Staff Backend Engineer

October 15

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Zeals Co., Ltd.

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AI • Communication Design • Digital Transformation • Conversational Commerce

201 - 500 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

Description

• As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will be a key player in our engineering team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our backend systems and infrastructure. • You will work on developing robust APIs, optimizing server performance, and ensuring seamless integration with Frontend applications. • Your work will ensure the smooth operation and scalability of our systems, supporting the needs of various stakeholders and enabling advanced functionalities. • Development with a focus on Clean Architecture of new services in Golang, using REST and gRPC interfaces. • Migration of interfaces from our legacy system as applicable (written in Python and Ruby). • Design and implement features aligned with DDD architecture while documenting API specifications and data flow. • Managing a team of engineers, mentoring, and guiding them to the next level. • Discover and triage issues with performance, reliability, maintainability, and extensibility. • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement scalable solution. • Depending on the team, participation in an on-call rotation with additional compensation might be required.

Requirements

• Proficiency in development flow based on git and GitHub • 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering or a similar role, with preferably experience in Golang • Strong sense of testing, including unit tests and integration tests • Ability to communicate recommendations for improvements on current systems, processes, and services as needed • Exhibit a strong ability to adapt in a dynamic and ever-changing environment • Ability to solve problems, especially to identify the source of the problem, and create and test solutions • Experience with Elasticsearch, including setting up, configuring, and maintaining Elasticsearch clusters • Proven team-leading experience with the ability to mentor and guide team members • Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Clean Architecture • Working knowledge of gRPC and RESTful API • Working knowledge of RDB and SQL • Experience in Google Cloud Platform • Experience in Continuous Integration tools like CircleCI • Experience in issue management systems like Jira • Japanese communication skills • Experience in development using Python, Ruby, NodeJS • Experience in using tracing and metrics in deriving performance optimizations and troubleshooting

Benefits

• Salary Range : competitive (performance review every 6 months) • Performance review: twice a year • Holidays: 10 days paid holidays during the first year, weekends off, national holidays, summer and winter break. • Visa support: We sponsor visas for the right candidates. You can expect full visa support from our professional HR team. • Flexible working: Highly flexible, remote-first international organization • For Japanese residence: Work from anywhere, interim work from overseas, full flex time • Housing allowance (within 1.5KM away from office) • Club activity allowance • Shuffle Lunch allowance (Cross department lunch) • Zeals Bar (bi-monthly free flow beer party)