Companies hiring software engineering in Japan
As of 4 November 2026, 236 companies are hiring software engineering in Japan, with 925 open roles; 244 opened in the last 30 days and Tokyo has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Top city
- Tokyo · 325 roles
- Largest role family
- general software development · 19%
- Leadership roles (director+)
- 18 · 12 companies
- Remote share, last 30 days
- 23%
- Postings with a salary
- 21% · 39 companies
- Most-named tool
- Amazon Web Services · 103 companies
Most new software engineering roles, last 30 days
Companies with the most new postings in the last 30 days; job boards and directories left out. Headquartered in Japan. Open software engineering roles and all open roles per company.
| Company | Size | new, 30 d | open software engineering | all open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
COSOJIGeneral property management | 51-200 employees | 2 | 2 | 41 |
DeepXRobotics system manufacturers | 11-50 employees | 2 | 2 | 2 |
KINTOテクノロジーズCustom software development agencies | 201-500 employees | 2 | 6 | 24 |
マネーフォワードPersonal budgeting apps | 1001-5000 employees | 2 | 31 | 231 |
PKSHA TechnologyApplied AI ML development | 51-200 employees | 2 | 14 | 104 |
ShapefarmGame studios | 51-200 employees | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Terra Drone Corp.Uav aerospace manufacturers | 201-500 employees | 2 | 2 | 22 |
ABEJAWorkflow bpm software | 51-200 employees | 1 | 5 | 47 |
クラウドエース株式会社AI automation agencies | Self-employed | 1 | 1 | 25 |
Cogent LabsDocument management automation | 51-200 employees | 1 | 2 | 13 |
CyberAgentAI automation agencies | 2-10 employees | 1 | 18 | 435 |
gaipackAI automation agencies | 51-200 employees | 1 | 8 | 55 |
GO Inc.EV charging installers | 51-200 employees | 1 | 6 | 42 |
JIJ Inc.Applied AI ML development | 11-50 employees | 1 | 3 | 23 |
MazricaCRM software | 51-200 employees | 1 | 1 | 40 |
Get every one with the hiring manager's verified e-mail, or a webhook each time a Japanese company opens its next software engineering role.
Start free, no card. The first 20 are above; e-mails are verified at the mail server when you open them.
By city, seniority and role family
Postings, then companies. Cities as the posting states them.
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Tokyo | 325 · 70 |
| 港区 | 43 · 9 |
| 渋谷区 | 35 · 5 |
| Minato City | 18 · 3 |
| Japan | 16 · 3 |
| 中央区 | 14 · 5 |
| Suginami City | 11 · 1 |
| Kobe | 10 · 1 |
| 千代田区 | 10 · 4 |
| 品川区 | 10 · 1 |
| Kodaira | 9 · 1 |
| 文京区 | 9 · 2 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Trainee, apprentice | 7 · 4 |
| Entry | 15 · 13 |
| Mid | 123 · 54 |
| Senior | 246 · 89 |
| Manager | 34 · 12 |
| Director | 2 · 2 |
| VP | 11 · 6 |
| C-level | 5 · 4 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| general software development | 178 · 81 |
| backend development | 122 · 57 |
| forward deployed engineering | 97 · 47 |
| software testing and qa | 92 · 44 |
| devops sre and platform | 81 · 40 |
| embedded and firmware | 58 · 20 |
| mobile development | 51 · 21 |
| full stack development | 36 · 18 |
| frontend development | 27 · 17 |
| enterprise platform and integration development | 17 · 12 |
Tools software engineering postings in Japan ask for
Office software left out. Click through to every company on a tool.
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Hybrid | 43 · 9 |
| Remote | 16 · 10 |
| Onsite | 12 · 10 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Posted in the last 7 days | 49 · 15 |
| Posted in the last 30 days | 244 · 77 |
| All open | 925 · 236 |
Quote the sentence with the date and the link. The numbers change daily; the link always shows the current ones.
236 companies have 925 open software engineering roles in Japan; 77 of them posted 244 in the last 30 days. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/hiring/software_engineering/japan)
Read from the source, not self-reported
Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →
- Job postingsRead hourly from the applicant tracking systems behind company career sites, with portals filling the gaps. Reposts collapse into one record; a role closes when the company closes it.
- Function and familyRole tree v2: every title classified into a function and a family, in every language.
- LocationThe posting's stated location, normalised to city and country. This page counts roles located in Japan.
- ExclusionsJob boards, directories and aggregators are kept out of company lists; staffing firms stay in only for their own hiring.
Software engineering hiring in Japan: questions
What counts as a software engineering role?
A posting classified into the software engineering function by our role tree (v2), whatever the title says. "Account Executive", "Vertriebsmitarbeiter" and "SDR" all land in the same function, then in a family such as general software development.
Why is Japan the posting's country, not the company's?
This page counts roles located in Japan. A US company hiring in Berlin counts; a Japanese company hiring in Paris does not. Company pages show the reverse view.
How fresh is it?
Career systems are checked hourly, so a role usually shows up the same day it opens and disappears the day it closes. Reposts collapse into one record.
Can I get the hiring manager?
Yes. For each company, the person the new hires report to, with a verified e-mail. The first 15 companies are on this page; the rest, and a weekly feed of new software engineering hiring in Japan, is in the product.
Put it to work
Plays that run on software engineering hiring data.
A team is growing faster than its tools
Five or more open roles in one function in the last 30 days.
A new sales leader is hiring a team
A VP or Head of Sales started in the last 90 days and sales roles are open.
They just moved to a tool you plug into
The site or job ads started naming a new CRM or platform in the last 60 days.
Get this data your way
The same data as a search, over MCP and the API, as bulk files, or pushed to you as it changes.
Every Japanese company hiring software engineering,
with the hiring manager
Filter hiring_for on software engineering in Japan. Start free, no card.