About Us
Mercari is a Japan-based C2C marketplace company founded in 2013 with the mission to “Create value in a global marketplace where anyone can buy & sell.” From being the first tech unicorn from Japan before its IPO in 2018 we have come a long way towards becoming a global player and continuously and diligently work towards our transformation journey with a strong focus on our mission.
Since its inception, Mercari Group has worked to grow its services, investing in both our people and technology. Over time Mercari has expanded from being the top player in the C2C marketplace in Japan to new geographies like the U.S. We have also successfully launched new businesses such as Merpay, which is a mobile payment service platform with a vision to create a society where anyone can realize their dreams through a new ecosystem centered not only on payment service but also on credit. Today, Mercari Group is made up of multiple subsidiary businesses including logistics, B2C platform, blockchain, and sports team management.
For our services to be utilized by people worldwide; however, there is still a mountain of work ahead of us. This endeavor naturally requires the capability of the best talent and minds, and that is exactly the reason for us to launch the India Center of Excellence. With your help, we will continue to take on the world stage and strive to grow into a successful global tech company.
Our Culture
To achieve our mission at Mercari, our organization and each of our employees share the same values and perspectives. Our individual guidelines for action are defined by our three values: Go Bold, All for One, and Be a Pro. Our organization is also shaped by our four foundations: Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion, Trust & Openness, and Well-being for Performance. Regardless of how big Mercari gets, the culture will remain essential to achieving our mission and something we want to preserve throughout our organization. We invite you to read the “Mercari Culture Doc,” which summarizes the behaviours and mindset shared by Mercari and its employees. We continue to build an environment where all of our members of diverse backgrounds are accepted and recognized, and where they can thrive while holding dear to Mercari’s culture.
Role Background
- As Mercari's user base continues to grow rapidly, reaching approximately 21 million active users, and as our platform expands to include new lines of businesses, it is imperative that our backend architecture remains highly resilient and adaptable in order to meet the evolving needs of our customers. Providing a robust and extensible support system for our users and new business ventures is paramount to our continued success.
- The Backend Architects team serves as the driving force behind Mercari's marketplace architecture, playing a crucial role in providing cutting-edge design and architecture solutions to support the company's ongoing expansion. Their responsibility lies in empowering and enabling all of Mercari's backend teams with the latest and most advanced architecture designs to support our rapid growth.
- As a backend architect in the team, you will support different high priority and high impact projects across different areas in the marketplace, providing the proper guidance, tackling complex problems and performance issues, and make sure that BE teams’ are on the right track.
- You will be part of the short-term, mid-term, and long-term plans for FinOps activities and cost optimization, and provide the comprehensive and extensible framework that empowers the development teams.
Specific work responsibilities include the following:
- 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.
Unique and Bold Challenges
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Preferred Requirements
- 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 architectures
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Benefits
Working Conditions
Employment Status: Full-time
Office: Bangalore
- Hybrid workstyle
- We believe in high performance and professionalism. We work from office for 3 days/week and work from home 2 days/week.
- To build a strong & highly-engaged organization in India, we highly encourage everyone to work from our Bangalore office, especially during the initial office setup phase
- We will continue to review and update the policy to address future organizational needs
Work Hours
- Full flextime
*Flexible to choose working hours other than team common meetings
