DogeSMS in Tokyo
Why we're building presence in Tokyo
Japan's mobile market is a textbook example of regulatory discipline applied to network quality: NTT Docomo, SoftBank, KDDI (au), and Rakuten Mobile operate under MIC (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) oversight, with SMS routing rules among the world's most restrictive for international origination. A2P SMS in Japan is largely limited to domestic registered originators — a constraint that creates genuine scarcity value for teams who understand the compliance pathway. Japanese consumers have 98% smartphone penetration and among the world's lowest tolerance for failed authentication flows: an OTP that doesn't arrive within 30 seconds is a support ticket, not an edge case. The engineering culture here — Rakuten Technology, LINE (LY Corporation), Mercari, DeNA — expects precision documentation, well-structured APIs, and reliability metrics expressed as five-nines, not four. For OTP infrastructure with ambitions in the Japanese market, Tokyo presence isn't optional. Carrier relationship work here runs on trust built over years of consistent delivery quality.
Distributed teammate hub
Timezone: UTC+9. Working language: English (and likely local). Decisions live in writing; we coordinate across timezones via async docs.
Coworking spaces we recommend nearby:
- WeWork Shibuya Scramble Square
- The Hive Jinnan
Future openings in this hub will likely include: Engineering, Compliance & Finance.
What life looks like here for our team
Reliable internet, growing local tech meetups, and proximity to Japan's regional tech ecosystem.
DogeSMS doesn't have a physical office in Tokyo.We're a distributed team — this page describes the city, not a workplace.
Interested?
Email careers@dogesms.com or see all open roles.