Senior Backend Engineer/English（Workflow Engine）

This position is for the CADDi DRAWER Group Workflow Engine Team, the Platform Team based on Team Topologies, that collaborates with other teams to provide a solution to run heavy workloads in an asynchronous way. The team's mission is to provide and maintain a platform to execute tasks in an orchestrated, concurrent, and scalable way. Some examples of the tasks the platform deals with are drawing conversion, attribute extraction, ML-based drawing features analysis, etc.

The team actively uses Kubernetes to run a workflow engine and Rust/Typescript to define domain logic, executed as workflow steps.

Specific duties examples are:

• Platform design and implementation

• Evaluating middleware, frameworks, etc.

• System architecture design

• Cost/performance tuning

　* Besides the team we are recruiting for this time, you may be assigned to other teams depending on your experience and preferences. (In that case, we would be happy to discuss this with you at the interview.) 　* After joining the company, your role may change due to organizational growth or an individual's career perspective.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience developing backend systems for web applications
• Experience in decision-making regarding technology selection, architecture design, and construction for the entire service.
• Hands-on experience with statically typed programming languages (such as Rust/Java/C++/Go, etc)
• Experience in development using public cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, etc.
• Business-level English proficiency *team communication is mainly in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Conversational-level Japanese proficiency(Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 or above is a guideline; external communication is a mix of Japanese and English).
• Hands-on experience with Rust. *Rust is mainly used for the workflow engine
• Hands-on experience operating services using Kubernetes
• Proficiency with container technologies such as Docker
• Hands-on experience designing, developing and operating microservices
• Hands-on experience developing websites with consideration of security requirements
• Hands-on experience designing and developing large-scale services
• Hands-on experience in two or more programming languages (including frontend languages, including personal projects).
• Fundamental knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in building and operating monitoring infrastructure using tools like Datadog.

We want to work with individuals who have this kind of mindset

• Individuals who understand our mission "Unleash the potential of manufacturing".
• Individuals who can confront essential challenges and take action with a sense of ownership to resolve them.
• Individuals who can perform their duties with a positive attitude and constructive discussions in fast-changing and highly uncertain situations.
• Individuals who can communicate and discuss with a respectful attitude, considering the context and resolution of others.