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Software Engineer, Frontend (Shops) - Mercari
- Employment Status:Full-time
- Work Hours:Full Flextime (no core time)
- Office: Roppongi
- For more details, see the Overview of Our Positions section on our Careers site.
About Mercari
Circulate all forms of value to unleash the potential in all people
"What can I do to help society thrive with the finite resources we have?" The Mercari marketplace app was born in 2013 out of this thought by our founder Shintaro Yamada as he traveled the world. We believe that by circulating all forms of value, not just physical things and money, we can create opportunities for anyone to realize their dreams and contribute to society and the people around them. Mercari aims to use technology to connect people all over the world and create a world where anyone can unleash their potential. For more information about Mercari Group’s mission, see Mercari’s Culture Doc.
Organization/Team Mission
Mercari Engineering Principles
Mercari Engineering Principles are a shared understanding that serves as the foundation of engineering beliefs and behavior at Mercari. The Engineering Principles are designed to complement the organizational identity (Mercari’s mission, values, and culture) from an engineering viewpoint.
These principles ultimately help us achieve Mercari’s mission by defining the ideal state we seek to realize in the long term.
- Passion For The Product
- Grow Together
- Solve Through Mechanisms
- Collaborate Openly
For more details, please see the following link: - Engineering Culture
Team mission:
To enhance and expand the Mercari Shops platform by delivering high-quality, user-centric features that empower our customers and business sellers, driving growth and innovation in the B2C marketplace.
(Learn more about Mercari's mission and values here.)
Work Responsibilities
- Create intuitive, seamless, and engaging user experiences for both customers and business sellers.
- Develop and deploy new features that meet market demands, leveraging the latest frontend technologies and practices.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals and user needs, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Ensure the platform is scalable and performs optimally, accommodating the growth of our user base and the increasing complexity of features.
- Maintain a high standard of code quality and reliability through rigorous testing and best practices in frontend development.
Unique 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.
Qualifications
- Required Experience/Skills
- Shared belief in Mercari’s mission and values
- Developing, operating, making decisions when selecting technology, and continuous improvement of large-scale product codebases
- Knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript
- Ability to design and develop with performance and scalability in mind
- Extensive knowledge of object-oriented software development, networking, memory management, and software testing
- Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders
- Preferred Experience/Skills
- Project management and/or team leadership
- Knowledge of swc, turborepo and other frontend toolchain
- Development and operation in a microservices architecture
- Knowledge of and experience with database (RDBMS, NoSQL), network, Linux server, surveillance system, logging, SLA, SLO, and system operation
- Cloud development experience (preferably GCP or AWS)
- OSS contribution experience / familiarity with the OSS community
- Language
- English: Independent (CEFR - B2)
- Japanese: Independent (CEFR - B2)
* For details about CEFR, see here
Learn More About Mercari Group
Recruiting at Mercari
At Mercari Group, we value empathizing with and embodying the mission and values of the Group and each company. To promote the creation of an organization that maximizes the total amount of value exhibited by all members, we would like to understand the experience and skills of each candidate as accurately as possible.
Recruiting cycle at Mercari Group
- Application screening
- Skill assessment: For engineering positions, you will be asked to complete a skill assessment on HackerRank or GitHub. For non-engineering positions, you may be asked to complete an assessment depending on the position. (The timing of the assessment may coincide with the interview process.)
- Interview: The number of interviews may vary depending on the position.
- Reference check: We will ask for online references around the timing of the final interview.
- Offer: Offers will be determined carefully in consideration of the final interview and the reference check.
Learn more about our recruiting process here.
Equal Opportunity Hiring
Here at Mercari, we work to realize a world in which no one’s potential is limited by their background and everyone has the opportunity to freely create value. We also firmly believe that a mindset of Inclusion & Diversity is essential for us to achieve our mission.
This, of course, extends to our hiring practices as well. Mercari is committed to eliminating discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, physical disability, and other such factors so that anyone who shares our mission and values can join us, regardless of their background. For more details, please read our I&D statement.
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