Engineering Manager

About Mercari

We believe the world needs a place where people can exchange their loved goods. That’s why we built Mercari—to connect people who want to buy and sell things of emotional value through their mobile phones. Mercari has grown to become a leading community-powered marketplace that brings together millions of people every day.

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Position

Remote work is also possible.

Mercari’s culture has been central to the company since our founding, with the three core values of Go Bold, All for One, and Be a Pro. In addition, the “Trust & Openness” value was introduced to embody our culture of mutual trust, where information remains transparent and rules are kept to a minimum. Regardless of how big Mercari gets, the culture will remain essential to achieving our mission and is evidenced throughout our organization.

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
• Engineering Culture
• Tech Stack

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.

Your qualification

• Developing and operating large-scale products
• Software development
• Engineering management
• Project management
• Coordinating with multiple stakeholders

Will be a plus

• 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

Screening Criteria

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Language Requirements

• English: Business level
• Japanese: Conversational (preferred)

What we offer

Employment Status

Full-time

• Probationary period: First 3 months after joining the company (During this period your contract conditions will be the same as that of a permanent employee)

Office Location

Roppongi

• Smoking is prohibited within our offices
• Mercari has introduced a work style policy called “Your Choice.” Each member is free to choose whether they want to work in the office or work fully remote. *Exceptions made for certain kinds of work

Work Hours

• Scheduled working hours: 10 AM – 7 PM
• Currently, due to COVID-19 pandemic, we have introduced a full-flex system without core time to increase the choice of working hours and allow for more flexible working styles (*does not apply to all positions)

Holidays

• Two days off per week (as well as national holidays, New Year's break, etc.)
• Paid leave, congratulatory and bereavement leave, relax days, sick leave

Salary

• Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)
• Based on skills, experience, and abilities
• Reviewed twice a year

Benefits

• Complete health and social insurance
• Incentive program
• Language learning support
• Support systems, including those that benefit employee family members
• Translation/interpretation support
• *See this page for details

Additional details

Media

Corporate Sites

• Mercari, Inc.
• Mercari US

Owned Media

• Mercari Careers
• Mercari Engineering Portal
• Mercan - Introduces the people that make Mercari
• Mercari US Careers
• Mercari US Blog