Staff Engineer - Cross Border

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer – Cross Border based in India. As a Staff Engineer – Cross Border, you will shape the technical direction of a global e-commerce platform connecting international buyers with sellers in Japan. You will lead the architecture and development of scalable backend systems that support a seamless shopping experience across multiple countries, currencies, and regulatory environments. Working across engineering teams in India and Japan, you will drive cross-functional technical decisions, establish reliable service boundaries, and simplify complex distributed systems. This hands-on leadership role combines strategic system design with practical implementation, production reliability, and engineering mentorship. You will also help establish an AI-native engineering culture by integrating coding agents and AI-assisted development practices into everyday workflows. Your work will directly influence platform scalability, engineering productivity, and the successful expansion of a global marketplace into new regions Accountabilities - Define technical direction: Shape the architecture of cross-border backend systems supporting international customers purchasing from Japanese marketplace sellers. - Lead cross-team system design: Coordinate architecture across the entire purchasing journey, including discovery and search, product details, pricing, landed costs, checkout, payments, and post-purchase experiences. - Establish clear service boundaries: Define robust API contracts and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) patterns that support iOS, Android, and web applications. - Build scalable backend services: Design, develop, test, and maintain reliable Go services while remaining hands-on with complex technical challenges and critical implementation work.

- Enable global platform scalability: Develop systems that support multiple regions through a consistent global platform, avoiding unnecessary country-specific fragmentation. - Own production reliability: Establish standards for observability, safe deployments, incident response, and continuous operational improvement across marketplace services, partner integrations, payment systems, and third-party providers. - Accelerate engineering delivery: Help two to four engineering teams overcome complex design challenges, simplify platform architecture, and improve delivery speed and quality. - Advance AI-assisted engineering: Integrate coding agents, AI-assisted code reviews, automated testing, debugging, and operational automation into the software development lifecycle. - Drive cross-functional alignment: Collaborate with product managers and engineers across India and Japan to turn ambiguous business and technical challenges into actionable engineering plans. - Mentor technical leaders: Coach senior engineers, strengthen architectural decision-making, and help engineering teams use AI agents effectively while maintaining high standards of software quality and reliability. Requirements - Professional experience: 10–12 years of software engineering experience, including demonstrated leadership of complex backend initiatives spanning multiple teams. - Backend engineering expertise: Strong experience with Go or the ability to become productive in Go quickly, including API design, implementation, and testing. - Distributed systems: Deep knowledge of designing, building, and operating distributed systems in cloud-native environments, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes. - System architecture: Excellent system design, data modeling, production debugging, and architectural decision-making skills. - Production reliability: Experience operating customer-facing systems at approximately 99.