Work 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 career their 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 implementation of in-house events to deepen understanding of expertise and organization
Required Experience
- Developing and operating large-scale products
- Software development
- Engineering management
- Project management
- Coordinating with multiple stakeholders
Preferred Experience
- Making technical decisions for a team as a tech lead
- Designing the architecture of an entire system
- Managing a multicultural team
- Hiring engineers (application screening, interviewing, direct recruiting, event hosting, etc.)
- Strong experience in at least one of the following:
- Backend: Design, development, and operation of APIs using Go or PHP
- Frontend: Development related to frontend fields such as web browsers, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, or Redux
- Mobile: Development using Swift or Kotlin
- Machine Learning: ML modeling or development experience with ML systems
- Knowledge of and experience with databases (RDBMS/NoSQL), networks, linux, monitoring systems, logging, operations, and SLO/SLA
- Development and operation using microservices architecture
- Cloud development experience (preferably GCP or AWS)
- Understanding of UI development
- OSS contribution experience / familiar with OSS community
