Software Engineer, Backend Architect - Mercari

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English: IntermediateJapanese: Fluent

Mercari

Platform Engineer Role

JD in Japanese follows. 英文の後に和文JDをご覧いただけます。

Platform Engineer

Employment Status: Full-time
Work Hours: Full Flextime (no core time)
Office Location: Roppongi

About the Company

Circulate all forms of value to unleash the potential in all people.

"What can I do to help society thrive with the finite resources we have?" Our marketplace app was born in 2013 out of this thought. By circulating all forms of value, not just physical things and money, we aim to create opportunities for anyone to realize their dreams and contribute to society. Our vision is to use technology to connect people across the globe so anyone can unleash their potential.

Organization/Team Mission

Engineering Principles

Passion For The Product
Grow Together
Solve Through Mechanisms
Collaborate Openly

Team Information

Address cross-organizational technical challenges to improve quality, stability, security, and scalability across the company.
Lead the cycle of backend technology standardization: investigating issues, implementing and proposing solutions, executing, and supporting rollout.
Collaborate with Tech Leads and Product Managers to promote consistent architecture.
Continuously learn and introduce new technologies, incorporate them into the stack, and disseminate mechanisms and concepts to developers.
Lead the development of enabling mechanisms in collaboration with SRE and Platform teams.

Work Responsibilities

Design high-level architecture and create/implement/share guidelines and best practices.
Share, support introduction, and develop common mechanisms across the organization.
Investigate technical issues, propose solutions, implement, and support rollout.
Provide technical top-leading and organizational technical level improvement.
Develop and deploy services for internal developers.

Unique Challenges

Operate in a microservice architecture with 400+ microservices managed by 50+ teams, requiring identification and solution of cross-team architecture challenges.
High-impact technical decisions necessitate meticulous analysis of trade-offs, and balancing deep thinking with action.
Ensure high levels of security and compliance, while enhancing customer experience and development productivity.
Opportunity to own the end-to-end process, from planning to support for internal engineer-focused services.
Be a proactive problem solver, not just a supporter, who truly understands engineers' pain points.
Encourage internal and external output of developed services; development style respects OSS culture wherever possible.

Qualifications

Required Experience/Skills

Alignment with company mission and values.
Experience in backend or infrastructure development and operations.
Experience in data model design with RDBMS and NoSQL.
Knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) in practice.
Experience identifying and resolving technical issues (e.g., performance degradation).
Ability to independently discover technical problems and solve cross-organizational issues.

Preferred Experience/Skills

Development experience with Go.
Experience in cloud development using GCP or AWS.
Experience developing with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
Experience with microservice architecture in software development and operation.
Secure system design using authentication/authorization.
Technical decision-making using DesignDoc or ADR.
Focus on organizational as well as individual productivity.
Strength in understanding and generalizing abstract requirements.
Capable of continuous development/improvement with operational cost in mind.
Willingness to propose/execute solutions for diverse domain issues.
Experience developing/operating internal managed services and SDKs.
Experience solving internal issues via OSS development and contributions.

Language

English: Intermediate (CEFR-B1) required
Japanese: Proficient (CEFR-B2) required

CEFR Level Details

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Equal Opportunity Hiring

We strive to realize a world in which no one's potential is limited by their background. Inclusion & Diversity is essential to our mission. We are committed to eliminating discrimination and ensuring everyone who shares our mission/values can join us.

Inclusion & Diversity Statement

プラットフォームエンジニア

雇用形態： 正社員
働き方： フレックスタイム制（コアタイムなし）
勤務地： 六本木

会社について

あらゆる価値を循環させ、あらゆる人の可能性を広げる。

「地球資源が限られているなか、より豊かな社会をつくるために何ができるか」。この課題意識からフリマアプリが2013年に誕生しました。物理的なモノやお金に限らずあらゆる価値を循環させることで、誰もがやりたいことを実現し、人や社会に貢献する選択肢を増やせると信じています。テクノロジーの力で世界中の人々をつなぎ、あらゆる人の可能性が発揮される世界を目指しています。