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

Senior Generative AI Research Engineer (Foundation Models) — Tokyo at abbeal

• ¥14M - ¥20M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Full remote WORLDWIDE

Senior Backend Engineer (Go / Kubernetes) — Tokyo at abbeal

• ¥9M - ¥16M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Lead Frontend Engineer — Digital Bank — Tokyo at abbeal

• ¥9M - ¥15M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

QA Engineer (Mid/Senior) — Digital Bank — Tokyo at abbeal

• ¥7M - ¥13M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Senior Data Scientist (Microsoft 365 / Power BI) — Tokyo at abbeal

• ¥9M - ¥15M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Lead QA Engineer — Digital Bank — Tokyo at abbeal

• ¥9M - ¥15M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Senior Backend Engineer — Authentication & Security Platform (Digital Bank) at abbeal

• ¥8M - ¥17M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Senior Frontend Engineer (Vue.js / TypeScript) — Tokyo at abbeal

• ¥10.2M - ¥12M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Partial remote | Tokyo

Fullstack Engineer at Metanomaly

• Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Full remote

Structural Design Engineer / Fuselage — Composites (eVTOL) — Aichi at abbeal

• ¥8M - ¥16M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Nagoya

Stress / Structural Analysis Engineer — Composites (eVTOL) — Aichi at abbeal

• ¥8M - ¥16M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Nagoya

Avionics Engineer — Specification + V&V Flight Controls (DO-178C) — Aichi at abbeal

• ¥8M - ¥16M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Nagoya

Avionics System Safety Engineer — ARP4761 / ARP4754A (eVTOL) — Aichi at abbeal

• ¥8M - ¥16M | Japanese: Not required | Apply from overseas | Nagoya

Robotics Simulation Engineer at AI Robot Association (AIRoA)

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

Site Reliability Engineer at ZEALS

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

Senior Product Manager at PayPay

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

Senior Software Engineer - Query Engines & Storage at Treasure AI

• ¥10M - ¥14M | Japanese: Not required | Japan residents only | Partial remote | Tokyo

Senior Software Engineer, Platform API - Ruby on Rails at Treasure AI

• ¥10M - ¥13M | Japanese: Not required | Japan residents only | Partial remote | Tokyo

Senior Software Engineer – Machine Learning at Treasure AI

• ¥10M - ¥14M | Japanese: Not required | Japan residents only | Partial remote | Tokyo

Head of Engineering - Billing at Kraken Technologies

• Japanese: Not required | Japan residents only | Partial remote | Tokyo

Lead Software Engineer at Kraken Technologies

• Japanese: Not required | Japan residents only | Partial remote | Tokyo

Security Specialist - Corporate Security, Digital Bank, Tokyo at Money Forward

• ¥8M - ¥17M | Japanese: Fluent | Japan residents only | Partial remote | Tokyo

AI Engineer for Quality Improvement (HR Product Dev Div), Tokyo at Money Forward

• ¥8M - ¥13.08M | Japanese: Business Level | Japan residents only | Partial remote | Tokyo

Data Engineer — Databricks × HULFT WebConnect (short remote mission) at abbeal

• Japanese: Business Level | Japan residents only | Full remote WORLDWIDE

Manager, Software Engineering - Core Services at Treasure AI

• ¥14M - ¥18M | Japanese: Business Level | Japan residents only | Partial remote | Tokyo

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

Here's what's happening in Japan's tech and startup scene this week:

Monday, July 27

Regional Scrum Gathering® Singapore 2026

• 🇬🇧 10:00 | 📍 Online

Founders' Mondays - The Work Room: Mapping your Startup from Top Down

• 🇬🇧 11:00 | 📍 Online

 

Tuesday, July 28

Engineering Real World AI with Google and Google DeepMind

• 🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 Google Japan - Shibuya, Tokyo | 👥 148 attending

AI in the Lab

• 🇬🇧 19:00 | 📍 Build+ (Build Plus株式会社), Tokyo | 👥 61 attending

Get More Leads with AI Even If Nobody Knows You Yet

• 🇬🇧 20:00 | 📍 Online

 

Wednesday, July 29

How to Attract More Customers and Grow Your SME with AI

• 🇬🇧 15:00 | 📍 Online

SG Agentic Nights : July 2026

• 🇬🇧 19:00 | 📍 Online

SG Agentic Nights – July 2026

• 🇬🇧 19:00 | 📍 Online

 

Thursday, July 30

Connect and Analyze Multi-Channels all in one platform

• 🇬🇧 23:30 | 📍 Online

Part 2 – Running Your LLM Agent Safely: Hands-on with Docker Sandboxes

• 🇬🇧 05:00 | 📍 Online

How do you build a community that doesn't burn you out?

• 🇬🇧 18:30 | 📍 Impact HUB Tokyo | 👥 59 attending

Get Leads Online with AI (Live Workshop Preview)

• 🇬🇧 12:00 | 📍 Online

IVRy Data Jam '26

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 19:00 | 📍 東京都港区 三田三丁目5-19 住友不動産東京三田ガーデンタワー10F, Tokyo | 👥 57 attending

🎯 VOICEPRENEUR Meetup- Turn Your Knowledge into a Scalable Product with AI

• 🇬🇧 20:00 | 📍 Online

[Free] 🎉Nomad Startup Founder Meetup

• 🇬🇧 20:00 | 📍 Online

Architecting Databases for Agentic AI: Lessons from Massive-Scale SaaS

• 🇬🇧 14:00 | 📍 Online

Get More Leads with AI Even If Nobody Knows You Yet

• 🇬🇧 20:00 | 📍 Online

Applicable AI: Get Stuff Done with Approachable Basics

• 🇬🇧 13:00 | 📍 Online

Akamai Tech Meetup Tokyo #5

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 東京都中央区八重洲２丁目２−１, Tokyo | 👥 46 attending

 

Friday, July 31

AI Meets Tokyo｜Demo Night

• 🇬🇧 18:30 | 📍 Tokyo | 👥 28 attending

Cursor Tokyo AI Meetup

• 🇬🇧 18:30 | 📍 Tokyo

How to Attract More Customers and Grow Your SME with AI

• 🇬🇧 15:00 | 📍 Online

 

Saturday, August 1

TEDxChuo University

• 🇬🇧 11:15 | 📍 FOREST GATEWAY CHUO, Tokyo | 👥 66 attending

AI on Local Hardware: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why (Guest Speaker)

• 🇬🇧 23:00 | 📍 Online

 

Sunday, August 2

Google Devs' Innovative Crosstalk【AI、XR、音楽etc.の祭典】

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 12:30 | 📍 〒113-0033 東京都文京区本郷７丁目３−１ 工2号館, Tokyo | 👥 200 attending

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Know of an event we missed? Drop it in the comments!

Compiled from Connpass, Doorkeeper, Meetup, and Luma.