Japan's leading local delivery platform scaling beyond food
Demae-can operates Japan's dominant delivery marketplace, originally food-focused but now handling household goods and broader merchant categories. The tech stack reflects a mature, operationally complex business: containerized infrastructure (Kubernetes, ECS, Istio), multi-cloud compute (AWS, Azure, GCP), and observability-first monitoring (New Relic, OpenTelemetry). Active projects around drone logistics and a new core delivery system suggest infrastructure modernization alongside expansion into non-food verticals—a move that requires both logistics capability and partner ecosystem management.
Notable leadership hires: Art Director
Demae-can is a publicly listed Japanese delivery platform (JASDAQ: 2484) founded in 1999 and operating since 2000. The company began as a restaurant-to-consumer marketplace and has evolved into a multi-category logistics network serving food and non-food merchants. With 201–500 employees headquartered in Tokyo, the company operates across Japan and has expanded hiring to Singapore, Romania, India, and Indonesia. Current operational focus includes delivery reward optimization, partner satisfaction, and service quality—paired with engineering efforts on core system modernization and experimental initiatives like drone logistics.
Demae-can runs on AWS, Azure, and GCP with containerized orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, Istio), MySQL and DynamoDB for data, and infrastructure tooling including Terraform, Argo CD, and GitHub Actions. Observability uses New Relic and OpenTelemetry.
Demae-can is actively recruiting across Japan, Singapore, Romania, India, and Indonesia. Current open roles (59 total) span engineering, sales, data, product, and operations, with most positions at mid and senior level.
Active projects include delivery reward optimization, a new core delivery system release, partner success programs, restaurant local marketing, and a drone logistics proof of concept. Internally, the company is prioritizing legacy system modernization and partner satisfaction.
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