Backend Engineer

This role designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend systems for Fanicon, a subscription-based premium fan community platform where fans engage directly with artists and other personalities. The engineer works with product managers, engineering managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand business challenges and turn them into technical solutions. Responsibilities include leading and mentoring engineers, supporting the development of junior team members, making technical decisions, improving backend architecture, identifying areas for improvement, resolving complex technical issues, and maintaining system scalability and reliability.

Required experience includes at least five years in backend development and system architecture, along with a record of designing and scaling backend systems in high-performance environments. The role requires expertise in cloud computing, microservices architecture, and containerization, including Kubernetes. Experience with databases is required, with SQL preferred, including performance optimization, data modeling, and scaling strategies. The role also requires strong problem-solving, communication, stakeholder collaboration, technical ownership, delivery in a fast-paced environment, continuous learning, and experience leading and coaching engineers. Business-level Japanese and English are among the minimum qualifications, while the language requirements also allow business-level proficiency in Japanese or English.

Preferred experience includes distributed systems, high-traffic applications, and systems serving more than millions of users. Additional preferred qualities include constructive collaboration with stakeholders, interest in the entertainment industry and in designing experiences for artists and fans, and a product-first mindset.

The position is based at the Harajuku Office in Shibuya, Tokyo. Employment is full-time, as a permanent employee or contract employee, with a six-month probationary period. Reassignment may occur to other work determined by the company, and the work location scope includes company-designated places where telework is performed.