Senior BackEnd Engineer (Python/API)

Partial Remote
Full-time
December 23, 2023

Description

Background:

We use Python to develop several key backend products. As part of a global engineering organization, we expect you to accelerate our product improvements. You will be working closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, SRE, BackEnd, FrontEnd, and mobile application engineers to deliver growth to our products.

What You Will Do

Brainstorm and do design sprint with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and FrontEnd Engineers to build new features, architectures.
Develop web API by using Python and Flask.
Maintain and improve existing products (mainly Python).
Build and improve CI/CD pipeline by using gitlab ci, k8s, docker, terraform and so on.
(Optional) Develop and improve GraphQL server by using Node.js.
(Optional) Develop ETL platform by using Python and Airflow.
(Optional) Develop a new API with modern technology such as Go or Scala for architecture improvement.

Requirements

Technical Skills

6+ years of building software development with software development.
3+ years of back-end and web API development experience.
1+ years of building software development with Python.
Experience leading technical decisions.
Experience designing architecture.
Experience developing web products using Python.
Experience developing web products using Flask or equivalent restful API framework.
Experience developing products using docker and k8s.
Experience developing products using No-SQL and RDB or equivalent understanding.
Experience developing on AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud systems or equivalent understanding.

Soft Skills

English(80% of engineers are non-Japanese. We are a very international team.)
Highly organized person.
Have motivation for team development.
Empathy for Behavior Identity of WealthPark.
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.

Preferred Experiences

Nice to have:

Knowledge of CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab CI, ArgoCD.
Leadership experience
Deep understanding of some domain or business model
Experience about Apache Airflow
Experiences of development by PHP, Ruby, Scala
Experience working in the real estate or Fintech industry
Experience about Event-Driven Architecture
Experience with GraphQL.
Communication in Japanese (not required)

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About WealthPark

WealthPark(ウェルスパーク)は、個人投資家・不動産管理会社へ、資産運用・管理プラットフォームアプリケーションを提供するスタートアップです。東京・台北・香港・ニューヨークに拠点があり、日本・中国・台湾・香港・米国・英国・カナダと、グローバルにサービスを展開しています。

WealthParkが狙うのは、4200万人を超える世界中の富裕層に向けた「世界一のオルタナティブアセット（非流動資産）の資産運用プラットフォーム」です。

2018年11月には米国へ進出し、米国の不動産テック・コミュニティとの関係強化を積極的に進めています。また、世界の不動産テック企業が集う「WealthPark NYC」では日本のスタートアップ企業で初めてオフィシャルイベントとして認定されました。不動産テックの本場ニューヨークから、グローバル市場を見据えて挑戦し続けています。

会社全体として、社員の半数以上が外国籍（12か国以上）で構成されたダイバシティ豊かなチームです。現在社内公用語は日本語ですが、英語対応を進めており、国籍に関係なく優秀な人材が活躍できる環境を積極的に構築しています。また、エンジニアリング部門は多国籍人材が9割以上というグローバルな環境で、日本語を不問としており、英語環境です。

現在のWealthParkは、0から1になるフェーズを超え、1を10にするフェーズです。国際色豊かで多様性に溢れたメンバーと、お互いの言語や文化の違いを超えてコミュニケーションをとっていける方が活躍できる環境です。英語力を磨きながら多様性のあるチームで働きたい方にオススメです?

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)