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Our community for people switching into tech. Get unstuck, find your first real issue, and meet other career-changers and working engineers. Bring your questions.

A busy Discord of 8,000+ international software developers in Japan. Job leads, salary talk, meetups, and honest advice on building a career here. One of the best rooms to be in.

Japan Dev runs its community on Reddit (r/JapanDev) rather than Discord — a good place to follow developer-friendly companies, ask questions, and read others’ experiences breaking into tech in Japan.

Curated software jobs in Japan for English speakers, many with visa sponsorship. The go-to board for international developers here.

A curated board of developer-friendly companies in Japan, with guides on what teams actually look for.

The largest job site in Japan by volume. Filter by English-required or remote roles — huge reach, so search precisely.

Japan’s biggest English job board. Every listing is open to foreigners and many offer visa sponsorship.

A bilingual board with strong filters for English-only roles and visa support. Good for IT and engineering positions.

A long-running bilingual board connecting foreign talent with global companies in Japan. Most roles expect some Japanese.

Where Japanese startups and tech companies recruit. Much of it is in Japanese, but it’s the best way to discover smaller teams.

An English-friendly board covering tech and non-tech roles across Japan, including entry-level positions.

Set your location to Japan and filter for English roles. Great for reaching recruiters at international companies.

Japan’s biggest C2C marketplace. English-friendly engineering org with new-grad and early-career programs.

English is the official in-company language. Large-scale hiring including new grads across many engineering teams.

The company behind LINE and Yahoo! Japan. Broad engineering hiring, including early-career and new-grad tracks.

Japan’s leading QR-payments app, built by a highly international team. Actively hires engineers, English OK.

Toyota’s mobility software arm. Diverse, English-first teams and one of the more accessible routes for international engineers.

A leading Japanese SaaS company with international developers and English documentation across engineering.

A fintech SaaS company (personal finance + B2B accounting) with a growing, English-friendly engineering org.

Brainstorm startup/project names, check domain availability across TLDs via RDAP, and vet brand/trademark conflicts.

Convene a council of four reviewer cats (security, deps/supply-chain, correctness/concurrency, style) over a PR or working diff, pulling in external bot reviews too.

Check a resume against automated candidate-screening (ATS) signals and AI-centric job expectations, score it against specific job postings, then interactively apply fixes and see exactly what changed.

Paul Bakaus’s design language for AI harnesses: a shared vocabulary (polish, audit, critique, distill...) plus 46 deterministic detector rules that keep your agent’s UI work from sliding into slop. Not a Nekko Labs skill.

Anthropic’s official skill for creating, editing, and improving Agent Skills — scaffolds a SKILL.md and bundled resources.

Anthropic’s official skill for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that connect agents to external tools and data.

Anthropic’s official skill for working with PDFs — extract text and tables, fill forms, merge, split, and create documents.