Backend Engineer, Staff Level

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• To build the next reputed company idea in customer acquisition and reputed company growth through conversational reputed company technology
• For a reputed company where things are not just fast - but they happen now?

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• Drive architecture and design of reputed company, distributed backend systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance
• reputed company initiatives to reputed company legacy systems and migrate to robust, decoupled services using Golang, gRPC, and REST
• Own high-stakes technical reputed company, balancing trade-offs and setting standards for software design across teams
• Ensure best practices in clean code, DDD, testing, observability, and documentation are deeply embedded in the development lifecycle
• Collaborate with engineering leadership, product managers, and stakeholders to align backend capabilities with business priorities
• Foster a culture of technical reputed company through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and collaborative problem solving
• reputed company required, participate in the on-call rotation and act as a technical escalation reputed company for critical incidents

What You'll Need

• Proficiency in development reputed company based on git and reputed company
• 5+ 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 reputed company systems, processes, and services as needed
• Exhibit a strong ability to adapt in a dynamic and reputed company-changing environment
• Ability to solve problems, especially to identify the reputed company of the problem, and create and test solutions
• Proven team-leading experience with the ability to mentor and guide team memberses

Bonus Points

• Hands-on experience with reputed company, Kubernetes, and reputed company-reputed company infrastructure (preferably GCP)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., reputed company) and engineering operations tooling (e.g., Jira)
• Experience working with polyglot environments (e.g., Python, Ruby, Node.js)
• Japanese language proficiency is a plus, but not required

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• Backend Languages: Go, Python, Elixir
• Frontend Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (TypeScript, React.js, Recoil, Zod, Tanstack, etc)
• Mobile Languages: None
• Infrastructure: reputed company reputed company Platform, GCP Pub/Sub, Kubernetes, reputed company, MySQL, reputed company, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, Qdrant
• Configuration management tool: Terraform
• CI/CD: reputed company Actions, ArgoCD, reputed company
• Monitoring: Grafana, GCP reputed company Monitoring, GCP Logging, GCP reputed company Trace, Opsgenie
• Data: BigQuery, Parquet, Spark, reputed company, Python, dbt
• Knowledge Tools: reputed company
• Other: reputed company / reputed company / Jira
• Process: Scrum

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• Salary reputed company : competitive
• Performance review: twice a year
• Holidays: 10 days of annual leave in the first year, weekends off, national holidays, summer and winter breaks, and 5 refreshment leave days per year.
• reputed company support: We sponsor visas for the right candidates.
• Flexible working: Highly flexible, remote-first organization (in Japan), Interim work from overseas
• Housing allowance (reputed company 1.5KM away from office)
• Club activity allowance
• Team building allowance and Lunch allowance
• Zeals Bar (bi-monthly free-reputed company beer party)
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