Remote Backend, Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a passionate and enthusiastic team leader to drive the entire process of development, implementation, and operation, along with defining cross-functional specifications and requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field
• 5+ years of experience as a team lead in large-scale application product development, covering requirement design, risk and cost management, scope coordination, dependency identification, daily development management, architecture design, coding, testing, CI/CD, operation, maintenance, and documentation
• Proficiency in Go (Gin or similar tools), SQL, NoSQL, and synchronous/asynchronous communication protocols (Web API, gRPC, Kafka, AMQP, MQTT), as well as Docker
• Extensive experience and knowledge in testing design/frameworks and implementation
• Experience with DevOps tools and platforms such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD tools, Jira, Confluence, AWS, GCP, or MS Azure
• Proficiency in business-level English

Responsibilities

• Drive the majority of DevOps processes and oversee the qualitative and quantitative outputs of the backend software services team
• Exercise technical judgment when collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Direct and manage each step of the system development process and the release of deliverables
• Point of contact for production incidents and investigation
• To ensure stable operation and maintenance, improve and automate existing system designs, codebases, CI/CD, development process and tools
• Prepare documentation for colleagues and report to managers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in API development (OpenAPI Specification (OAS)) with microservices architecture using Kubernetes, EKS, Fargate
• Experience in data platform design and development
• Practical experience or certificate for a SCRUM master and PO
• Experience and skills of Bazel, Kubernates, Argo Flux, Jenkins etc
• Proficiency in business-level Japanese

Benefits

• Competitive Salary - Based on experience
• Work Hours - Flexible working time with NO core-hours
• Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated)
• Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated)
• Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company
• Japanese Social Security - all applicable (Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance)
• In-house Training Program (software study/language study)