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About U-NEXT

Tokyo

251-1000

6mil ~ 12mil JPY

U-NEXT is a streaming service and digital content platform that offers movies, TV, anime, manga, music, and virtually every kind of digital content. Occupying the third-largest market share after Netflix and Amazon in Japan, it distinguishes itself as the biggest domestic representative. Entertaining its subscribers with an extensive product line-up unmatched by any of its competitors, U-NEXT offers a variety of Japan-focused content like drama series from Japan and other Asian countries that cannot be found anywhere else.

U-NEXT's business is focused heavily on technology: Their goal is to hire the best people to build their product (regardless of nationality), and they have managed to assemble a world-class engineering team in their Tokyo office. Their CEO himself has stated that "understanding and investing in technology" is of the utmost importance to the company. U-NEXT's leadership and members are highly diverse, with members from many different countries practicing agile development and maintaining a culture inspired by Silicon Valley tech companies.

U-NEXT's work style is also among the most flexible and progressive for Japanese tech companies. In addition to full flex time (no core hours) and remote work (even before COVID-19), they provide several great benefits designed to keep their employees as happy as possible.

Paid Leave
U-NEXT has a five-day work week. Other holidays/vacations are as follows:
- National holidays
- Paid vacation (two days granted upon company entry with eight days added after three months)
- Summer vacation
- New Year's holiday
- Leave of absence for congratulation or condolence
- etc.
Benefits
💻 The latest equipment - High-end PC, Display, Additional second display, Specific tech gadgets (e.g. keyboards)

💛 Height-adjustable desk at the office

📓 Full subsidy for the purchase of technical books

💟 Subsidy of moving expenses (up to 300,000 yen for long-distance relocation upon company entry)

🤍 Full subsidy for the purchase of work-related software

🖤 Full subsidy for the attendance of external training and seminars

🍹 Free drinks at the office

💴 Defined-contribution pension, Property accumulation/installment savings

🧡 Congratulatory and/or condolence money

💜 Complete social insurance coverage

🚃 Full compensation for transportation expenses (up to 180,000 yen for 6 months)

	Cloud providers (if any)	Programming languages, frameworks	Version Control (GitHub, GitLab etc)	Notable open source libraries
Web (front-end)	GCP	javascript, typescript, react.js, next.js, node.js, GraphQL, apollo client/server, php (phasing out), yii (phasing out)	Github, Gitlab	Docker, Kubernetes
iOS		Swift	Github	Cocoapods, Realm, Firebase, Lottie, SwiftLint
Android	Firebase	Kotlin, Java, Golang	Github, Gitlab	Dagger, Apollo-Android, Retrofit, RxJava2, Coroutines, Jetpack
Data Science	GCP, AWS	Python, NodeJS, Java	Gitlab, Github	Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, Rancher, Istio, Cassandra, Kafka
Content database (back-end)		Java, LastaFlute, Golang, Echo, Typescript, Angular, PHP, Yii	Github, GitLab	Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Cassandra, TiDB, DDD(Domain Driven Design)
Backbone core system (back-end)		Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot	GitHub, GitLab	Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, DDD(Domain Driven Design)
Customer relationship management system		Java, LastaFlute, JavaScript, Riot.js, Scala, PHP, PlayFramework	GitHub, GitLab	Docker, Kubernetes, Akka
Infrastructure	Private Cloud	Python, Shell	GitLab	Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Ceph, HDFS, Mysql, Postgresql, Cassandra, TiDB, Redis, Kafka, Rabbitmq, Openstack, Kubernetes, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticesearch, Nginx, Apache, LVS
New architecture for new business (2020)	GCP	Golang, Kotlin	GitHub, GitLab	Kubernetes, Kafka, KeyDB (maybe), Dgraph, gRPC, Spring Boot

View U-NEXT's company page

Paid Leave
U-NEXT has a five-day work week. Other holidays/vacations are as follows:
- National holidays
- Paid vacation (two days granted upon company entry with eight days added after three months)
- Summer vacation
- New Year's holiday
- Leave of absence for congratulation or condolence
- etc.
Benefits
💻 The latest equipment - High-end PC, Display, Additional second display, Specific tech gadgets (e.g. keyboards)

💛 Height-adjustable desk at the office

📓 Full subsidy for the purchase of technical books

💟 Subsidy of moving expenses (up to 300,000 yen for long-distance relocation upon company entry)

🤍 Full subsidy for the purchase of work-related software

🖤 Full subsidy for the attendance of external training and seminars

🍹 Free drinks at the office

💴 Defined-contribution pension, Property accumulation/installment savings

🧡 Congratulatory and/or condolence money

💜 Complete social insurance coverage

🚃 Full compensation for transportation expenses (up to 180,000 yen for 6 months)

	Cloud providers (if any)	Programming languages, frameworks	Version Control (GitHub, GitLab etc)	Notable open source libraries
Web (front-end)	GCP	javascript, typescript, react.js, next.js, node.js, GraphQL, apollo client/server, php (phasing out), yii (phasing out)	Github, Gitlab	Docker, Kubernetes
iOS		Swift	Github	Cocoapods, Realm, Firebase, Lottie, SwiftLint
Android	Firebase	Kotlin, Java, Golang	Github, Gitlab	Dagger, Apollo-Android, Retrofit, RxJava2, Coroutines, Jetpack
Data Science	GCP, AWS	Python, NodeJS, Java	Gitlab, Github	Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, Rancher, Istio, Cassandra, Kafka
Content database (back-end)		Java, LastaFlute, Golang, Echo, Typescript, Angular, PHP, Yii	Github, GitLab	Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Cassandra, TiDB, DDD(Domain Driven Design)
Backbone core system (back-end)		Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot	GitHub, GitLab	Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, DDD(Domain Driven Design)
Customer relationship management system		Java, LastaFlute, JavaScript, Riot.js, Scala, PHP, PlayFramework	GitHub, GitLab	Docker, Kubernetes, Akka
Infrastructure	Private Cloud	Python, Shell	GitLab	Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Ceph, HDFS, Mysql, Postgresql, Cassandra, TiDB, Redis, Kafka, Rabbitmq, Openstack, Kubernetes, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticesearch, Nginx, Apache, LVS
New architecture for new business (2020)	GCP	Golang, Kotlin	GitHub, GitLab	Kubernetes, Kafka, KeyDB (maybe), Dgraph, gRPC, Spring Boot

U-NEXT Tags

Relocation Support

International

Hires Foreigners

Work Environment

U-NEXT Detailed Data

Industries

Streaming
Online Video

Founders

Tenshin Tsutsumi

Global Employee Count

251-1000

Japan Employee Count

51-250

Global Headquarters

Japan Offices

Tokyo

Public Status

Private

Mission

“The best times, any time, and only for you.” We take pride in our responsibility to meet the entertainment needs of each and every one of our subscribers, offering a diverse range of the highest quality and most entertaining content tailored to evolving tastes, constantly reevaluating and perfecting our service, and will continue to lead the industry in providing a comprehensive 360° entertainment distribution service.

Official Website

https://www.unext.co.jp/en

Twitter

https://twitter.com/watch_UNEXT

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/unextjp_official/