Global Team (English Speaking Role) Leading FinTech Company

■ Job Title

Staff Backend Engineer (Golang/GO)

■ Company Overview

A tech-driven company focusing on transforming financial services through innovative solutions. They provide numerous services that help simplify financial management for both individuals and businesses.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

• Set project specifications and guide the technical direction of initiatives, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
• Establish and maintain a framework of technical standards and procedures to ensure consistency across projects and teams.
• Oversee the quality of software and system modifications, ensuring that all changes meet high standards of performance, security, and reliability.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, especially during troubleshooting and problem-solving efforts.
• Analyze existing operations to identify risks, inefficiencies, and redundancies, and develop strategies to address them.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments to design innovative solutions that enhance system efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
• Gain extensive business knowledge, particularly in managing data systems through account aggregation and applying this knowledge across services.
• Contribute to the planning and implementation of infrastructure measures that enhance service stability and support long-term technological and operational goals.
• Lead and drive standardization efforts across the organization to ensure cohesive and efficient engineering practices

■ Experience and Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in the development and operation of medium to large-scale web services, with a strong foundation in Golang.
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing Web APIs and microservices, ensuring they are scalable, robust, and aligned with industry best practices.
• Deep knowledge of relational databases and data modeling, with extensive experience in SQL and database design.
• Extensive experience in cloud computing, particularly with AWS, and a track record of building and managing cloud-based systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to lead and drive standardization initiatives across teams and projects.
• Experience in software architecture and systems testing, with a focus on ensuring the scalability, performance, and reliability of solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical guidance, mentor engineers, and make critical decisions essential for successful project management and execution.
• Wide knowledge base across various technologies, with the ability to apply this knowledge to lead and collaborate on cross-functional initiatives.
• Effective communication skills for collaborating across organizational boundaries and managing inter-team projects.
• Proven leadership in managing and mentoring teams, fostering growth, and promoting best practices within the engineering organization

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Kafka, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and experience in multinational teams.
• Advanced cloud computing experience and familiarity with Agile methodologies.

■ Good Reasons to Join

• Engage with advanced financial technologies.
• Lead projects with a great societal impact in a dynamic and innovative environment.
• Work within a collaborative, international team setting

■ Work Location

Tokyo
Hybrid work, 2-3 days to the office.

■ Salary 

Up to 12 Million JPY (Based on interview performance evaluation)

■ Contract term

Permanent

Details will be provided during the meeting.