Hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer in Japan!

■ Senior Backend Engineer

■ Company Overview

An e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications company with more than 30,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to work on core search system development. The role will build the search systems, the fast iteration of search development.

• Build a fast and robust Search product by keeping optimizing system performance and improving service stability.
• Construct a high freshness index and provide reliable offline data support for Search Engine.
• Guarantee reasonable Search architecture governance to ensure that the overall system operates smoothly.

■ Experience and Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in either backend service development or data engineering domain.

• Strong programming skills and solid knowledge in data structure and algorithms.
• Good understanding of operating systems and networking concepts.
• Hands-on experience with at least one data processing framework (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Flink, etc)
• Knowledge in the database (be it relational or KV-like) is a plus.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding on how the modern Search system is built or/and how modern Search products should be evolved.
• Industry experience in building a consumer-facing Search product.
• Japanese speaking and reading capability is good to have.

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.