Backend Engineer, Rakuten Pay – Rakuten Payment, Inc.

Job Description:

Business Overview

Mission:
Rakuten Group's basic management philosophy is to "empower people and society through innovation”. We provide more than 70 diverse services, including EC services such as shopping malls and travel booking sites, financial services such as online banking, and media services and professional sports, to more than 100 million customers in Japan alone (more than 1 billion globally), covering a wide range of people's life scenes. At the same time, we are building a strong business model based on the "Rakuten Ecosystem" that organically links customers and various services.

As a member of the Rakuten Group's FinTech Group Company, we at Rakuten Payment, Inc. are developing businesses centered on settlement services such as Rakuten Pay, Rakuten Edy, and Point Partner Business, as well as marketing solutions.

"With the power of technology, we aim to create a world where anyone can enjoy the same value no matter where they are."

As the digital sphere of society rapidly expands, we want to connect the Internet and the real world more seamlessly, so that everyone can use technology to lead a safe, secure, and more comfortable daily life. In order to achieve such a society, we would like to face the various problems that people are facing and move forward together to the next stage.

Department Overview

Features and Strengths:

With the strength of the Rakuten Point market, which has surpassed 3 trillion yen in total issuance, we are building the "Rakuten Economic Circle" through service collaboration with Rakuten Group companies and the introduction of cashless settlement services in real stores, which are growing at an accelerated pace. Our settlement services can be used at approximately 5 million online and offline locations, including supermarkets, convenience stores, and shopping malls nationwide, as well as at approximately 1 million locations where traffic-related e-money can be used, and the number of locations where this service can be used is continuing to expand.

This System Division handles everything from system service planning related to payment services, planning and implementation related to UI/UX, basic and detailed system design, coding, testing, and operation. As the service expands, you will be able to experience the planning, development, and operation of a very large-scale system. In addition, you will be able to improve our services by directly listening to the voices of our customers.

Why We Hire

The scale of our business is greatly expanding in line with the expansion of cashless operations. We are looking for people who can create the future together.

　

Position Details

Rakuten Pay Backend Development: Consistently responsible for system design, requirements definition, basic design, environmental design, implementation, testing and launch

• Design and development of business logic such as APIs and batch processing

• Design and development of business flow/ business operation tools, etc.

• System maintenance and operation of Rakuten Pay

Leading the engineering team

• Communicate with Rakuten's numerous platforms and infrastructures

• Discuss technical guidelines, technical reviews, and Coach/Train junior engineers (As an engineer leader)

• Promote discovering issues and improvement activities

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Java development experience (3 + years)

• Experience in designing and implementing open systems (3 + years)

• Knowledge and experience of database and system infrastructure

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in developing and operating mission-critical systems

• Experience in developing and operating consumer services

• Experience in developing large-scale, high-capacity systems

• Motivation and challenging spirit to new services and cutting-edge technologies

• Knowledge of payment system and point system

• Knowledge and experience in microservices architecture　

Additional information on Location

NBF Shinagawa Tower

　

Additional information on Secondment

This position will be hired by Rakuten Group, Inc. and seconded to Rakuten Payment, Inc.

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Languages:

English (Overall - 3 - Advanced)