Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design large-scale systems with high complexity to support our high-throughput applications.
• Understand how to leverage infrastructure for solving such large-scale problems.
• Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible.
• Adopt problem solving as a way of life - always go to the root cause! Support the code you write in production.
  

Requirements

• Tech Stack: Java, Kotlin, Scala, Spring Boot, JUnit, Resilience4j, Feign, MySQL/AuroraDB, DynamoDB, ELK, Kafka, Redis, TiDB, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS, GCP, GitHub, IntelliJ, Gradle, Maven, npm/yarn, Flyway, Jenkins, Snyk, BigQuery, Kibana, Spark, PlantUML, draw.io, Miro.com, Slack, Zoom.
• 6 years of experience having excellent skills in Java and any other generalized programming language, such as Scala, Python, or Go.
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, along with distributed cache.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
• In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing.
• Experience implementing platform components such as RESTful APIs, Pub/Sub Systems, and Database Clients.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience designing high-traffic systems.
• Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science, or 5+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development.
• Business of English or Japanese.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in working on system development in finance, payment, or similar industries.
• Language ability in Japanese and English is a plus (We have a professional translator, but it is nice to have language skills).
• Experience with AWS services.