Frontend Engineering Manager - Travel Development Department (TDD)

Job Description:

Department Overview

Rakuten Travel is a leading online travel service in Japan, dedicated to “Making People Happy with Travel”.https://travel.rakuten.com/

Since our founding in 1996, we have consistently led the industry, challenging the norms and fostering innovation. With growing aspirations to expand beyond borders as a Global Innovation Company, we are not confined to Japan but continue to strive daily to become the world's premier travel reservation service.

At the forefront of the Commerce & Marketing Company, Travel Development Department (TDD) is distinctive for overseeing the entire spectrum of Rakuten Travel's development and operations. We primarily focus on the following key areas.

- Globalization of Rakuten Travel to compete in global markets

- Continuous improvement and strengthening Rakuten Travel’s presence in Japan to increase customer satisfaction

We are seeking like-minded individuals who resonate with our purpose. Join us at Rakuten Travel, propose new forms of travel to people around the world, and strive to be pioneers shaping the future of travel.

Your passion and creativity will breathe new life into the travel industry, filled with infinite possibilities. We eagerly await your application and potentially invite you to take on challenges in a diverse environment in collaboration with new peers.

Position:

Why We Hire

Travel Development Department (TDD) works on 2 major projects to be competitive in the global market.

- Continuous improvements on existing platform to maximize revenue and provide stability to over 100 million users

- Renewal of existing platform to create a global scale platform

We are looking for a Frontend Engineering Manager that can drive either of these projects, working alongside other similar driven Engineering Managers in a diverse environment.

If you enjoy working on high traffic and large-scale systems, we look forward to hearing from you.

Position Details

As an Engineering Manager for Frontend, you’re expected to

- Manage a group of multiple teams, upwards to 20 people in a group

- Derive Group level KPIs from Department strategies, create action plans and execute

- Mentoring and growing future leaders and engineers of the organization through 1 on 1s and other HR tools

- Be an Architect for the System in your group, recommending new technology stack, making tradeoffs in architectural decisions

- Be a System Owner, ensuring frameworks and processes are in place to enable stable day to day operations of the system

- Be a Project Manager, ensuring deliverables are completed on time by identifying and mitigating risks in advance

Mandatory Qualifications:

Culture

A shared belief of Rakuten Shugi

Management Experience

Have 3+ years of management experience including

• Recruiting future engineers
• Supporting career growth of engineers through training, goal settings and evaluation
• Motivating and ensuring well-being of engineers to maximize results
• Strong communication skills to work with multiple stakeholders like Product Managers and QA

Technical Skills Experience

Have the technical skills and experience on the following

• In depth knowledge of different Architecture Design patterns like microservice architecture, event driven architecture
• be accountable for maximizing quality/cost, achieving KPIs, production failures, and technical decisions of your team.
• be accountable for task quality through review and process

Development Environment Experience

Have in depth knowledge of travel's technology stack including

• Development:
  <Frontend>
  HTML, CSS, Javascript/Typescript, React, Mobile Applications
  <Common>
   Swagger
• Monitoring: Jennifer, Zipkin, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Grafana

Project Management Experience

Be accountable for assigning tasks to members by clarifying the following input:

• Due date
• Priorities between multiple tasks
• Background and purposes (Why is this task necessary? Who will benefit from this?)
• Expected quality (Minimum requirements to resolve tasks / Which steps require reviews?)

Be accountable for task progress through asking the following questions

• Estimation: e.g. Can you share us expected end date/time?
• Possible impediment: e.g. What are problems, if any?
• Possible support: e.g. What can managers/the other member support, if any?
• Bottleneck: e.g. What do you wait for, if any?

Desired Qualifications:

• Communication in Japanese

• Experience in BtoBtoC and travel industry architecture design
• Development Environment Experience

Have in depth knowledge of travel's technology stack including

• Development:
  <Backend>
  Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Config, Spring Cloud Sleuth, JUnit, Apache Maven, IntelliJ IDEA,
• Middleware: Oracle, Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data, MongoDB, Kafka, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat
• Infrastructure: Private cloud (RIaaS, Kubernetes)

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Languages:

English (Overall - 4 - Fluent)