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Bilingual Backend Engineering Lead, E-Commerce Platform
| Location | Tokyo - 23 Wards |
| Job Type | Temporary |
| Salary | 7 million yen ~ 9 million yen |
Job Description
Join a large-scale digital commerce organization as a Backend Engineering Lead, driving the design, development, and delivery of mission-critical backend systems. This role combines hands-on engineering, technical leadership, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration in a bilingual environment.
Client Details
Our client is a leading technology and e-commerce organization operating large-scale online platforms that serve millions of users. The company offers a collaborative international environment, advanced engineering practices, and the opportunity to influence the future of digital commerce products.
Description
- Lead backend development initiatives from requirement gathering and technical planning through deployment and post-release support.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders in both Japanese and English to define project scope and technical solutions.
- Design and develop scalable backend services, Web APIs, and batch processing systems.
- Drive architectural decisions with a focus on performance, reliability, maintainability, and security.
- Create technical specifications, design documents, and engineering proposals.
- Review code, establish development standards, and promote engineering best practices.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across project teams.
- Present technical recommendations and project updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Improve team productivity through process enhancement and technical innovation.
- Ensure high-quality delivery of backend solutions within a complex e-commerce ecosystem.
Job Offer
- Opportunity to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineering talent.
- End-to-end ownership across planning, architecture, development, and deployment.
- Exposure to high-traffic, consumer-facing digital commerce systems.
- Modern engineering environment leveraging AI-assisted development tools.
- International and multicultural collaboration across global teams.
- Access to cutting-edge technologies including Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka, cloud-native services, and large-scale distributed systems.
- Hybrid work environment in Tokyo.
- Excellent opportunity to influence product direction and business outcomes through close stakeholder engagement.
To apply online please click the 'Apply' button below. For a confidential discussion about this role please contact Serena Wu on +81 3 6627 6137.
General Requirements
| Minimum Experience Level | No experience |
| Career Level | Mid Career |
| Minimum English Level | Fluent |
| Minimum Japanese Level | Business Level |
| Minimum Education Level | Bachelor's Degree |
| Visa Status | Permission to work in Japan required |
Required Skills
Experience & Leadership
- 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
- 3+ years of technical leadership, team lead, or people management experience.
- Proven experience delivering complex software projects from planning through production release.
- Track record of working with cross-functional teams including Product, Frontend, QA, and Business stakeholders.
- Business-level Japanese and English communication skills.
- Ability to participate in stakeholder discussions, requirement gathering, and technical presentations in both languages.
- Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot within large-scale production environments.
- Deep understanding of RESTful API design, authentication, and authorization.
- Advanced experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, including schema design, optimization, and transaction management.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, containerized environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of software development best practices and code review processes.
- Solid understanding of secure software development, web security principles, and risk mitigation.
- Experience designing scalable, reliable distributed systems and microservices architectures.
- Agile/Scrum delivery experience.
- Experience acting as a technical point of contact for stakeholders.
- Background creating RFCs, technical specifications, or architecture documentation.
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Asana, Linear, or Notion.
- Experience partnering with Product teams on roadmap planning.
- Understanding of e-commerce business models and customer journeys.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Knowledge of modern architecture patterns including DDD, Clean Architecture, and SOLID principles.
Job Location
- Tokyo - 23 Wards
Work Conditions
| Job Type | Temporary |
| Salary | 7 million yen ~ 9 million yen |
| Industry | Software |
