
Software Engineer, backend
Mercari, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Minato City • Japan
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About the role
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, warehouse operators and QA to deliver high-impact features and improvements.
- Design and implement critical features within a high-volume global platform.
- Mentor junior engineers, lead code reviews, and actively contribute to architectural decisions and technical documentation.
- Help to shape the team technical vision and direction by contributing to process and tooling improvements.
Requirements
- Shared belief in the mission and values of Mercari Group and its various companies
- Have 3+ years of experience working on large-scale backend systems
- Project management or team leadership experience
- Have experience with backend design, development, and operational skills considering the load of large-scale services
- Experience designing, developing and operating APIs in the Go programming language
- Have knowledge and experience in data model design and data query to efficiently utilize databases (RDBMS, NoSQL)
- Have Cloud Computing development experience, especially with GCP or AWS
- Have development experience in a team using Git / GitHub or similar version control systems
- Experience developing and operating with Microservices architecture or with Monorepo architectures (preferred)
- Experience in on-call support of services (preferred)
- Knowledge of security in web applications (preferred)
- Experience in integrating development with third parties (preferred)
- Experience in publishing and contributing to OSS (preferred)
- Experience with AGILE methodology (preferred)
- English: Independent (CEFR - B2) required
- Japanese: Basic (CEFR - A2) optional
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
GoAPI developmentbackend designdata model designdata queryRDBMSNoSQLCloud ComputingGCPAWS
Soft Skills
project managementteam leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunication