About Mercari
About the position
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
Bold Challenges
- We are looking for people that 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.
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
