Top Remote Jobs in Japan

Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs for various applications, optimizing performance and collaborating with teams on product strategy.

Provide Japanese-language customer support through email, chat, and contact forms during JST hours. Responsibilities include preparing responses, processing requests, maintaining customer records, testing products and features, reviewing translations, updating FAQs and chatbot content, reporting platform issues, simulating trading-platform problems, and coordinating with internal teams. The role requires strong Japanese and English communication, customer service experience, technical proficiency, proactivity, and willingness to learn in a remote multicultural environment.

Design end-to-end UX for AI-driven web and mobile products. Develop human-AI interaction patterns for prompting, review, correction, confirmation, handoff, and recovery. Create clear, controllable interfaces for complex workflows, prototype and test concepts, conduct usability research, and collaborate with product, engineering, and ML teams. Help establish reusable HCI patterns and design systems for trustworthy AI experiences.

Manages Field Service Engineers and Service Technicians responsible for customer hardware, software, and network implementation, installation, repair, calibration, and support. Builds partnerships across support organizations, improves service delivery and customer satisfaction, supports profitable revenue growth, and ensures compliance with customer and vendor site-access credentialing requirements.

Coordinates customer enterprise programs, scheduled and reactive services, inquiries, schedules, quotations, purchase orders, invoices, and issue resolution. Acts as the primary customer contact while collaborating with internal and external partners and cross-functional teams. Onsite coordinators integrate into customer operations, implement customized program-agreement duties, maintain detailed information, and deliver customer-focused operational excellence. The role requires planning, organization, communication, adaptability, customer service, and familiarity with compliant laboratory environments, SAP, and Microsoft Office.

Develop a proof of concept for blockchain-based transfer-agency workflows, primarily on Ethereum. Gather requirements, plan milestones, create documentation, develop and test smart contracts, model threats, and deploy audited contracts to testnet and mainnet. The role emphasizes smart-contract security, systematic testing, focused greenfield scoping, and collaboration with technical and product stakeholders. Familiarity with Solana, Canton, audits, and threat modeling is preferred.

Provides presales subject-matter expertise for financial crime and compliance solutions. The role gathers client requirements, positions Actimize products, delivers presentations and demonstrations, leads proof-of-concept engagements, completes RFI/RFP responses, and communicates customer needs to sales and product teams. It also develops prospect relationships and participates in industry events, requiring fluent English and Japanese communication and 40%+ travel to customer sites.

Serve as a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Microsoft 365 Copilot and related Copilot tools to design, build, and operationalize AI agents. Engage with customers to gather requirements, create architectures, support implementation and adoption, integrate with other platforms, collaborate with sales and engineering, and share reusable knowledge to maximize business value and ROI.

Build and deploy customer-facing production solutions across edge and cloud environments. Scope and execute proofs of concept, integrations, data pipelines, and real-time systems while meeting reliability and performance targets. Partner with Sales and Product, present architectures and results, benchmark software on edge hardware, and create repeatable deployment tooling and documentation. The role is based in Japan with significant onsite customer work and frequent travel across Asia-Pacific and to San Mateo.

Own customer programs across Asia from initial scoping through pilot, production, and expansion. Serve as the primary customer contact while coordinating Solutions, Research, Product, and Engineering. Align customer goals with milestones, dependencies, technical decisions, and success criteria; manage risks and resolve cross-functional blockers. The role requires fluent Japanese, strong business English, technical fluency in AI/ML and complex software systems, and experience leading enterprise implementations or technical programs.

Develop and integrate LLM-enabled knowledge management solutions: build document ingestion and transformation pipelines, metadata extraction, semantic chunking, relationship extraction, retrieval/RAG and prompt workflows, prototype LLM features, and integrate AI solutions with cloud services and enterprise systems to support a federal client.

Leads outsourced accounting services for oil and gas exploration and production clients. Oversees accounts payable, revenue, joint interest billing, month-end and year-end close, transaction recording, financial and management reporting, client service, and multiple client engagements. Requires strong U.S. GAAP knowledge, corporate accounting experience, operational accounting expertise, communication skills, and familiarity with oil and gas accounting systems.

Performs buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence, including data analysis, quality of earnings and net working capital adjustments, deal-risk identification, and client communications. Leads meetings, develops agendas, coaches junior team members, supports recruiting, and manages multiple projects. Requires accounting expertise, transaction services experience, strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.