Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Rakuten is a leading global e-commerce company. Our mission is to contribute to society by creating value through innovation and entrepreneurshipAt Rakuten, we drive disruptive innovation, engaging knowledge, creativity and passion from around the world to achieve ambitious goals and help build communities in which people can pursue their dreams and live in happiness.

About the Team

APS boasts a highly motivated, skilled, talented, and friendly team spread across Tokyo, Singapore, India, and China. We are looking for someone who can quickly integrate and collaborate effectively with our team.

We are seeking a dynamic Senior Software engineer to take on technical ownership and responsibilities throughout the product and project development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to solve a wide range of technical and business challenges. We are looking for a tech-savvy individual who is unafraid to step out of their comfort zone and explore new technologies.

This role offers the opportunity to build a robust tech career by developing multiple products within Rakuten's expansive ecosystem and innovative technology cluster.

Roles and Responsibilities

Project ExecutionRequirement gathering and analysisConvert business requirement to tech requirement

System designCoding and implementationCode review and maintain code quality/standardUnit testing, verification, validationDeployment/Rollback operation for DEV, STG, PRODAfter-release monitoring, regular maintenance

CollaborationWorking closely with the project manager, tech lead, architect and other project membersCollaborate with a separate QA team and DevOps team.Collaborate with cross-culture, cross-border development team during the project execution

Always Improve, Always AdvanceUnderstand the whole product and system and suggest the technical improvementsUnderstand the future business and product needs and suggest system improvement in advance.Think one step ahead, verify up-coming technology and prepare roadmaps to utilize those

Qualifications

5+ years of hands-on software development experience as a Software EngineerStrong technical design and implementation skillStrong analytical and problem-solving skillComplete and hands-on experience of Agile development and SCRUMTeam player and easy going personProactive, self-starter and self-motivatedPerform under immense pressureGood communication skills with tech/non-tech peopleStrong get-things-done mind with a sense of ownershipExperience using AI tool like Cursor to improve the code quality and productivity.

Technical - Must haveJava spring (boot+batch)MySQLNoSQL (MongoDB)GCS,Big Query, Data ProcKafkaVersion Control - GitJira or similar project and task management tool

Good To haveBig Data (Hadoop, Hive, Spark)REACT, ANGULARNoSQL (Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis)Big Data (Tez, Presto)Test Automation JUnitCode Quality - SonarStreaming platform - Kafka, RabittMQCI/CD - JenkinsBI Tool - MicroStrategy, TableauThe experience about enterprise system architecture design such as data pipeline design

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