Remote Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join our team at Zeals, a fast-growing tech company in Japan, and be part of designing conversations that drive conversions. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in building and maintaining our backend systems and infrastructure, working on developing robust APIs, optimizing server performance, and ensuring seamless integration with Frontend applications.

Requirements

• Proficiency in development flow based on git and GitHub
• 8+ 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 current systems, processes, and services as needed
• Exhibit a strong ability to adapt in a dynamic and ever-changing environment
• Ability to solve problems, especially to identify the source of the problem, and create and test solutions
• Experience with Elasticsearch, including setting up, configuring, and maintaining Elasticsearch clusters
• Proven team-leading experience with the ability to mentor and guide team members

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and maintaining our backend systems and infrastructure
• Developing robust APIs, optimizing server performance, and ensuring seamless integration with Frontend applications
• Managing a team of engineers, mentoring, and guiding them to the next level
• Discovering and triaging issues with performance, reliability, maintainability, and extensibility
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement scalable solutions

Benefits

• Salary Range: competitive (performance review every 6 months)
• Performance review: twice a year
• Holidays: 10 days paid holidays during the first year, weekends off, national holidays, summer and winter break
• Visa support: We sponsor visas for the right candidates. You can expect full visa support from our professional HR team
• Flexible working: Highly flexible, remote-first international organization
• Housing allowance (within 1.5KM away from office)
• Club activity allowance
• Shuffle Lunch allowance (Cross department lunch)
• Zeals Bar (bi-monthly free flow beer party)