Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Content Platform)
백엔드 엔지니어정규직시니어 · 경력 무관
스마트뉴스에서 백엔드 엔지니어를 채용합니다. Java/Kotlin 및 클라우드 인프라에 대한 탄탄한 실력을 갖추고 대규모 아키텍처를 설계할 수 있는 분을 찾습니다. 영어로 원활한 협업이 가능해야 하며, 제품 전략을 기술적 솔루션으로 구현하는 역할을 수행합니다. 시니어급 역량을 바탕으로 데이터 기반의 문제 해결을 주도할 분들의 많은 지원 바랍니다.
SmartNews is a leading global information and news discovery company dedicated to delivering quality information to the people who need it. Thanks to our unique machine-learning technology and relationships with more than 3,000 global publisher partners, we provide news that matters to millions of users.
Founded in 2012 in Tokyo, SmartNews also has offices in Osaka (Kansai Office), Palo Alto, New York and Singapore.
If you share our vision and are passionate about our mission, we encourage you to apply!
Content Platform Team is a team of experienced backend engineers responsible for the core structure of SmartNews’ content pipeline, integration with respectable partners/publishers, processing data received to make them available for Machine Learning and ranking pipeline, and also ensuring that our company delivers quality information by building sophisticated moderation systems.
We handle and process hundreds of millions of contents per months, not only with text-based articles but also multimedia like videos, images, audio and user-generated-contents, ensuring that the latest, relevant, high quality information is available to users in a few minutes as soon as the pipeline discovers it.
Our team is a small team with high-agility providing chances to work with multiple stacks, best recommended practices, up-to-date industry standard and highly encourages experimentation/engineering driven initiatives.
Being able to work closely with teams across departments, such as advertising, media, business/product manager, machine learning, etc to ensure that the features we are delivering stays relevant to the market needs with real-world impact is one of our biggest excitements.
Together with our Company’s Core Value, the team also emphasizes strong, end-to-end ownership and accountability. Each initiative is grounded in data, aligned with business goals, and contributes to strengthening both vertical and horizontal initiatives.
In this role, you will translate business goals and product strategies into impactful engineering solutions at scale. You will design, implement, test, deploy the solutions that you proposed and finally monitor the great impact that you have created.
You will directly collaborate closely with Product, Business, and cross-functional engineering teams to identify opportunities, define success metrics, and deliver measurable improvements through data-driven solutions. Be ready to face challenges that require you to enter new domains, think out-of-the-box and provide solutions that never exist before.
Strong foundation in high scale architectures with high output efficiency
Java/Kotlin (having no difficulties picking up new frameworks), scripting, and some common frontend stacks (e.g React)
Capability for navigating complex, large-scale codebase.
Solid coding skills with attention to code quality, readability, maintainability. Strong problem-solving skills (not limited to engineering)
Solid background in IaaS, Cloud infrastructure/services, SaaS
Team player, able to coach/be-coached, follow recommended practices, adopt the value of Nothing is Somebody Else’s problem.
Business-level proficiency in English with the ability to collaborate effectively with local Product and Business stakeholders.
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