Job Description

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Business Overview

Rakuten is one of the leading e-commerce companies in the world. Our mission is to empower people and society through the internet while aiming at becoming the Global Innovation Company.

Department Overview

The advertising business is one of four focus areas of Rakuten. Our mission is to increase profit for all Rakuten, by providing high quality marketing services, as a CoE of Ad technology and Ad platform provider. We are always developing and enhancing comprehensive ad platforms, which enables our clients to fully utilize Rakuten's assets as much as possible.

We have a highly motivated, skilled, talented, and approachable team distributed across Tokyo, Singapore, India, and China.
Position:

Why We Hire

We are seeking a highly skilled and dynamic full-stack engineer with extensive technical expertise to take the ownership of technical responsibilities throughout the entire product development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will excel at solving diverse technical and business challenges while working with other engineers in the team.

This role provides an exciting opportunity to advance your tech career by contributing to the development of multiple products within Rakuten's extensive ecosystem and cutting-edge technology landscape.
Position Details

Project Execution

Analyze project requirements to ensure a clear understanding of the scope Translate the project requirements into technical specifications Design and implement scalable and efficient features utilizing AI tools Perform unit testing, verification, and validation to ensure robust functionality Conduct peer code reviews to maintain high code quality and adherence to standards Monitor systems post-release, perform regular maintenance, and address any issues proactively

Collaboration

Work closely with engineers, technical leads, product managers, project managers, and cross-functional teams to design and develop exceptional features Collaborate with a separate QA team and DevOps team Collaborate with cross-culture, cross-border development team during the project execution

Always Improve, Always Advance

Develop a deep understanding of the entire product and system to identify and recommend technical enhancements Anticipate future business and product requirements, proactively suggesting system improvements to stay ahead of evolving needs Stay ahead of the curve by exploring emerging technologies, evaluating their potential, and creating roadmaps to integrate them effectively
Mandatory Qualifications:

Experience working as a Software Engineer in software development, demonstrating strong analytical and problem-solving skills Hands-on experience in designing and developing large-scale web applications using technologies such as Java, Spring, MariaDB, MongoDB, Kafka, and React.js Comprehensive, hands-on experience with Agile development methodologies and Scrum practices Proactive, self-driven, and highly motivated individual Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders A team player with a positive and approachable attitude Strong "get-things-done" mindset paired with a sense of ownership and accountability
Technical Know-how:

Java spring (boot+batch) HTML, CSS, JavaScript MySQL/MariaDB NoSQL (MongoDB) Big Data (Hadoop, Hive, Spark)

- Version Control - Git

Jira or similar project and task management tool
Desired Qualifications:

React, Angular JS NoSQL (Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis) Big Data (Tez, Presto)

- Test Automation - JUnit

- Code Quality - Sonar

- Streaming platform - Kafka, RabitMQ

- CI/CD - Jenkins

- BI Tool - MicroStrategy, Tableau

Experience with enterprise system architecture design such as data pipeline design * Domain knowledge of advertisement system architecture and KPIs