• Design the overall architecture and roadmap for Mercari’s backend systems
• Design and implement common middlewares and core microservices
• Work with the Platform and SRE team to provide a robust microservices platform
• Work across multiple backend teams to help design, build and evolve microservices
• Help form a healthy organization structure, define guidelines on service development, testing, deploy and monitoring to the whole engineering organization
• Help building and pushing forward the plans for FinOps initiatives, and the overall BE framework.
• You will be able to play an active role in our architecture team across the whole of Mercari in various business impacting areas, and partake in our journey of unleashing Mercari’s backend engineers’ full potential.
• The backend architecture team at Mercari enables you to tackle the potential challenges of our products in order to create both a collaborative and comprehensive environment for our service. You will gain deep insight into further empowering our products, and have the opportunity to work on large scale platforms that act as an essential support to the entire organization.

What makes you a great fit:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Graduate degree preferred.
• At least 15 years of experience in a variety of hands-on software/technology roles, preferably in Consumer Internet Products & Solutions in the cloud.
• Hands-on engineer with cloud-native skills, being comfortable with one of the cloud stacks, preferably GCP.
• At least 6 years of architecting, driving, and implementing multiple features on a Microservices stack at a high scale, performance, and reliability of at least 4 nines.
• Deep understanding & proven experience in the various dimensions of building and delivering multi-tenanted cloud-native Microservices
• Well-versed in challenges of distributed systems, modern cloud-native architectures, distributed data management in a cloud environment
• Exceptional written and verbal communication in pursuit of driving the mission forward.
• Influencing skills in balancing short and long-term objectives including technical and business outcomes.
• Familiar with Golang
• Deep knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Demonstrated skills in leading projects across multiple teams
• Exposure to Front-end architecture