Social shopping app connecting users through shared purchases and community features
KAUCHE is a Japan-based social commerce platform built on Go, GCP, and Kotlin that emphasizes interactive shopping experiences. The company is aggressively scaling engineering (29 open roles) and data (19 roles) while adopting Salesforce, and internal pain points reveal a push toward ML-driven recommendations and real-time infrastructure: they're investing in recommendation engines, ML infrastructure architecture, and large-scale log data integration—but development velocity is lagging relative to growth ambitions, suggesting the product roadmap is outpacing engineering capacity.
Notable leadership hires: Chief Product Officer, VP Engineering, Tech Lead, iOS Tech Lead
KAUCHE operates a social shopping app that enables users to purchase together while earning savings through gamified features like a farming mechanic and a points system. The platform serves Japan-based users and emphasizes communication and community alongside transactional features. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Tokyo, the company runs a 11–50-person team structured around engineering, data, product, and design, with active hiring focused on Japan.
KAUCHE runs Go and Kotlin on GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Spanner), uses BigQuery and Looker Studio for analytics, and manages infrastructure via Terraform and GitHub Actions. Frontend is built in TypeScript and Dart.
KAUCHE is building a recommendation engine, improving ML infrastructure, constructing a design system, optimizing UX, and developing BI tools. The company is also addressing data platform scaling and experiment automation challenges.
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