Shopify Developer

Job Title: Solution Architect

Work Location: Tokyo

Experience: 7-10 years

Number of Positions: 3

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect to join our dynamic team in Tokyo. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in designing, implementing, and deploying cutting-edge solutions involving Machine Learning (ML), Cloud Computing, Full Stack Development, and Kubernetes. The Solution Architect will play a key role in architecting and delivering innovative solutions that meet business objectives while leveraging advanced technologies and industry best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into scalable and efficient technical solutions.
• Design and implement complex systems involving Machine Learning, Cloud Computing (at least two major clouds such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and Full Stack Development.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of cloud-native applications with a focus on NoSQL databases, Python, and Kubernetes.
• Implement algorithms and provide scalable solutions, with a focus on performance optimization and system reliability.
• Review, validate, and improve architectures to ensure high scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency in cloud environments.
• Guide and mentor development teams, ensuring best practices are followed in coding, testing, and deployment.
• Contribute to the development of technical documentation and roadmaps.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and propose enhancements to the solution design process.

Key Skills & Requirements:

• Proven experience (7-10 years) as a Solution Architect or similar role, with deep expertise in Machine Learning, Cloud Architecture, and Full Stack Development.
• Expertise in at least two major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Solid experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and deployment.
• Strong hands-on experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Proficiency in Python, including experience with ML frameworks (such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.) and libraries for algorithm development.
• Must have implemented at least two algorithms (e.g., classification, clustering, recommendation systems, etc.) in real-world applications.
• Strong experience in designing scalable architectures and applications from the ground up.
• Experience with DevOps and automation tools for CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with microservices architecture and containerization.
• Knowledge of distributed systems and high-performance computing.
• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, etc.).
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Scrum.
• Knowing Japanese Language is an additional advantage for the Candidate. Not mandatory.

About HighLevel:  

HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced software engineer with strong technical and communication skills who has developed full stack web apps, created solid APIs and beautiful interfaces for consuming them in user friendly apps. Focusing on details and well written self documented code are essential for this position. You can expect to collaborate with a solid team of designers, product managers, developers and testers on a daily basis. You must be experienced in building highly scalable and resilient systems that can meet our customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Improve and create new lead capture domain models.
• Build backend & Frontend API features and architecture.
• Work cross-functionally across our platform, experience, integrations, payments and marketplace teams.
• Drive performance through benchmarking and optimization
• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end to end
• Collaborate closely with our leadership team including engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and products
• Uphold high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and systems you will encounter.
• Work on 1 to 2 products.
• Create and improve lead capture tools like funnels, websites, forms, surveys, social media
• Architect and build backend & Frontend APIs and features

Your Core Skills

• 4+ years of experience in a full-stack environment.
• Proficient with various programming languages and tools such as but not limited to Javascript, TypeScript, Vue.js, NodeJS, and GraphQL
• Must be able to work with a team and collaborate remotely.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset, are eager to take on different roles when necessary and know how to navigate a start-up environment.
• You are fulfilled by being a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users and take pride in working on projects involving a variety of technologies and systems.
• Ability to stitch together many different services and processes together, even if you have not worked with them before.
• Hold a great deal of empathy for your team and users, you are a steward of crafting great experiences.
• Have great communication skills and can thrive in a highly collaborative environment when working cross-functionally with many stakeholders.
• Driven by product quality, and innately know how to balance trade-offs with time to launch new features.
• A keen eye for design and love to think about user flows and user experiences.
• Must have experience with HTML5 and CSS3

Additional Skills

• Experience with the Nuxt.js framework is a plus.
• Experience with MongoDB profiling and query optimization.
• Using CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and TailwindCSS
• Experience working in the GCP (Google Cloud Platform) ecosystem.

Job brief

We are looking for a full stack developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

As a full-stack developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks, and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Work with development team to ideate software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation

Skill Set required

• Proven experience as a full-stack developer or similar role
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Knowledge of Node.js and multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks like ES6.
• Familiarity with MongoDB, web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind
• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field

• Plan, architect, integrate, and develop back-end and database driven features using the Python language and frameworks (Flask/ Falcon, MongoDB ).
• Create decoupled, interactive web UIs using JavaScript (Angular, jQuery)
• Aid in the development and ongoing maintenance of our DevOps platform (Ansible)
• Provide technical advice and recommendations for language and software choices.
• Develop code that is cross-browser and cross-platform friendly
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to ensure all requirements are met
• Evaluate technologies and manage technical planning
• Support and ongoing development for existing projects
• Provide clean code and proper documentation for each project
• Fix bugs and resolve ongoing issues

DESIRED SKILLS:

1. AWS (EC2/S3/Lambda)
2. DynamoDB
3. Node.Js + React.Js + Javascript
4. HTML5, CSS
5. Android Native (Java/Kotlin)
6. Socket.io / WebRTC (LiveStreaming)
7. Firebase
8. Elasticsearch
9. Prior experience in developing/integration livestreaming feature is essential.

JOB DESCRITION

1. Enhancing the existing features and developing the new features
2. Being able to develop the product independently and also with the team .
3. Being able to work under pressure and think out of the box.
4. Being a good leader with decent professional communication skills.
5. Knowledge and experience of Android Development is an added advantage

OUR PRODUCT

Understand The Product Features:

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1. Our product offers on-demand video lessons and quizzes in local languages.
2. Teachers can independently create and share their content.

WHAT WE OFFER:

1. Opportunity to work as a core team member
2. Direct Reporting to Founders
3. Exponential and 360 degree learning
4. Working with an experienced team from IIM
5. 4.2 - 9 LPA (INR) CTC + ESOPs (Optional)*

Product management

• Work closely with the product team to translate abstract business & product requirements into crisp technical specifications along with a delivery roadmap

Product Development

• Define code architecture decisions to support a high-performance and scalable product with a minimal footprint
• Developing the frontend/backend and APIs, primarily using the MERN stack for Troopod.
• Delivering a robust backend platform for the product by incorporating important considerations regarding minimal downtime, high availability, data redundancy, tight security, etc. into the design
• Preparing test cases, creating automated build and test processes, setting up systems for CI/CD, and monitoring for the product
• Deploying on AWS using the right services for optimal performance
• Support the Troopod mobile application in its entirety, including working on bug fixes and improving application performance, reliability, and stability
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Managing development and deployment of the product following Modular programming, proper documentation, and code versioning

Customer Success

• Ensuring seamless use of Troopod Web-app and Mobile App by clients or internal teams and successful integration of client systems with Troopod backend and APIs wherever applicable
• Assisting clients with necessary remote support needed for the smooth understanding of and integration with Troopod product

Team Growth

• Contributing to the growth of the engineering team through proactive effort on knowledge growth, process improvements, and performance enhancements on existing solutions

Prior experience in the following things is MUST:

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on technical development experience as a MERN stack developer
• In-depth knowledge of NodeJS, Express or Restify
• Experience implementing applications using ReactJS and React Native
• Experience in creating frontend applications using HTML5, Angular, React, LESS/SASS
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum 3-year experience with MERN Full-stack paradigm
• Should have worked on AWS(EC2), DNS, and other server features
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (Such as Git, SVN, or Mercurial)

• Development experience for high-traffic, consumer-facing web or mobile application
• Experience in building a chat or social media app
• Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, Javascript, JQuery
• Experience in hiring and leading a team of developers
• Open-source contributions
• Experience with next.js, serverless, and tailwind CSS
• Eat, sleep, code, and repeat is a typical mantra of your life

• Work in a well-funded startup with a team of 2nd-time founders from top tier colleges like BITS and NIT
• Chance to get decent equity and become part of the founding and core team
• Build a highly scalable product that would one day impact the lives of billions across the globe
• Get guidance from the best product and tech folks out there at leadership positions in Dunzo, Razorpay, Haptik, etc

Your Key Responsibilities

You will build robust, secure and scalable micro-services

• You will be responsible to implement RESTful service
• You will take ownership to build scalable, reliable and performant code that complies with our internal code guidelines
• Take part in code reviews and architecture development
• You will influence how we build individual features and products, and bring in best practices and patterns that can be used for engineering lifecycle
• You will be driving architecture and design discussions and will be responsible to run and maintain good infrastructure

What to Bring

B.Tech/ B.E. in Computer Science from a reputed college or related technical discipline with 5-8 years of experience in software development

• Knowledge for data structure and an eye for architecture
• Familiar with Git Architecture
• Experience with reactive programming
• Experience in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics
• Exposure to relational and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis)
• Exposure to server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ
• Experience in MEAN stack development
• Strong experience with AWS Stack