Full-stack Engineer - Analytics Platform Section, Analytics Data Engineering Department (ADED)

Job Description:

Business Overview

Rakuten Analytics Service is a comprehensive analytics platform that provides insights into user behavior, enabling businesses to make data-driven decisions. Our service aggregates online and offline data from various Rakuten Group services and related companies, offering a robust solution for analysis and marketing activities. The platform collects user behavior information, purchase data, and location information in a highly confidential manner, integrating these data sources to build a powerful analytics tool.

Department Overview

The Dashboard Team within the Rakuten Analytics Service is responsible for aggregating billions of events as well as developing and maintaining the API and user interface that allows clients to interact with and visualize their data. We are a cross-functional team that includes full-stack developers, UX/UI designers, QA engineers, and product managers, all working together to deliver the best possible product using SCRUM Agile methodology.

Position:

Why We Hire

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Full-Stack Engineer to join our existing Dashboard Team. Your primary responsibility will be to design, develop, and maintain both UI and API for the frontend dashboard of the Rakuten Analytics Service. If you are passionate about building intuitive and impactful user interfaces and have a proven track record in full-stack development, we would love to hear from you.

Position Details
Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related computer programs. Code may be used in commercial or end-user applications, such as materials management, financial management, HRIS, mobile apps or desktop applications products. Using current programming language and technologies, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications. Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance. May interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.
 

- Develop and maintain CRUD-based features in both UI and API for the Rakuten Analytics Service.

- Utilize BigQuery SQL to analyze and aggregate large datasets.

- Develop and maintain ETL jobs for data marts used by the API.

- Manage and architect cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability and reliability.

- Aim to achieve high standards of security and maintainability in your solutions.

- Participate and take charge in end-to-end development ranging from technical design, implementation, testing, and deployment.

- Monitor, maintain, and operate the production environment and database.

- Contribute to the improvement of the team by proposing development standards and/or practices.

- Engage in team development activities such as project planning, writing technical documentation, code reviews, sprint reviews, etc.

- Collaborate with all project team members (Project Manager, Product Manager, QA Engineer, etc) and stakeholders.

Tech stack

Explore the technologies you will master and utilize in your role:

- Primary Technologies (Frontend): TypeScript, React.js, recharts

- Primary Technologies (Backend): TypeScript, Node.js, Hapi.js

- Database Management: MongoDB

- BigData Management: BigQuery, Druid

- Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Grafana, nginx

- CSS: Tailwindcss

Work Environment

We are a cross-functional group composed of full-stack developers, UX/UI designers, QA engineers, and product managers. Our team works side by side to deliver the best product using SCRUM Agile methodology. We value collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to excellence.

Mandatory Qualifications:

- Extensive experience (8+ years) in web development, with proven work experience as a frontend/backend developer.

- Experience in TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6), and Node.js.

- Experience with modern frontend frameworks/libraries such as React.js.

- Experience with SQL and familiarity with NoSQL.

- Operation of CI/CD build pipelines.

- Knowledge of best practices for web development security and common vulnerabilities.

- Deep understanding of web technologies, including HTML, CSS, REST, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

- Ability to translate product requirements into detailed technical specifications.

- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issues efficiently.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a cross-functional team.

Desired Qualifications:

- Knowledge of QA and SRE practices to ensure the dashboard's functionality, plan infrastructure provisioning, define clear release cycles, and setup effective alerting systems.

- Experience with agile development methodologies.

- Familiarity with data analytics and the principles of data visualization.

- Knowledge of automated testing frameworks and practices.

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