Styler Inc and FACY

Styler’s mission is to Create the future shopping experience. We are aiming to bridge the gap between the physical and virtual world and bring the offline brick and mortar lifestyle shopping experience online.

We are introducing our app, FACY, as a tool for shops to sell to customers online. Communicating and offering their in-store inventory in a new type of marketplace.

Our solution today includes
・FACY iOS and Android apps
・http://facy.jp our online web interface and owned fashion/lifestyle media outlet
・FACY administration interface, used by shops to manage their online shop

Visit http://facy.jp, download the app and give it it a go. The service is completely free and you can save money on your next shopping!

The team

Right now (September 2021) our company numbers about fifteen in total and of this our product team (design, engineering and PM) count eight full time employees.

We have as many nationalities as members in the team and internally we work in English although our business side operates in Japanese. Japanese speaking as such is a plus but not a requirement (for engineers).

If you look us up at LinkedIn you can find our members and what they are up to as some of us publish posts from time to time. Also check out our Note blog (although mostly in Japanese).

Our stack

For our apps we use Swift, Kotlin and Firebase. For server side, we work mostly in Python and VueJS on top of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We have a mix of Kubernetes and Cloud functions. We use ElasticSearch but also CloudSQL, BigQuery and Firestore.

See our stackshare for the entire breakdown.

Other tools / processes

Building the product is one part of what we do but before that comes design and afterwards testing.

We rely heavily on insights from Google Analytics and use Metabase a lot for sharing data and analysis. We use Google Forms to get surveys and user feedback and document a lot in Confluence.

Before building new functionality we make designs and prototypes in Figma, sometimes we test on these before development and sometimes we do both hallway testing internally and user testing externally on the finished features. We’ve began trying out Figma Jam for remote wireframing sessions as well.

How we work

Our team constantly changes depending on what we need to do. As such our “teams” inside the team is very fluid. Right now, we have three small teams:

・Android 🤖
・Taco 🌮 working with iOS and APIs for frontend
・Pizza 🍕 focusing on shop facing functionality

We have a product manager 💼 and one designer 🎨 who work across these teams.

Each team decides themselves how to work but generally we try to keep it the same and now work with one-week short sprints. Small pieces of work, releasing often and iterating.

Since the pandemic started, we have come to accept remote working as must and use Google Meets and Slack a lot to communicate frequently and easily despite being far apart.

Work with us!

We offer a very flexible environment for working hours, holidays and remote work. But the team as well is also very flexible. We’re still small and everyone needs to pitch in but that also means, you can help out where help is needed. You can also be a part of defining our culture and how we work.

Contact us on LinkedIn or apply and we can talk about how you might fit into our team!