Who we are

HQ : Tokyo
Established : 2016
Employees : 140
https://iyell.co.jp/

The iYell Co,. Ltd is a housing mortgage tech company.
We built the “iYell Housing mortgage Platform” to solve problems related to house loans: for people wishing to buy a house, businesses selling them, and financial institutions providing housing loans.

The platform is based on three points: “Media” that can be used for marketing, “Technology” that streamlines procedures, provides remote support, and predicts interest rates, and a “Professional team” that provides credit screening services and face-to-face consultation to end users.

Our vision

It’s not about what you do,
it’s about who you do it with

We are a company that values the people we work with.
We believe that our life is much happier if we enjoy what we do for a living because we spend 40 years of our lives at work.
And we believe that in order to work happily, the ‘buddies’ we work with are a really important factor.
Isn’t it fun to just hang out with friends you like?
We believe that working happily makes the people around us happier.
That’s why our management philosophy is “It’s not about what you do, it’s about who you do it with.”

So, what kind of people do we want to work with?

In the first year of the company’s existence, we established a set of iYell’s values that were shared by all employees at the time. These values are still cherished by all members and are the bases for management decisions.

As a result of our commitment to these values, we have had no employees leave the company until we had 100 employees, and we still have a low turnover rate.
Many of our employees joined the company through referrals, and some even introduce their siblings.

Our services/products

We are one of the leading mortgage tech companies in Japan.
We provide a platform that streamlines the mortgage operations of financial institutions and housing businesses for consumers to choose the best mortgage.
Our functions include:

  • New technologies, such as chatbots for financial institutions.
  • “iYell Dandori”:A smartphone application for outsourcing administrative work for housing businesses.
  • “iYell online consultation desk” :Housing loan comparison and consultation service for users.

We provide services that cover all phases of the home purchase process, from the selection of a housing provider, which is the gateway to purchasing a home, to the comparison and selection of housing loans, to post-purchase living and refinancing.
With the increasing frequency of home replacements among domestic users, we aim to build a solid position in this industry with high barriers to entry, and create a social infrastructure.

Skills

Our engineering team

What projects/services is your engineering team working on?

Development of web services and smart phone applications.

  • Our main product, “iYell Dandori”, a smartphone application for outsourcing administrative work for housing businesses.
  • Media that provides all kinds of information on housing loans.
  • Various systems to respond to customer requests.

What technologies are you using?

Web server side
PHP, Laravel, Slim, Node.js, WordPress, Concrete5

Web front end
Vue, jQuery, Javascript, CSS(Sass/SCSS), Emmet

Database
MySQL, MariaDB, Redis

Infrastructure
AWS (ELB, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ElastiCache, CloudFormation, CodeDeploy …) Docker, Vagrant

Mobile application
Monaca (HTML5, Vue, Onsen UI), Swift, Objective-C, Firebase,

Business infrastructure
Salesforce, Kintone, Watson

Communication
Chatwork, Backlog, ClickUp

Others
GitHub, Kibela, Cacoo

What type of engineers work at your company? What is their job content?

Our engineers are responsible for the development and operation of the various systems described earlier.

Do you plan on using any new technologies in the future?

We plan to incorporate technologies that will lead to solutions for mortgage issues, such as the development of OCR and big data analysis platforms.

Our corporate culture

“It’s not about what you do, it’s about who you do it with.”

iYell is an employee-first company that values its people.
We want our employees to feel comfortable and fulfilled in their work, and to work happily with a smile on their face.

However, venture companies often have a negative image when it comes to working environment. That is why iYell has adopted many measures to improve the ease of working within its organization.

We introduce one new welfare per month, have many family-friendly vacations such as surprise leave and daddy maternity leave, and with an average of less than 20 hours of overwork per month, we have created an environment where it is easy to secure time for private life.

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