Gaming, recruitment, and social platform operator with active M&A and international expansion
MIXI operates three distinct business lines — Monster Strike (mobile gaming), Find Job (recruitment platform), and legacy SNS — across 1,000+ employees and is actively scaling through M&A and overseas expansion. The tech stack reflects this breadth: Ruby + Go + Python + JavaScript for backend services, Swift + Kotlin for mobile, paired with AWS + GCP infrastructure and analytics tooling (BigQuery, GA4, Looker). Active hiring across engineering (28 roles), design, and product indicates heavy lifting on user acquisition in emerging markets (India, Southeast Asia) and technical integration of acquired properties.
MIXI, founded in 1997 and publicly traded, pioneered internet-enabled recruitment in Japan with Find Job, then built a social network (mixi SNS), and expanded into mobile gaming with Monster Strike. The company now operates across three revenue streams: core gaming, recruitment services, and social/communication products. Engineering-led growth is supported by design and product teams building a design system and recommendation features (tipstar) for user engagement. Current strategic focus includes international user acquisition, M&A integration (legal and accounting support systems for overseas subsidiaries), and technical scaling across disparate business units.
Backend: Ruby, Go, Python, JavaScript. Mobile: Swift, Kotlin. Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Terraform, Ansible. Data/analytics: BigQuery, Google Analytics 4, Looker Studio. Adopting Ruby on Rails and AWS ECS.
Monster Strike optimization, M&A integration (IT systems and accounting), new business legal support, face detection for mite-ne app, design system, tipstar recommendation engine, and user acquisition in India and overseas markets.
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