Job Description
Career Opportunity for a Backend Engineer (Senior Staff) in Japan!
■ Backend Engineer (Senior Staff)
■ Company Overview
With over millions of active users worldwide, the platform is a leading messenger, while also maintaining a strong presence in many countries. Guided by the mission to create an exceptional life platform that delivers an excellent experience, it is dedicated to transforming the digital landscape through services spanning chat messaging, entertainment, fintech, lifestyle offerings, and more.
■ Your Role and Responsibilities
● Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend features and APIs
● Drive collaboration across organizational boundaries, aligning with Product, SRE, Security, and other Platform teams to enhance system reliability, observability, and user experience while ensuring efficient delivery meeting business needs.
● Drive enhancements to test automation, monitoring, and incident response practices.
● Shape the long-term technical vision, decision-making, and roadmap for evolving our backend architecture to meet future demands, aligning with organizational goals
● Mentor engineers and foster a culture of learning, quality, and continuous improvement.
■ Experience and Qualifications
● Strong proficiency in developing and maintaining large-scale backend services using Java, Kotlin, Scala or similar.
● Experience leading mid-to-high complexity and impactful projects coordinating with stakeholders to meet the business needs.
● Proven track record of providing strong technical leadership by shaping architecture and driving standards across teams.
● Proficiency in system monitoring, incident management, and reliability practices.
● Demonstrated self-drive and ability to deliver timely results.
● Effective team player with a strong track record of collaboration and successful project delivery in cross-functional environments.
■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
● Experience with distributed data storages such as Redis, MongoDB, Apache HBase, Apache Kafka.
● Proficient with SRE practices, including defining and monitoring SLIs/SLOs.
● Knowledge in Security Engineering for backend systems. Awareness of and modern security best practices in software development.
● Proficient with test engineering for highly concurrent systems.
● Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and software deployment best practices.
● Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and Kibana.
●Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.
■ Good Reasons to Join
● Hybrid position in Japan
● Work with International team members
■ Work Location
Tokyo, Japan
Details will be provided during the meeting.