Engineering Manager, Microservices Platform

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

Mercari is looking for Engineering Manager, Microservices Platform who can commit to the goal of maximizing the engineering team’s output.

Microservices Platform team uses Kubernetes to create microservice platforms for Mercari and its subsidiaries, such as Souzoh and Merpay. Your main role as an engineering manager will involve developing tools and services that will increase the development speed for Kubernetes Cluster Admin and microservices.

As a Microservices Platform engineering manager, you must work with the team to propose and implement measures to support team members, nurture their professional growth, and expand the team as a whole. In doing so you will ensure that the Microservices Platform team functions effectively across Mercari as a whole and contributes towards maximizing the output of the company. Team’s roles also include developing and operating highly reliable microservices while keeping scalability in mind.

Responsibilities:

• Creating and promoting measures to help drive the transition to microservices:
  • Developing and promoting a long-term vision and roadmap for the transition to microservices
  • Developing and promoting policies to increase developer productivity
• Proposing and implementing strategies to solve problems and improve our engineering organization, such as:
  • Proposing and developing new Tech Projects (projects by the engineering teams) with team members
  • Planning and running internal events (Lunch & Learn, EM Philosophy Talk, etc.) for sharing knowledge and increasing understanding of the organization
  • Participating in hiring and PR activities to grow our engineering organization
• Maximizing engineering output and encouraging career growth through tasks such as:
  • Handling goal setting and evaluations for engineer growth each quarter, in addition to holding 1-on-1 meetings for regular communication and feedback
  • Assigning projects and roles to engineers, considering future career growth

Your qualification

• Experience developing with container management tools (Kubernetes, Swarm, Mesos, etc.) or container runtime (Docer, rkt, etc.)
• Experience on system architecture design
• Management experience
• Experience working on projects across teams
• Experience mentoring engineers
• English: Business Level

Will be a plus

• Experience making technical decisions as a tech lead
• Experience operating systems using microservice architecture
• Experience hiring engineers (screening applications, interviewing, direct recruiting, hosting events, etc.)
• Japanese: Conversational level

What we offer

• Health insurance
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Incentive program
• Full transportation coverage
• Custom PC
• Dual screen if needed
• Company smartphone
• New Employee Benefits at Mercari「mercibox」