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Backend Engineer (Python) - Technical Lead

WealthPark Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥7M ~ ¥8.5M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 5+ years experience required
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About WealthPark

WealthPark Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

WealthPark provides digital solutions that promote business efficiency to Property Managers. Our service is widely used by many Property Managers both domestically and abroad.

Key benefits

  • 90% of engineers are non-Japanese
  • A big say in what you do
  • Flexible working hours

About the position

The Data Connection team is in charge of importing large amounts of data from 3rd party sources into Wealth Park’s system. This is an essential part of our future, and is rapidly scaling up.

We do this using Python , Apache Airflow, PSQL, and AWS to host and support many of our applications and systems.

You will be working closely with the other development teams and closely to the business side.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical decisions
  • Support and mentor team members
  • Design, develop and test new features
  • Improve scalability
  • Onboard new clients
  • Identify and fix problems
  • Suggest improvements and make sure they happen

Requirements

  • Backend development professionally for 5+ years or abilities matching such experience
  • Experienced in Python development
  • Experienced in SQL
  • Experienced in system design
  • Knowledge of CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD
  • Good at identifying and solving code, performance and SRE related problems
  • Leadership experience
  • Ability to take responsibility of a task and see it to completion
  • Ability to work on a task / project with other engineers
  • Ability to communicate clearly with non-engineer stakeholders
  • Experienced in mentoring

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Experienced working with Big Data
  • Experienced in performance optimization
  • Experienced with AWS
  • Experienced in SRE
  • Experienced with Docker
  • Able to communicate in Japanese
  • Experience working in the real estate or Fintech industry

Compensation

7 to 8.5 million JPY annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Document Screening

  2. 2

    1st Interview

  3. 3

    2nd Interview

  4. 4

    Final Interview

Meet WealthPark's Developers

David Robertson talks about how he taught himself programming to pivot his career from teaching to programming, and what it's like to work as a Backend Developer at WealthPark.

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