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Senior Server Side Engineer at Mercari

San Francisco/Palo Alto, California, United States   (Posted Mar 6 2018)
About the company
Mercari is a customer-to-customer, mobile marketplace that provides a hassle-free and secure way to buy and sell items from the convenience of your mobile device or tablet. We first launched in Japan in 2013 and quickly rose to be the #1 shopping app. After success in Japan, we opened our first U.S. office in 2014 and more recently expanded into the U.K. With 35MM downloads in the US, and over 100MM worldwide. Every single day, 100k new listings are posted and we are seeking a Server-Side Engineer, Go to join our growing San Francisco team, which will be moving to Palo Alto mid-2018.

Job position
Permanent - Remote work is NOT possible

Job description
Contribute high quality production code for our product that is secure, reliable, maintainable, and scalable
Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
Build efficient, testable, and reusable Go modules
Create and maintain technical documentation

Skills & requirements
Software Engineering:

3+ years of Go experience
Writing testable code with proper unit tests
Good understanding of MVC design pattern
Experience with proper testing, staging, and production environments
Scaling:

Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Experience working with large datasets (millions of records)
Tools:

Familiarity with the LAMP environment
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Experience using a ticket management system, preferably JIRA
Technologies we use:

Tech Stack: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
API Wrapper: Go
Web Services & Hosting: AWS
Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
Caching: Memcached, Redis
Serialization: Protobuf, JSON
Message Queue Engine: Q4M
Big Data: Kibana, BigQuery

Instructions how to apply
Go to our careers page: https://www.mercari.com/careers/?gh_jid=4013601002
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