Responsibilities
- Act as senior/staff engineer in a team of ~4 backend engineers, interacting frequently with the broader engineering team
- Develop client- and server-side (Google Cloud) backends for new features, generally in Kotlin or TypeScript
- Design feature and system architectures meeting robustness and scalability requirements
- Integrate with 3rd-party systems, such as LLMs or payment providers
- Mentor backend team members
- Develop proof of concepts as well as implement features end-to-end
- Proactively suggest and carry out system and team improvements
Requirements
- Proficiency in English and strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Role-model individual contributor able to develop end-to-end features quickly
- Strong experience and theoretical understanding of scalable system designs and data structures
- Experience implementing cloud-based services
- Ability to work independently and prioritize your own tasks, balancing importance and urgency and able to quickly switch contexts if needed
- Positive, solution-oriented attitude
- Ability to work in a diverse, full-remote team, generally with 4+ working hours overlap with JST timezone
Nice to Have
- Learned (non-native) 1+ spoken language to a high level and/or experience in CJK languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Docker, and/or Firebase
- Experience with Kotlin and/or TypeScript
- Experience in mobile development (e.g. iOS or Android native development and/or Kotlin multiplatform)
- Experience working with versioned release processes and/or multi-repo dependency coordination
- Experience with interacting directly with user communities
Benefits
- Remote Work
- Work from anywhere
- Flexible Time Off 36 flexible vacation/sick days per year.
- Flexible Working Hours
- No fixed hours. We value results over time clocks. Just be available with sufficient overlap with Japan timezone (4+ hours) for essential meetings and to collaborate smoothly with the team. Expectation of a minimum 40-hour workweek.
Additional Information
- A big plus if you also have Learned (non-native) 1+ spoken language to a high level and/or experience in CJK languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
- Ability to work in a diverse, full-remote team, generally with 4+ working hours overlap with JST timezone
