Lead BackEnd Engineer

Tokyo
Remote OK
Full-time
December 23, 2023

Job Description

As the Lead Backend Engineer, you create an organization in which the tasks and project status of the team are shared with transparency, and in which the Business, Product, and related teams can work together in the best possible way.
As the Lead Backend Engineer, lead backend teams through the leader to create a culture where each team can take ownership while promoting information sharing and cooperation.
Constantly consider the balance between the time required for system improvements and the time used to deliver the functionality required by the business, and optimize it in discussions with the stakeholder.
Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers to build new features, architectures.
Maintain and improve existing products.
Develop a new API with modern technology.
Conduct code reviews, and make technical contributions to product architecture as well as get involved in solving bugs and delivering small features
Make culture backend engineers can write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
Improve product quality, security, and performance
Generate and implement process improvements
Sharing of information necessary for members to exercise a higher quality of autonomy
Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team
Hold regular 1:1's with all members of their team
Give regular and clear feedback around the individual’s performance

Required Requirements

Technical Skills/ Experiences

7+ years of building software development experience
2+ Experience of development by Go
2+ years of engineering management experience building productive, high functioning teams. You can describe why these teams were high functioning and what you specifically did to ensure engineers felt productive
Experience with programming languages -- e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala
Experience in web API development
Experience using NoSQL(e.g MongoDB)
Experience in designing tables and queries of RDBMS
Experience using Continuous Integration systems (e.g. GitLab CI, Jenkins)
Experience using Docker and containerized architectures (e.g. Kubernetes).
Be able to lead technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team.
Deep understanding of OAuth and open id connect
Experience running and maintaining a variety of cloud infrastructure especially AWS

Soft Skills

Be able to weigh several and often conflicting constraints and make decisions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company
Strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you
English communication skills (80% of engineers are non-Japanese. We are a very international team)
Highly organized person
Have motivation for team development
Be able to weigh several and often conflicting constraints and make decisions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company
Continuously learn new technologies and find ways to solve issues and requirements

Preferable Requirements

Experience in event-driven architecture with microservices
Experience in real estate or Fintech-related products

Benefits

Salary and Evaluation system
It will be decided in consideration of experience and skills.

Annual salary system
Evaluation: twice a year
Probation time: 3 months (conditions do not change during the probation time)
The annual salary includes 35 hours of overtime work

Insurance
Social insurance (Health insurance, Employee pension, Employment insurance)

Working Hours

10:00～19:00
* flextime system (core time 11:00 to 16:00)

Holiday and Leave

Saturday and Sunday
Public holidays
Refresh holidays
New-year / Year-end holidays
Annual paid leave
Celebratory leave
Special holidays
Postnatal leave
Parental leave

Welfare and Other

Welfare

Welcome lunch (with CEO, with Division and Department)
Welcome drinking
Internal events (Year-end party etc.)
Free drink (Water server and instant coffee and tea)
Installation of vending machines

Other

PC: MacBook Pro + 1 Monitor *Monitor can only be used in the office
No smoking in the office
Until COVID-19 is settled and we're ready to issue visas, you can start working remotely from abroad

Selection Process

Document screening
1st interview
2nd interview
3rd interview
Final interview
* The selection flow may be changed
* During the selection period, we may arrange opportunities for casual talks with team members in addition to interviews

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About WealthPark

WealthPark is a start-up that helps investors and real estate companies manage their assets. It's a global company with offices in Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, New York.

WealthPark's goal is to help all the personal investors in the world invest in alternative assets, with a focus on real estate. Their online platform is built with this in mind, and to help modernize the global real estate industry.

Since starting their US business in November 2018, they've been aggressively expanding into the tech community there, and WealthPark NYC is one of the only officially recognized US real estate start-ups that started in Japan. WealthPark is at the forefront of the US real estate industry in New York.

WealthPark has already made it from 0 to 1, and now they're focused on getting from 1 to 10. They want to build an even larger, more diverse team to further expand their product and achieve global success. We recommend WealthPark highly for those that want to work on a diverse team in English.

Our Service

Owner App
Anytime, anywhere. Real Estate management at your fingertips.
WealthPark Business
New synergy between property managers and investors.
WealthPark Asset Management
Leader in Japan Inbound Real Estate Asset and Property Management for Foreign Investors.

Japanese Language Policy
English and Japanese are both official languages at WealthPark.

Japanese is still the main language spoken, but we've built an environment where anyone can thrive as long as they've got the skills required.
We're actively working on improving their English support to help accomplish this.

For engineering in particular, 90% of our team members are non-Japanese, so there's no need to know Japanese (the engineering team speaks primarily English).

We have a lively environment where Japanese, English, Mandarin, Cantonese and other languages are spoken :)
Visa Sponsorship
We do sponsor visas for candidates living outside of Japan.
Paid Leave
- Saturday and Sunday
- Year-end and New Year Holidays (from 30th December through 3rd January)
- National holidays
- Annual Paid Leave
- Refreshment Leave
- Congratulatory and Condolence Leave
- Menstruation Leave
- Sick Leave
- Child Care Leave
- Family-care Leave
Benefits
💻 Dual display for those who want to use it (PC: MacBook Pro + 1 Monitor *Monitor can only be used in the office)

📱 Mobile rental for business use

🍔 Welcome lunch (with CEO, Division and Department), Welcome drinking

☕️ Free drink (Water server and instant coffee and tea)

🍹 Installation of vending machines

👍 No smoking indoors

💛 Internal events (Year-end party etc.)

💜 Various social insurance benefits included
Engineer Interview Process
(1) Document screening

We will contact you if you are able to proceed to the interview stage

(2) Interview
- We set up 3 or 4 interviews.
- The selection flow may be changed
- During the selection period, we may arrange opportunities for casual talks with team members in addition to interviews.
Remote Work
WealthPark requires their members to come to Japan if they are living abroad. There is no designated in-office day, but full remote work is not possible, and it is necessary to live within a commuting area from the office.
Work style
- 10:00～19:00
  - flextime system (core time 11:00 to 16:00)
Behavior Identity

WealthPark's Behaviour Identity was created in 2020. Since we are a "global" and "cross-boundary" team, we use English as our standard language.

CUSTOMER CENTRIC
We act and think based on our customers' expectation and needs. Our business dedicates to providing and adding values for our customers.

GO BEYOND
We go beyond our roles and positions to take actions that we know will help the business as a whole. We are always proacrtively interacting and helping each other.

APPRECIATION AND RESPECT
We respect diversity and communicate appreciation to the team, and show it with words and acting.

COMMIT TO RESULTS
When we commit to something, we will go the distance. No matter what the difficulty is we think about why we can do it, not why we cannot, and stick to delivering the results.

DO THE RIGHT THING
We always act with integrity and honesty to the society. We take pride in doing the right things.

Learn more
- Pitch Deck (written in Japanese)