I recently applied for the Rakuten New Joiner (New Graduate) Track for the Software Engineer position in the Tokyo Division.

I have already submitted my application form, and while I wait for the next steps, I am trying to figure out what the rest of the pipeline looks like so I can prepare ahead of time. For context on my background, my Japanese language proficiency is around conversational to business level.

I would love to connect with anyone who has gone through this specific track recently. Specifically, I have a few questions:

1. Aptitude Test: What is the exact syllabus, structure, and section breakdown for the online assessment/aptitude test? Is it a standard SPI test, a general personality/math test, or a strictly technical coding platform (like HackerRank/Codility)? Are the questions in English or Japanese?

2. Overall Process: What are the stages after the online test? How many rounds of interviews should I expect, and how long does the process typically take from form submission to offer letter?

3. Language Factor: Given that my Japanese is conversational to business level, do the technical or final rounds heavily evaluate Japanese capability, or is it mostly conducted in English since it's the official internal language?

Hello,
As title says. I will be interviewing at Treasure AI soon.
I would like to know how interview rounds are like and if someone could share interview experience and tips that will be great.

Thank you

Here's our weekly list of tech and startup events in Japan, from small meetups to conferences. Going to one, or know of an event we missed? Share it in the comments!

Tuesday, October 13

AI Agents and Prediction Markets

• 🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 Tokyo

#play14 Meetup Tokyo @TiB #2

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 Tokyo Innovation Base | 👥 20 attending

Studio.Drop Open Hour #03

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 Studio株式会社(Studio, Inc.), Tokyo | 👥 27 attending

【Paper&Hacks #102】医療特化型LLMを作るには - データ編【チームHOLON】

• 🇯🇵 20:00 | 📍 (場所未定) | 👥 128 attending

Wednesday, October 14

Vibe Coders Tokyo #11 - Good Quality Apps

• 🇬🇧 19:00 | 📍 Le Wagon Tokyo - Coding & AI Bootcamp | 👥 77 attending

Explainable AI Team Seminar(Talk by Étienne Simon, University of Oslo).

• 🇬🇧 17:30 | 📍 Tokyo

Reliable agents: memory, execution state and recovery

• 🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 Tokyo

Omarchy Tokyo Night

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 19:30 | 📍 〒105-0022 東京都港区海岸1丁目2番20号 汐留ビルディング 18F, Tokyo | 👥 85 attending

Server-Side Kotlin Meetup vol.20

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 19:30 | 📍 〒141-0031　東京都品川区西五反田八丁目4番13号(五反田JPビルディング10階コドモン), Tokyo | 👥 21 attending

さくらのAI Engineユーザー会 vol.1

• 🇯🇵 19:00 | 📍 〒160-0023 東京都新宿区西新宿7-20-1 (住友不動産西新宿ビル), Tokyo | 👥 12 attending

ロンドン, ルガーノ, トリノ, 東京 Bitcoin Hub Night

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 19:00 | 📍 Tokyo Bitcoin Base | 👥 13 attending

Weekly Snack & Connect

• 🇬🇧 16:00 | 📍 Tokyo

Thursday, October 15

Physical AI Node Salon #1: Collective Ecosystem Design Across Borders

• 🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 CIC Tokyo | 👥 67 attending

Onsite event How AI is Transforming The Way We Build Software

• 🇬🇧 20:00 | 📍 Tokyo

Onsite workshop Start Building Your First AI Agent

• 🇬🇧 16:00 | 📍 Tokyo

Tokyo Tech Meetup x Career Event - Fall 2026

• 🇬🇧 14:00 | 📍 5-chōme-36-4 Shiba, Tokyo

Tech Companies Hiring in Japan - Career Event

• 🇬🇧 17:30 | 📍 5-chōme-36-4 Shiba, Tokyo

Monthly Social: 2026 Oct

• 🇬🇧 18:30 | 📍 Tokyo

RxT HirePlanner Tokyo Tech Meetup!

• 🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 Tokyo

DGX Spark / GB10 ローカルLLM勉強会 #2

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 19:00 | 📍 東京都渋谷区渋谷1-15−21 ポーラ渋谷ビル 1F, Tokyo | 👥 42 attending

Japan Angels + Pitch & Connect Live Pitching & Networking Event

• 🇬🇧 18:30 | 📍 Tokyo | 👥 43 attending

Building a Business in Japan

• 🇬🇧 18:30 | 📍 THE INDIAN COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION JAPAN (ICIJ), Tokyo

Friday, October 16

GREE Tech Conference 2026

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 13:00 | 📍 東京都港区赤坂9-7-2, Tokyo | 👥 226 attending

TLUG Nomikai / KDE 30th Anniversary Party

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 〒422-8002 東京都 港区虎ノ門2丁目2-3 虎ノ門アルセアタワー 1F, Tokyo | 👥 12 attending

AI・インフラ高すぎる問題KAIGI 2026 @神田

• 🇯🇵 19:30 | 📍 東京都千代田区神田司町2-7-6 鈴木ビル２Ｆ, Tokyo | 👥 4 attending

Arena Peak Asia Tokyo

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 10:30 | 📍 UDX Conference, Tokyo

Global Innovators Mixer

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 18:30 | 📍 Tokyo | 👥 151 attending

STORES CAFE for Women at Kaigi on Rails 2026 Day1

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 12:15 | 📍 東京都渋谷区南平台町12-8 1F, Tokyo | 👥 4 attending

How Can We “Leave No One and Nothing Behind”? | PROJECT SOLIT’s Journey

• 🇬🇧 19:30 | 📍 Tokyo

実務でのAI活用術 〜Excel・スプシ編〜 - LT Night -

• 🇯🇵 19:00 | 📍 東京都港区六本木4丁目8-5（和幸ビル 4F）, Tokyo | 👥 48 attending

Optuna Meetup #3

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 18:45 | 📍 東京都千代田区大手町１丁目６－１ 大手町ビル, Tokyo | 👥 36 attending

JOUG Meetup #1

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 19:00 | 📍 〒112-0004 東京都文京区後楽2丁目3-21 2階, Tokyo | 👥 10 attending

【福岡】GitHub Copilot Dev Day '26 - feat. Agentic Dev

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 19:30 | 📍 福岡県福岡市博多区博多駅前四丁目14番1号 博多深見パークビルディング3階, Fukuoka | 👥 23 attending

Saturday, October 17

Shibuya | Claude Meetup

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 15:00 | 📍 Tokyo

TLUG @ OSPN OSC Fall 2026

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 10:00 | 📍 〒111-0033 東京都台東区花川戸２丁目６−５, Tokyo | 👥 6 attending

Tokyo Agent Hackathon – 東京エージェントハッカソン

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 09:30 | 📍 Tokyo | 👥 68 attending

Japan Health/Bio Coffee Club

• 🇬🇧 09:00 | 📍 Tokyo | 👥 12 attending

Sunday, October 18

DevFest Kansai 2026 〜AIと最新技術を一日で総まとめするカンファレンス〜

• 🇯🇵 10:30 | 📍 大阪府大阪市北区梅田３丁目３−１ 梅田総合校舎, Osaka | 👥 850 attending

DevDay Community Hackathon

• 🇬🇧 12:30 | 📍 Tokyo | 👥 28 attending

Looking for more events? Check out our Japan Dev guides below:

• Best Tech Meetups in Tokyo
• Tech Communities in Osaka and Kyoto
• Tech Meetups and Communities in Fukuoka
• Best Tech Conferences in Japan

Compiled from Connpass, Doorkeeper, Meetup, Luma, Guild, and Tokyo Tech.

Here's a list of new tech jobs in Japan this week:

Senior Software Engineer — Platform (Atlas) at MeetsMore

• ¥7M - ¥11M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Senior SRE at MeetsMore

• ¥7M - ¥11M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Senior Security Engineer at MeetsMore

• ¥7M - ¥11M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Platform Engineer at Mujin

• ¥8M - ¥11M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Tokyo

Engineering Manager / EM - Platform at MeetsMore

• ¥8M - ¥14M | Japanese: Conversational | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Lead AI/ML Engineer at Starley

• ¥9M or more | Japanese: Conversational | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Autonomous Motion Planning & Control Engineer - Logistics AGF Team at Telexistence

• Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

R&D Project Manager at Qubitcore

• ¥8M or more | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Okinawa

Senior Software Engineer - New Markets Japan (JLPT N1 Fluent) at Alpaca

• Japanese: Business Level | Apply from overseas | Full remote WORLDWIDE

Staff Software Engineer - New Markets Japan (JLPT N1 Fluent) at Alpaca

• Japanese: Business Level | Apply from overseas | Full remote WORLDWIDE

Engineering Manager, Developer Productivity & AI — CTO Office at Money Forward

• ¥9M - ¥18M | Japanese: Business Level | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Trading Systems Support, Risk & Quant Analytics at Polymer Capital

• Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Tokyo

Senior IT Security and Compliance Specialist at Moneytree

• ¥12M - ¥13M | Japanese: Business Level | Japan residents only | Full remote

Quality Assurance Engineer (Embedded Systems) at Mujin

• ¥6M - ¥8M | Japanese: Business Level | Japan residents only | Tokyo

Technical Project Manager at Qubitcore

• ¥8M or more | Japanese: Business Level | Japan residents only | Okinawa

Also looking to hire? Feel free to share your job post in the comments!

Hi everyone,

for the last 10 years, living in Tokyo for a longer time has been my biggest dream. I’m 19, I study Computer Science in Engineering at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), and I’m now in my 3rd semester. I’m looking for an internship in Japan of up to 3 months, ideally from 1 April to 30 June 2027 (or 1 Oct to 29 Dec 2027).

What I can offer: basic programming skills (Java, C, Python), my own small project on GitHub (a transaction screener in C), two short banking internships (Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank), fluent English and German. What I can’t offer yet: Japanese. I’m very motivated to learn, but right now I’m at zero.

I’m not picky about the role. IT, data, operations, finance or business support, anything where I can be useful and learn how work in Japan actually feels.

What I’ve tried so far: I’ve applied to a few places (HENNGE, AHK Japan, Apple IS&T, and others), I’m registered with IAESTE, and I’m looking at exchange options through my university. I know it’s a long shot without Japanese, so I’d really appreciate:

• Companies in Tokyo that take English-speaking interns for 3 months
• Programs or scholarships I might have missed
• Honest advice from people who did the same

I’m happy to share my CV by DM. Thank you so much for reading!

Hey all, I thought I'd try posting this here, and if it's not allowed, I'm sorry! I run a small indie animation studio in Japan. While making our series we ended up building our own production tracker, and our team uses it every day. I've been showing it to old contacts at Disney, Netflix, and other major studios I worked at before, and there's been a lot of interest in the concept.

Being upfront about the state of it: I built it fast, with a lot of AI assistance. It "works"... our crew uses it daily and we get a lot of great feedback — but it's far from what I'd feel comfortable shipping or having other studios run on. It's one big JS file on Supabase and Cloudflare Pages, no real framework, no proper tests. I'm looking for someone to focus on this part-time to start, possibly full-time as we prep to take it live to other indie studios. Restructure it however you think it should be structured, make it something we can all be proud of, and ship it.

What I need is someone comfortable owning a codebase on their own, who knows Postgres (or Supabase specifically), and who can make sure the AI coding is legit or write proper code

Any background or interest in animation or VFX is a nice plus, not a requirement.

Logistics: contract, part-time to start, fully remote, async-friendly (we span JST and US hours). Tokyo is a bonus, we could meet up at the office sometimes — but overall remote. Paid, rate depends on experience.

To apply: DM me or email [brandon@librarie.jp](mailto:brandon@librarie.jp) with a short note or resume. I'll demo the actual site to anyone seriously interested also, shoot me a DM.

Hello, I am a 22 year old Surinamese associates degree finance student from the Netherlands . I want to get my masters degree in finance and eventually a PHD. When I’m done with my associates degree, I want to move to Japan later on. I have been on Japan before and I’d love to learn the language and learn more about the culture.