About the position
Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment, and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company's mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork. Rakuten Rewards is seeking a Software Engineer passionate about solving complex technical challenges to support our rapidly growing engineering team. This role presents an exciting opportunity to work on innovative products and services that enhance our user and partner experiences. As a Software Engineer, you'll be instrumental in building and maintaining mission-critical systems that power our platform, while developing new solutions to drive business growth and user engagement.
Responsibilities
- Design and build testable, scalable software solutions by deeply understanding business needs, studying information needs; conferring with stakeholders; studying existing systems flow; following the software; implementing industry best practices.
- Form strong partnership with product managers and stakeholders in other teams.
- Break work down into concise deliverables with a focus on iterative product delivery.
- Document and demonstrate solutions by leveraging charts, layouts, diagrams, documentations, clean design and code.
- Exercise independent judgment and creative problem-solving techniques in a highly complex environment using leading-edge technology.
- Respond to production issues when on-call, conduct independent analysis, and apply sound judgment to restore the system.
Requirements
- Excellent understanding of OOP design principles (loose coupling, encapsulation, SOLID etc.)
- Experience in application development using Java, Spring Boot, JPA
- Knowledge of working with OLTP databases like Postgres/MySQL or OLAP databases like Snowflake
- Experience in Java build automation tool like Maven or Gradle
- Knowledge of version control system like Git
- Experience with cloud native application development (Kubernetes, Serverless etc.)
- Experience in designing, implementing different Common Software Architectural Patterns including microservices architecture, event driven architectures
- Strong requirement gathering, analysis and collaboration skills
- B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of application development experience
- Strong communication and presentation skill
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
- AWS Technologies - S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM etc.
- Experience with different distributed system building blocks(e.g. Kafka, Redis, Elastic Search, or other similar NoSQL product)
- Experience to refactoring legacy systems
- Experience with prompt engineering and optimizing LLM prompts for specific tasks to improve performance and accuracy.
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401k matching
- PTO
- Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
- Other employee benefits as the company implements
