Zeals – Backend Engineer
As our Staff Backend Engineer
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will be a key player in our engineering team,
responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our backend systems and
infrastructure. You will work on developing robust APIs, optimizing server
performance, and ensuring seamless integration with Frontend applications.
Your work will ensure the smooth operation and scalability of our systems,
supporting the needs of various stakeholders and enabling advanced
functionalities.
Your Typical Day with Us
Development with a focus on Clean Architecture of new services in
Golang, using REST and gRPC interfaces
Migration of interfaces from our legacy system as applicable (written in
Python and Ruby).
Design and implement features aligned with DDD architecture while
documenting API specifications and data flow.
Managing a team of engineers, mentoring, and guiding them to the next
level
Discover and triage issues with performance, reliability, maintainability,
and extensibility.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and
implement scalable solution
Depending on the team, participation in an on-call rotation with
additional compensation might be required.
What You’ll Need
Proficiency in development flow based on git and GitHub
8+ years of experience in Software Engineering or a similar role, with
preferably experience in Golang
Strong sense of testing, including unit tests and integration tests
Ability to communicate recommendations for improvements on current
systems, processes, and services as needed
Exhibit a strong ability to adapt in a dynamic and ever-changing
environment
Ability to solve problems, especially to identify the source of the problem,
and create and test solutions
Experience with Elasticsearch, including setting up, configuring, and
maintaining Elasticsearch clusters
Proven team-leading experience with the ability to mentor and guide
team members
What Makes You Stand Out
Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Clean Architecture
Working knowledge of gRPC and RESTful API
Working knowledge of RDB and SQL
Experience in Google Cloud Platform
Experience in Continuous Integration tools like CircleCI
Experience in issue management systems like Jira
Japanese communication skills
Experience in development using Python, Ruby, NodeJS
Experience in using tracing and metrics in deriving performance
optimizations and troubleshooting
Don’t just take our word for it
Zeals has received the LinkedIn Top Startups award twice in a row. We believe
this is a testament to our growth and our ability to attract great talents–who
could potentially be your colleague!
Our Tech Stack
Backend Languages: Go, Python, Elixir
Frontend Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (TypeScript, React.js, Recoil,
Zod, Tanstack, etc)
Mobile Languages: None
Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, GCP Pub/Sub, Kubernetes,
MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, Qdrant
Configuration management tool: Terraform
CI/CD: Github Actions, ArgoCD, CircleCI
Monitoring: Grafana, GCP Cloud Monitoring, GCP Logging, GCP Cloud
Trace, Opsgenie
Data: BigQuery, Parquet, Spark, Scala, Python, dbt
Knowledge Tools: Confluence
Other: GitHub / Slack / Jira
Process: Scrum
Ready to roll up our sleeves
We're obsessed with bringing hospitality to everyone – whether it's our
customers or you! You’re an individual with unique needs, and while we may not
have ping-pong tables or all-you-can-drink espresso bars to offer, we promise
you a once-in-a-lifetime experience and co-workers you’ll be proud to brag
about to your friends, family, or anyone you meet the next time you go out! As
an employer, we're ready to roll up our sleeves and change the status quo if it
means making your experience better.
Salary Range: competitive
Performance review: twice a year
Holidays: 10 days paid holidays during the first year, weekends off,
national holidays, summer and winter break.
Visa support: We sponsor visas for the right candidates.
Flexible working: Highly flexible, remote-first organization (in Japan),
Interim work from overseas
Housing allowance (within 1.5KM away from office)
Club activity allowance
Team building allowance and Lunch allowance
Zeals Bar (bi-monthly free flow beer party)
