Web Engineer, Rakuten Rebates - EC Marketplace Development Department (ECMPD)

Job Description:

Department Overview

Rebates Development Group is a tech organization under EC Marketplace Development Department (ECMPD). We are responsible for developing and enhancing our online system to support our business, Rakuten Rebates. Rakuten Rebates is a high growth e-commerce service in Japan. Rakuten is a very progressive company providing Rebates with substantial capital, access to great technology, and access to international markets. To learn more about Rebates, visit https://www.rebates.jp.

We are a diverse, very fun and unique team with members from various countries. We're always interested in meeting talented individuals interested in helping us change the way the world shops, so if you're passionate about helping save people money and improving the shopping experience apply below.

This is a full-time position located in Tokyo and you must have excellent Java, Spring, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript skills. You will be responsible for working with various teams and translating marketing and product requirements into functional pages on both Rebates’ desktop and mobile web sites. This ideal candidate must be a highly motivated individual, self-starter with excellent communication and team collaboration skills. A passion for solving business problems and exceeding expectations through the development of leading edge, disruptive technologies are extremely desired.

As we're accelerating development to add new features and improve our service, we need more engineer talent to be part of our project and make great contributions together.

Position Details

We are looking for a passionate and innovative engineer who can bring fresh ideas, lead the development and operation with getting the peers involved proactively, to join us together in delivering best shopping experiences with high speed and time-to-market. 

- To understand business requirements, and deliver features with high quality and speed

- To design, development, test, and operate e-commerce system

- To perform maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting and bug-fix (24/7)

- To perform system improvement (i.e. refactoring, adopting appropriate technologies and system architecture, and optimizing the system performance with a sufficient load test)

Mandatory Qualifications: 

- Good experience in CI/CD automation of service delivery (using Jenkins/git, etc.) as DevOps

- Good experience in both Waterfall and Agile practice, and understand the spirit behind them

- Good experience in traffic management by using CDN and caching systems

- Experience in developing GraphQL / JSON RPC / gRPC server implementations

- Team leading experience (5~6 people) to achieve targets on schedule under high pressure

- Operate middle ware, such as Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Weblogic and other open source framework

- Experience in supervision of software contents management (Git, Maven, and Gradle)

- Experience in utilizing GNU utility on Linux distribution to take further investigation

- Experience in Architecture Design by taking lots of system characteristics

- Try to tackle proactively against highly challenging issues and manage to get things done

- Can convince all stakeholders with choosing the best technical option with long-term and panoramic vision

- 3+ years experience in Spring Framework

- 3+ years of experience in front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)

- Experience using React

- Deep understanding of or strong interest in front-end technical specifications

Desired Qualifications:

- Over 4 years' experience in designing and developing RESTful API and Micro service architecture as a whole

- Proven hands-on Software Development experience in designing and developing applications using Java / Java EE platforms (JVM mechanism such as class loading, memory management, and gc tuning)

- Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns (Gof, SOLID principles, and functional programing)

- Experience in maintaining unit-testing suite at state-of-art level

- Experience to host Java application server (Tomcat, WebLogic / Jetty / Undertow, etc.) and configure it for production use

- Improve with the people around you with accepting given legacy system and rules

- Ability to try to pursue an issue meticulously and to take care in not missing details

- Ability to not be fixated on ideal solutions from a technical perspective and come up with a realistic idea to meet business requirements

- Knowledge and experience with page speed improvement

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Languages:

English (Overall - 3 - Advanced)