Introduction
Our Mission
Mercari has sought to expand overseas from the outset. This led us to enter the US market in 2014, the year after Mercari’s founding. The US is home to people of diverse backgrounds, of many different races, nationalities, and religions. Laws and culture also differ from state to state. Growing our US service requires grappling with complex problems and issues. This is exactly why we think of the US as a microcosm for our future global expansion. It’s an extremely important country for us, where we cannot afford to fail. While this makes it much more difficult than our Japan-side operations, our US business contributes greatly to achieving Mercari’s mission, and we will continue to face the challenges of the US market going forward.
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 behaviors 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 Mercari’s culture.
Position Overview
Work Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and grow a team of engineers through technical design, implementation, testing, and deployment of web applications and supporting services
- Understand individual engineers’ motivations and encourage their personal and career growth along with the growth of the business
- Maintain effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional partners
- Partner with product management, data analytics, business operations and other engineering leaders to build and deliver the roadmap of your team
- Plan for long term growth and help recruit excellent engineering talent
Bold Challenges
- The search is one of the core functions at Mercari, which connects millions of buyers and sellers. To satisfy diverse customer needs, you will work collaboratively with product managers, machine learning and backend engineers to architect and build advanced systems.
- Design highly scalable systems that can support the continued growth of Mercari US
- Proactively share ideas and contribute to our engineering culture
- Gain a deep understanding of the US market to ensure Mercari’s continued success
- You will work with a great team based in Tokyo, and also collaborate with many teammates across the US. Working globally with a diverse team, we’re all-in to help people in the US buy and sell on Mercari, while getting ready for whatever comes next.
Required Experience
- Shared belief in Mercari’s mission and values
- Experience designing, developing, and managing microservices with Docker and Kubernetes or similar systems
- 3+ years of combined experience in managing software engineering teams
- Experience hiring and onboarding new employees
- Exceptional communication skills to coordinate with stakeholders across departments
- Experience developing complex software systems scaling to millions of users with production-quality deployment, monitoring, and reliability
Preferred Experience
- Experience in developing and maintaining search applications using Elasticsearch, Solr, Algolia etc.
- Experience with cloud- native architectures (e.g., within AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure)
- Excellent knowledge of search engines and distributed systems
- Experience tuning relevance and ranking of search results
- Demonstrated ability to write code with appropriate tests
- Experience working in large, cross-functional teams
- A positive attitude and an insatiable desire to learn
Screening Criteria
- Please provide your resume in English
- We will conduct interviews in English
- Hiring Process Overview (subject to change)
- 1. Doc Screening
- 2. Interviews (3-4 rounds. There are some cases you will meet a few members in 1 round)
- 3. Background check
- 4. Offer
- 5. Hire
*Check here for more details
Language Requirements
- English: Independent (CEFR - B2) required
- Japanese: Basic (CEFR - A2) optional
- * For details about CEFR, see here
About メルカリ
日本初のユニコーン企業、メルカリは日本で最も多くのユーザー数を誇る、フリーマーケットアプリを運営しています。国籍に関わらず国内外から優秀な人材を大規模に採用しています。シリコンバレーにもオフィスがあり、アメリカ向けにローカライズしたメルカリアプリを開発し、アメリカのフリーマーケット市場でもシェアを拡大しているグローバルテック企業です。
「限りある資源を循環させ、より豊かな社会をつくりたい」。創業者である山田進太郎氏が世界一周の旅で抱いた、そんな問題意識によって生まれたのがフリマアプリ「メルカリ」です。テクノロジーの力によって、世界中の個人と個人をつなぎ、誰もが簡単にモノの売り買いを楽しめる。それにより資源を循環させる豊かな社会、個人がやりたいことを実現できる社会をつくっていきたいと考えています。
これまで中古品の売買は、実店舗で行うのが一般的でした。しかし、お店に行くのに時間がかかること、お店の品揃えが限られていること、販売店が介在することで買い手も売り手も価格が不明瞭になるなどの問題がありました。また、中古品を売買するためのオンライン・オークション・サイトでは、出品手続きが難しかったり、入札に時間がかかったりするなどの問題がありました。
メルカリでは、誰もがスマートフォンを使って簡単に商品を売買することができます。また、配送業者やコンビニエンスストアとの提携により、簡単で安価な配送方法を実現しています。買う側も売る側も個人を対象としたサービスなので、不要なものを簡単に売ってお金にする楽しさや、ユニークな中古品を見つけて買うワクワク感を誰でも味わうことができます。
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