Japanese points-and-commerce platform with 4.5M users and 1,700+ B2B partners
OZvision operates Hapitas, a points mall connecting Japanese consumers to EC merchants at scale (4.5M users, 3,000+ partners, 1.7T yen annual transaction volume). The tech stack is LAMP-based (PHP, MySQL) with native mobile (Swift, Kotlin, React Native) and AWS infrastructure, but the hiring and project list reveal an inflection point: engineering is shifting from outsourced development toward in-house teams, scaling infrastructure-as-code and process standardization while preparing for public markets (IPO planning) and M&A integration. This is a scaling-stage commerce business moving from build-to-order toward operational maturity.
OZvision, founded in 2006, operates a portfolio of shopping and reuse services in Japan. The flagship product, Hapitas, is a points mall where consumers earn rewards on purchases across partner EC sites and services, then redeem them across a network of thousands of merchants. The company also runs Pollet, a quick-buyback service for unused goods and currency/vouchers, which gained traction (400K downloads) on social media. A third division, OZ ASP (launched 2021), acts as a web-advertising agency connecting product launches to affiliate networks and digital media. The company has achieved 17 consecutive years of growth and now operates at scale: 4.5M registered users, 3,000+ merchant partners, and 170B yen+ in annual flow.
PHP, MySQL, and HTML/CSS/JavaScript on the backend; Swift and Kotlin for native mobile; React Native for cross-platform; AWS (RDS, Aurora, CloudFront, ELB, VPC) for cloud infrastructure; Ansible and AWS CDK for operations.
Core work includes new feature development, UX/UI improvements, and infrastructure-as-code. Strategic projects include IPO preparation, M&A integration, in-house app development, and process standardization for development teams.
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