Staff Backend Engineer at Technology & Product

Zeals, a fast-growing tech company in Japan, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their engineering team. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining backend systems and infrastructure, developing robust APIs, optimizing server performance, and ensuring seamless integration with Frontend applications. The Staff Backend Engineer will contribute to the smooth operation and scalability of Zeals' systems, supporting various stakeholders and enabling advanced functionalities.

Responsibilities:

• Development with a focus on Clean Architecture of new services in Golang, using REST and gRPC interfaces
• Migration of interfaces from our legacy system as applicable (written in Python and Ruby).
• Design and implement features aligned with DDD architecture while documenting API specifications and data flow.
• Managing a team of engineers, mentoring, and guiding them to the next level
• Discover and triage issues with performance, reliability, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement scalable solution
• Depending on the team, participation in an on-call rotation with additional compensation might be required.

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

Zeals offers:

• Competitive salary
• Performance review twice a year
• 10 days paid holidays during the first year, weekends off, national holidays, summer and winter break and refreshment leaves
• Visa support
• Highly flexible, remote-first organization (in Japan), Interim work from overseas
• Housing allowance (within 1.5KM away from office)
• Club activity allowance
• Team building allowance and Lunch allowance
• Zeals Bar (bi-monthly free flow beer party)