Job Description
Career Opportunity for a Backend Engineer in Japan!
■ Backend Engineer
■ Company Overview
One of the biggest B2C product companies in Japan. Its known as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products.
■ Your Role and Responsibilities
●Develop and operate services in both Kotlin and Perl environments. While promoting new development using Kotlin, facilitate migration from Perl to Kotlin as needed when modifying existing features.
● Lead the development of back-end services for user-facing features.
● Design architectures that enhance efficiency and flexibility.
● Design and develop services that maintain high standards of availability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
● Collaborate with other teams and actively participate in code reviews and design reviews to support high-quality implementation.
■ Experience and Qualifications
● 5+ years of server-side application development experience.
● Experience and skills in issue handling and incident response.
● Knowledge of and experience using scalable data storage technology such as MySQL.
● Fundamental computer science knowledge.
● Business level verbal communication skills in Japanese or English.
● Business level written communication skills in English.
■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
● JVM application tuning and monitoring.
● Development experience with Kotlin
● Experience in the coaching, management and/or leadership of a technical team.
● Kubernetes-based application development.
● Product and Service Development: Kotlin, Ktor
● Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch
● Storage: MySQL
● Infrastructure: Container(Kubernetes), VM/PM on Private Cloud.
● Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Configuration repository: ArgoCD, GitHub Actions
■ Good Reasons to Join
● Flexible working hours
● Competitive salary and benefits
● Opportunity to work with global tech teams
■ Work Location
Tokyo, Japan
Details will be provided during the meeting.