| Global Market for QA
Markets are changing rapidly, and there is a demand for quick software releases. Agile development has become mainstream; on a global scale, 92% of developer teams adopt agile development, 71% of which aim to release at least once a week. With such a rapid cycle, manual verification is too time-consuming, and there is an urgent need for automation. Our services can solve these critical challenges and make our clients a competitive advantage in software development. QA’s global budget is said to reach over $1 trillion. We are rapidly expanding our service reach internationally to win this vast global market.
| About Us
Autify, Inc. is a San Francisco-based startup that was founded by the first Japanese team to graduate from Alchemist Accelerator, one of the top accelerators in the US. With the mission to empower people’s creativity through technology, we have been offering an AI-powered automation platform aiming to eliminate the test phase.
Since 2019, we’ve been providing our AI-powered nocode test automation product and have grown the team to 100+. Our next move is to double down on GenAI. As we have been investing in AI and helping customers’ software quality since 2019, we know how to best utilize GenAI in software QA. With that, we have recently launched our new product, Genesis, a GenAI agent for software quality assurance.
| About This Role
Job Purpose
As a Senior Software Engineer focused on on-premise version of this product, you will drive the design and development of secure, scalable server-side services, AI worker processes, and a robust Remote Control Agent for desktop app testing. Your work will empower enterprise customers to deploy and operate Aximo entirely within their infrastructure while enabling high-fidelity automated testing across both web and desktop environments. You will work closely with product leads, AI/ML engineers, and site reliability teams to define architecture, solve deep system challenges, and deliver an exceptional on-premise testing solution.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement the on-premise Aximo platform, including:
- Design and build a Remote Control Agent capable of:
- Integrate AI agent execution into on-premise workflows with observability, isolation, and security in mind
- Ensure deployment, upgrade, and configuration mechanisms operate seamlessly in self-hosted environments (e.g., air-gapped, restricted-network)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to iterate on product features, performance, and reliability
- Help define best practices for enterprise adoption and long-term maintainability
ー Backend services (API, orchestrators)
ーWorker processes for executing AI agents
ーSecure runtime environments for customer infrastructure
ーInteracting reliably with native Windows applications
ーSimulating user input (keyboard, mouse, window focus/control)
ーCapturing screen and UI state for automated testing
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with server-side distributed systems
- Strong expertise in backend development (Go, Rust, Node, Python, or similar)
- Experience building self-hosted or on-premise software products
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) or packaging/distribution tooling
- Deep experience with OS-level automation/system programming, especially on Windows (UI Automation, Win32 APIs, accessibility APIs, desktop interaction)
- Solid understanding of security, sandboxing, and process isolation in distributed systems
- Heavily using coding agents and sophisticated on AI driven software development
- Proven ability to drive technical decisions and deliver high-quality software
- Strong communication skills and ability to work in a cross-disciplinary team with engineers, product managers, and AI researchers
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with test automation frameworks or products
- Experience building AI agents or software that integrates with LLMs
- Experience with AI/ML integration or agent-based systems
- Knowledge of enterprise deployment tooling (Ansible, Helm, Windows Installer, etc.)
- Experience with monitoring / observability stacks for large systems
¥8,000,000 – ¥12,000,000 a year
– Reviewed twice a year
– Annual bonus included
Selection Process
1. HR interview: 30 min
2. Technical interview: 60min
3. Technical interview: 60min
4. Final interview: 45min
5. Reference check
| About the Engineering Team
Our Team
Autify’s engineering team is international, with more than half of the engineers being foreign nationals and all developers being English speakers. We have a good culture where members respect each other’s backgrounds. Since we have two products, Autify for Web and Autify for Mobile, our development engineers are divided into two teams corresponding to each product. We have about 30 front-end, back-end, and technical support engineers who work closely with engineering managers, product managers, QA managers, designers, and machine learning engineers. The product manager is in charge of the general roadmap. The product manager develops a rough roadmap and works with the engineers and designers on the details of each feature and bug fixes before implementation. Depending on the size of the feature, we appoint a feature lead from among the engineers to be in charge of the project and give them the discretion to make technical decisions.
Our Development Process
We create a ticket about what kind of function we will develop. In some cases, the product owner creates it based on user feedback; in other cases, each team creates bugs and investigation requests directly.
The development cycle consists of one Sprint, which takes two weeks. Development tasks are assigned during the planning stage on the first day of the Sprint, and we hold a daily standup meeting to check the overall progress and any problems. (If there is a time difference, it is done at lunchtime).
We review code on GitHub. After the review, the merged branches are automatically deployed to the staging environment, and E2E tests are performed (which Autify does itself).
After testing on the integrated branch, it’s deployed to the production environment. Deployment is done several times a week as needed. We also hold sprint ceremonies like Sprint planning, feature refinement and sprint retrospective sessions. The developer will demonstrate the developed function to all employees at the end of the Sprint in the Sprint Demo.
Tech Stack
– Backend: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Go
– Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Styled Components
– Machine learning: Python, PyTorch, Kubernetes, GPT-4
– Database: PostgreSQL, Redis
– Test: Appium, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Puppeteer
– Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Terraform, Packer, MacStadium, GoogleCloud
– Monitoring: Datadog, New Relic, Sentry
– CI/CD: CircleCI, GitHub Actions
– Source code management: GitHub
– Project management: Jira
– Misc.: G Suite, Slack, Notion, Gather, Zoom, Miro, 1Password, Mixmax, Calendly, etc.
| Employment Conditions
Employment Status
– Permanent employee (Full-time)
– Probation period: 6 months after joining the company (conditions are the same as permanent employment)
Work Location
– Tokyo office or Remote in Japan
Work Hours
– Full flextime time
Note: The determination of working hours (start and end times) must be made to the extent that one’s own duties (including guidance and supervision of subordinates) are properly performed and that there are no obstacles to work in terms of coordination and communication with other employees.
Bonus
– Twice a year
Holidays/PTO
– Complete a five-day workweek system (National holidays, Year-end and New Year holidays, etc.)
– Unlimited paid time off
Benefits
– Equipped with various social insurance
– Regular health checkups
– Stock option
– A laptop PC will be rented when joining the company
– Remote work allowance
– English learning support
– Skill-up support
– Visa sponsorship
– Relocation bonus
– Relocation housing support
| Resources
– Autify Genesis
– Autify No-code
– Career
– Blogs
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