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 a leading e-commerce company that enhances the way people shop by offering Cash Back, deals and rewards from more than 3,500 merchants. Founded in 1999, Rakuten has grown to become the go-to shopping destination for consumers, having paid out nearly $2 billion in Cash Back to its 15 million members. The company also operates ShopStyle, a leading fashion discovery destination, and Cartera Commerce, a top rewards platform for airlines and banks. For more information, visit www.rakuten.com. Rakuten Rewards is looking for a Senior Software Engineer that is motivated to tackle complex technical problems to for our quickly expanding engineering team. Our CHW team in the San Mateo Office oversees creating the software that millions of members use. As a member of the Rakuten Rewards team, you will enjoy the benefits of both worlds: the quick expansion and agility of a startup combined with the size and profitability of a huge international corporation. We are currently starting to build a transparency team with a long-term perspective. This is an excellent time to join and progress by contributing to a team that will build a solid basis for the platform's future iterations. In addition to the exciting new platform, this team is responsible of maintaining a number of key services that keep improving the capabilities of Rakuten Rewards to provide user customization and relevance to meet the demands of both members and our merchant partners. We work hard to provide the greatest technology to meet our company's needs.
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
- Mentor junior developers and contribute your experience & knowledge to the entire team
- 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 (AWS, 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
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
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401k matching
- PTO
- Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
- Other employee benefits as the company implements
