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Engineering Manager (Backend Architect) - Merpay

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Minimum year of experience: 5

Mercari

Job Description

This job requires Japanese language ability. JD is available in Japanese only.

Introduction

"Creating a richer society in the face of limited global resources, what can we do?" In 2013, Mercari was born from the awareness of this issue that founder Shintaro Yamada developed during his trip around the world. We believe that by circulating all values, not just physical goods and money, we can realize what everyone wants to do and increase the choices for contributing to people and society.

We will realize a world where the potential of everyone can be demonstrated by connecting people around the world with the power of technology. Please see the Mercari Culture Doc for more information on the direction that Mercari Group should aim for.

Equal Opportunity in Selection

At Mercari, we strive to create a society where individuals can seize opportunities to create value freely, regardless of their background, and we believe that the concept of "Inclusion & Diversity" is essential for Mercari to achieve its mission.

In our selection process, we promise to eliminate all forms of discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, physical ability, or any other symbols, and to welcome individuals from diverse backgrounds who empathize with Mercari's mission and values.

Please see the I&D statement for more details.

Job Details

Mission of the Team / Job Requirements

Mission and Required Role of the Backend Architect team:

  • As the manager of the Backend Architect team, you will commit to the growth of products created by Merpay from the perspective of solving engineering organization challenges and maximizing organizational achievements.

※ Please see here for more details about Mercari's mission and values.

Specific job responsibilities are as follows:

  • Create a strong engineering organization through recruitment and training.
  • Support the growth and career development of engineers (goal setting, evaluation, feedback).
  • Assign engineers appropriately based on individual growth and company situation.
  • Discuss the validity of technical choices with VPoE, CTO, and tech leads of each team, and contribute to the correct technical growth of the organization and individuals.
  • Collaborate with product managers and tech leads to support the success of products.

Development Environment:

  • Programming Language: Go
  • Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud SQL, Datastore, Storage, Stackdriver Logging, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, etc.)
  • Configuration Management Tool: Terraform
  • Analytics Platform: BigQuery / Looker
  • Monitoring: Stackdriver Monitoring / Datadog
  • Others: Circle CI / GitHub / Slack / JIRA / Crowi / Spinnaker / Sentry
  • Development Methodology: Agile (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

Unique Challenges

  • As a team that works closely not only with Merpay but also with Mercari, there are many opportunities for organizational management to solve the challenges unique to large-scale services.
  • In the Fintech business field, we have consistently adopted a microservice architecture since its inception, and more than 50 teams manage over 100 microservices. You will be able to strategically plan management with engineers on how to approach technical aspects in the development and operation of large-scale micro-architectures.
  • You can develop business management capabilities focusing on GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) in order to establish the Fintech field as a viable business.

Requirements

  • Sympathy with Mercari Group and each company's mission and values
  • Able to promote the growth of engineers and commit to maximizing the organization
  • Development experience in the backend or SRE fields
  • Project management experience
  • High communication skills, including interdepartmental coordination and mentoring of engineers

Preferred Qualifications

  • Work experience in financial institutions or FinTech companies
  • Communication skills in English

Selection Criteria

  • Able to assign engineers appropriately while understanding the priorities of the business
  • Able to challenge new technical areas with a wide range of technical knowledge
  • Able to commit to the success of the business and the growth of engineers while properly understanding the WILL / CAN / MUST of engineers
  • Able to solve organizational problems by demonstrating high communication skills

Please see here for more details.

Language Ability

  • English: Basic (CEFR-A2) welcome
  • Japanese: Proficient (CEFR-C1) required

※ Please see here for more information about CEFR.

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Employment Conditions

Employment Type

Full-time employee

  • Probationary period: 3 months (same conditions as regular employment)

Office

Roppongi

  • Measures against passive smoking: All areas indoors are non-smoking
  • Mercari has a system called "YOUR CHOICE" regarding work style. You can choose to work in the office or choose full remote work. Excluding some positions

Working Hours

  • Flextime system (no core time, no flexible time)

    Please inquire for exceptions for some positions.

Holidays

  • Two days off per week (national holidays, year-end and New Year holidays, etc.)
  • Paid leave, condolence leave, relaxation leave, sick leave

Salary

  • Monthly salary (including fixed overtime allowance)
  • Determined based on skills, experience, and capabilities
  • Reviewed twice a year

Benefits

  • Various social insurance benefits

  • Incentive system

  • Support system for employees and their families

    Please see here for more details.

Support

  • Relocation support
  • Language learning support
  • Translation and interpretation support

Please see here for more details.

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