Hokan builds a unified platform for Japan's insurance industry, consolidating operations across insurers, brokers, and agents onto a single system. The stack—Django + React + AWS + MySQL—is scaled for high-transaction throughput (Datadog + Sentry monitoring), with emerging data infrastructure (Athena, Glue, Redash) supporting analytics and visualization. The hiring mix skews engineering-heavy (18 engineers vs. 5 sales roles) and leans senior, indicating focus on technical hardening and data platform maturity rather than land-and-expand growth.
Notable leadership hires: Recruitment Lead
Hokan operates in Japan's insurance distribution layer, where household penetration exceeds 88% but workflows remain fragmented across multiple legacy systems. The company's core mission is to modernize insurance sales operations by centralizing policyholder data, sales workflows, and compliance across insurers, brokers, and agents—replacing the current multi-system environment with a single platform. Their active project list reflects operational scale: large-scale data migration, high-load database design, customer usage visualization, and legacy system modernization. Headquartered in Tokyo's Chuo ward, the company was founded in 2017 and operates with 51–200 employees, hiring exclusively in Japan.
Hokan's core stack is Django + React on AWS (ECS, Fargate), with MySQL for transactional data, Athena + Glue for ETL, and Redash for analytics. Infrastructure runs on Terraform; monitoring via Datadog and Sentry.
Active projects include a large-scale data processing platform, insurance product development, legacy system migration, customer usage visualization infrastructure, and Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code design.
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