Staff Engineer - Cross Border, Mercari India
BengaluruFull-time10–12 yrsPosted 3 weeks ago
Leadership engineering role at Mercari, Inc. (India) in Bengaluru. Needs 10–12 years.
About the role
Staff Engineer - Cross Border, Mercari India at Mercari, Inc. (India). Shape technical direction for XB (cross-border) backend systems that let buyers in the US, Taiwan.
What you'll do
- Lead cross-team design across the cross-border buying journey: discovery and search, item detail, pricing and landed cost, checkout and payments, and post-purchase
- Set clear service boundaries and API contracts, including BFF patterns for iOS, Android and Web
- Design and build maintainable Go services, staying hands-on in the hardest parts. Use coding agents and AI-assisted review to raise both speed and quality
- Build for multi-region from day one, so one global app platform serves every market consistently, without fragmenting per country
- Own reliability for systems that span JP marketplace services, partner APIs, payments and third-party providers
What you need
- System design
- Kubernetes
- GCP
- Data modelling
- LLMs
- Go
Good to have
- Machine learning
- Elasticsearch
- React
- iOS
- Android