Rakuten is a global Internet and e-commerce company with over 1.3 billion registered users worldwide. Our e-commerce platform is the largest of its kind in Japan and among the world's largest by sales. Rakuten has many subsidiaries as well, including well-known brands like Rakuten VIKI, ShopStyle, Curbside, Rakuten TV, Kobo (e-Reading) and Viber (messaging).

As a Software Engineer, you will be working with a talented team to enhance our world-class advertisement management system at Rakuten’s Core Platform Section. You will work in close collaboration with the product management team, UX designers and your scrum team to design and deliver new and innovative customer solutions. The ideal candidate should have a good understanding of UI, cross-browser compatibility, general web functions and standards. Hands-on experience with web applications and programming languages such as, but not limited to, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery and API's is also required.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver software platforms used across multiple products and organizational units.

• Hands on experience with Web Applications and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery and API's.

• A sound understanding of RESTful services, together with the ability to design and implement such services with good scalability and quality

• Utilize TDD practices to ensure delivery of high-quality code with low rates of production defects.

• Bring to bear your experience leveraging best in class tools and technologies (CI/CD, cloud computing, web service development) to refine and improve software development practices for your team.

• Engage in innovative problem-solving activities, requiring conceptual thinking creating 'out of the box' solutions with prototypes and pilots.

• Instrument services and solutions to ensure deployed software is scalable and reliable.

Skills and Experiences:

• Any related degree in Computer Science or related field.

• Strong CS fundamentals in object-oriented design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.

• Experience with distributed systems, caching and persistence solutions would be a plus.

• Ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues under the pressure of time.

• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with strong command of verbal and written English.

• Demonstrated skill and passion for operational excellence.

• Customer–focused mind-set, taking pride in creating an informative data-driven journey.

Experience in the following tech programs:

• HTML5, CSS3, JS, AngularJS, ReactJS

• Core Java 8, Spring 4.0 and above

• MYSQL/Any relational DB experience.

• Mongo DB/any NO SQL experience

• Jenkins

• Maven

• Docker/Spark streaming

• Junit

Rakuten is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.