Mobile game and web development services for Japanese and global engineering markets
PlayNext Lab operates a software development shop spanning mobile games, web services, and platform engineering, with a tech stack anchored in React Native, Laravel, and AWS. Active replacement of legacy Spring middleware signals a modernization push across their service portfolio. Hiring is concentrated in senior engineering roles within Japan, suggesting they're scaling delivery capacity rather than expanding into new disciplines.
PlayNext Lab is a software development services company founded in 2016, based in Tokyo, serving mobile game studios, web service companies, and enterprises requiring custom development. The company operates across three primary service lines: mobile game development, web application services, and platform engineering for international engineering talent recruitment. Current project work spans healing music apps, LINE mini-apps, middleware modernization for financial services, and municipal digital transformation initiatives. The organization employs 51–200 people and hires exclusively in Japan.
React Native, Laravel, Vue, React, Node.js, JavaScript, Python, Spring, AWS, Go, Ruby, TypeScript, and Angular. They are actively replacing legacy Spring and Spring Boot middleware.
Current projects include healing music app development, LINE mini-app platform work, middleware modernization for a trust bank, and municipal digital transformation services.
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