Engineering Manager - Backend

We are looking for people who are interested in our services, mission, and values and want to work where engineers can go bold, use the latest technology, make autonomous decisions, and take on challenges at a rapid pace. People with enthusiasm and empathy can lead and manage several teams.

Responsibilities:

• Engineering managers are committed to creating organizational structures and solving organizational issues, creating a place where engineers can play more active roles.
• Mercari's engineering organization has members from a variety of backgrounds.
• By managing teams with diversified experiences, nationalities, cultures, etc., they are responsible for drawing out the potential of teams and individuals and producing greater results.
• The main components of the role are as follows:
• Recruiting, training, goal setting, evaluation, and providing feedback to engineers.
• Maximizing the results of engineer members and supporting their career growth.
• Assigning engineers to projects and supporting the communication needed to carry them out.
• Problem-solving for the engineering organization as well as proposing and executing growth strategies.
• Planning and implementing in-house events to deepen understanding of expertise and organization.
• Project management experience.
• Coordinating with multiple stakeholders.
• Helping and reviewing the technical decisions of tech leads.
• Designing the architecture of an entire system.
• Managing a multicultural team.
• Hiring engineers (application screening, interviewing, direct recruiting, event hosting, etc. )

Requirements:

• Shared understanding and belief in the Mercari Group's mission and values.
• Experience in software development.
• At least 3 years of experience as an engineering manager, along with people management.
• Experience developing and operating large-scale products.
• Knowledge of and experience with databases (RDBMS/NoSQL), networks, Linux, monitoring systems, logging, operations, and SLO/SLA.
• Development and operation using a microservices architecture.
• Cloud development experience (preferably GCP or AWS).
• Understanding of UI development.
• OSS contribution experience/familiarity with the OSS community.

Strong experience in one of the following:

• Backend: Design, development, and operation of APIs using Go or PHP.
• Machine Learning: ML modelling or development experience with ML systems.
• Data Engineering: Architecture and development of large-scale data/BI on cloud platforms, ETL (i. e., dbt, Dataform, Informatica, and Talend), and BI (Looker, Tableau, and Power BI).

Skills

AWS, Amazon Web Services, GCP, Go, Golang, Google Cloud, PHP, microservices