Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
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Senior/staff backend engineer focused on building scalable cloud solutions for Migaku language learning platform. Engaging in system architectures, mentoring, and end-to-end feature development.
Responsibilities:
- Act as senior/staff engineer in a team of ~4 backend engineers, interacting frequently with the broader engineering team
- Develop client- and server-side (Google Cloud) backends for new features, generally in Kotlin or TypeScript
- Design feature and system architectures meeting robustness and scalability requirements
- Integrate with 3rd-party systems, such as LLMs or payment providers
- Mentor backend team members
- Develop proof of concepts as well as implement features end-to-end
- Proactively suggest and carry out system and team improvements
Requirements:
- Proficiency in English and strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Role-model individual contributor able to develop end-to-end features quickly
- Strong experience and theoretical understanding of scalable system designs and data structures
- Experience implementing cloud-based services
- Ability to work independently and prioritize your own tasks, balancing importance and urgency and able to quickly switch contexts if needed
- Positive, solution-oriented attitude
- Ability to work in a diverse, full-remote team, generally with 4+ working hours overlap with JST timezone
Benefits:
- Remote Work
- Flexible Time Off
- Flexible Working Hours


















