Rakuten Careers

Rakuten, Inc. is the largest ecommerce company in Japan, and third largest ecommerce marketplace company worldwide.
Rakuten provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including Internet/e commerce, Banking, securities, credit card, Payment, Healthcare, Medical, Mobile,5G Network, Food Delivery, emoney, e-reading portal and media, travel online marketing and professional sports. Founded in 1997. Headquartered in Tokyo.
Today, our 70+ businesses span e-commerce, digital content, communications and Fintech, bringing the joy of discovery to more than 1 billion members across the world.
• Rakuten operates globally in more than 30 countries with presence in Asia, Europe, and Americas
• Ranked among the worlds (Top 20 Most Innovative Companies $B!G(B in Forbes Magazine$B!G(Bs
annual list & the # 1 Innovative company in Japan
• Football Club Barcelona signed sponsorship deal with Rakuten
• Viber, a Global Mobile Messaging App which has 800 million registered users belongs to Rakuten Inc.

Official Website: http://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/
Global Website: http://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/philosophy/" target="_blank">http://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/philosophy/

Job Description
Experience: 6 to 9 years

Must-have skills:
Logical and Problem solving skills,
Experience with:
Development and design on PHP 7+ version,any of PHP Framework (preferably Laravel or CakePHP)
Object Oriented Programming with excellent understanding of Design patterns.Rest APIs.
MySQL & excellent DB design knowledge/skills,HTML/CSS, Core JavaScript/Jquery
Docker (and/or its concepts such as Containerisation, Container Orchestration)
GIT or any version control systems
Good Verbal and Written communication skills.
Redis / Cache system design etc.
Good to have skills
Experience with Data Structures and Algorithm
Experience with Web servers such as Apache/Nginx,
Linux based operating system, jenkins
Knowledge of Test Driven Development
Experience with API Driven architecture Java
Cache system such as Memcached/Redis
Elastic Search engine such as Kibana/ Graylog
Job scheduling / Messaging queue.
Agile software methodologies such as Scrum

Rakuten, Inc. is the largest ecommerce company in Japan, and third largest ecommerce marketplace
company worldwide.
• Rakuten provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including Internet/e-commerce, Banking, securities, credit card, Healthcare, Medical, Mobile,5G
Network, Food Delivery, e-money, e-reading portal and media, travel online marketing and professional sports. Founded in 1997. Headquartered in Tokyo.
Today, our 70+ businesses span e-commerce, digital content, communications and Fintech.
• Rakuten operates globally in more than 30 countries with presence in Asia, Europe, and Americas
• Ranked among the worlds (Top 20 Most Innovative Companies $B!G(B in Forbes Magazine$B!G(Bs annual list & the # 1 Innovative company in Japan
• Football Club Barcelona signed sponsorship deal with Rakuten • Viber, a Global Mobile Messaging
App which has 800 million registered users belongs to Rakuten Inc.
Official Website: http://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/
http://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/philosophy" target="_blank">http://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/philosophy

Job Title: Software Engineers - Python
Key responsibilities include:
• Technical design and development
• Able to work with remote development unit
• Responsible for delivering Business requirements with high quality
• Unit Testing each deliverables to ensure the quality of development
Expertise:
1. We are looking for someone with strong exposure to back-end web stacks and front-end
is an added advantage
2. Minimum 3 - 5 years of experience in software product development
3. Expert in Python and frameworks such as Django/Flask/Pyramid
4. Experience in HTML5, CSS3, AngularJS, ReactJS and other web technologies is an added
advantage
5. Knowledge and understanding of Unix and networking
6. Basic level understanding of any one of the cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) is an added
advantage
7. Basic level understanding in Docker concepts
8. Knowledge of Build and Release concepts including Continuous integration and
deployment
9. Experience with Agile software development methodology and working with distributed
development teams
10. Good in written and verbal communication skills
11. Breakdown complex/large fuzzy problems into logical pieces and implement the most
optimal solution

(Sr) Engineering Manager
About Rakuten
Rakuten, Inc. is one of the world’s leading Internet service companies, providing a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal & media, online marketing and professional sports. Rakuten is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas. Founded in 1997, Rakuten is headquartered in Tokyo, with over 20,000 employees worldwide.
For more information, visit http://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/.
If you are:
 A leader with vision, loves pushing boundaries, questioning status-quo and thrives on challenging problems.
 Passionate technologist, not afraid of scale, complexity and breadth
 Loves to create a high-performance culture that exceeds expectations, deliver value and create impact
 Detailed oriented individual, who understands nuances of technologies choices and drives best fit solutions.
We’d like to meet you! Expertise:
 Expert in Distributed Systems and Cloud technologies
 12+ years’ experience, with at least 2-3 years as Engineering Manager / Lead
 Hands-on with Java ecosystem, web services architecture, design patterns and frameworks
 Experience working with caches, app servers, web containers
 Understanding of datastores, Oracle exadata / no sql based
 Experience with git or likes
 Good understanding of development practices and tools, devops, release engineering and infrastructure management
 Experience working on API based SaaS products
 Experience with SRE, operational architectures, observability aspects
 Deep understanding of Reliability, Availability and Scalability
 Hands on experience with complex project management, agile based preferred
 Comfortable working with a distributed team
Responsibilities:
 Scoping, planning, and technical architecture reviews
 Grow and manage the skills, talent in the organization.
 Mentor and lead team(s)
 Responsible for day-to-day management of Services development team
 Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Operations, and other delivery teams to ensure effective launch and delivery of projects
 Drive automated solutions that enable better efficiency and process improvement

Role : SRE

Experience : 4 - 8 Years

 

• Experience in building, deploying and operating cloud solutions on Kubernetes
• Strong expertise administrating and scaling Kubernetes on bare metal and CKA preferred
• Expertise on K8s Interfaces CNI, CSI, CRI and Service meshe
• Hands-on experience as a DevOps or Automation development
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux operating system internals, filesystems, disk/storage technologies and storage protocols.
• Experience working with Helm Charts and building out Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
• Experience in writing software to automate orchestration tasks at scale; we commonly use Python, Go, and Shell scripting
• Knowledge of systems (Linux, GNU tooling), networking (OSI model, DNS, routing) and virtualization vs containerization
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling for cloud-based applications specifically Terraform / CloudFormation, Jenkins and Git
• Architected CNF Orchestration with Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of the principles of 12-factor apps and modern containerized microservices
• Plan for reliability by designing systems to work across our multi-region and multi-cloud environments
• Experience developing and using Application & Integration stacks/tools such as Kafka, Spring Cloud, Apache Camel, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Knative, and NoSQL

Responsibilities:          

• Designing and developing user interfaces using AngularJS/Angular best practices.
• Adapting interface for modern internet applications using the latest front-end technologies.
• Writing JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
• Developing product analysis tasks.
• Making complex technical and design decisions for AngularJS/Angular projects.
• Developing application codes and unit tests in AngularJS, Angular, Micro-frontend architecture, and Rest Web Services.
• Conducting performance tests.
• Consulting with the design team.
• Ensuring high performance of applications and providing support.

 

Qualifications   

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related background
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

Required Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years’ experience with JavaScript (Particularly ES6), Typescript, CSS, HTML.
• 2+ years’ experience with Angular v9 or greater.
• Experience using JavaScript building tools like Grunt and Webpack.
• Client-side unit testing via Jest or similar testing library a plus
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs is strongly desired
• Experience working in agile project management methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, FDD)
• Excellent communication skills.
• Critical thinker and good problem-solver.

Possible nice-to-haves: Micro-frontend architecture knowledge, NodeJS, Microservices architecture understanding, test-driven development

Company Overview:

Rakuten, Inc. (TSE's first section: 4755) is the largest ecommerce company in Japan, and third largest eCommerce marketplace company worldwide. Rakuten provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas. Founded in 1997, Rakuten is headquartered in Tokyo, with over 17,000 employees and partner staff worldwide. Rakuten's 2018 revenues were 1101.48 billions yen. 　 -In Japanese, Rakuten stands for ‘optimism.’ -It means we believe in the future. -It’s an understanding that, with the right mind-set, -we can make the future better by what we do today. Today, our 70+ businesses span e-commerce, digital content, communications and FinTech, bringing the joy of discovery to more than 1.2 billion members across the world.

Website : https://www.rakuten.com/

Crunchbase : Rakuten has raised a total of $42.4M in funding over 2 rounds

Companysize : 10,001 + Employees

Founded : 1997

Headquarters : Tokyo, Japan

Work location : Bangalore (M.G.Road)

Please find below Job Description.

Role Description – Data Engineer for AN group (Location - India)

 

Key responsibilities include:

 

We are looking for engineering candidate in our Autonomous Networking Team. The ideal candidate must have following abilities –

 

• Hands- on experience in big data computation technologies (at least one and potentially several of the following: Spark and Spark Streaming, Hadoop, Storm, Kafka Streaming, Flink, etc)
• Familiar with other related big data technologies, such as big data storage technologies (e.g., Phoenix/HBase, Redshift, Presto/Athena, Hive, Spark SQL, BigTable, BigQuery, Clickhouse, etc), messaging layer (Kafka, Kinesis, etc), Cloud and container- based deployments (Docker, Kubernetes etc), Scala, Akka, SocketIO, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Redis, Couchbase, JAVA, Go lang.
• Partner with product management and delivery teams to align and prioritize current and future new product development initiatives in support of our business objectives
• Work with cross functional engineering teams including QA, Platform Delivery and DevOps
• Evaluate current state solutions to identify areas to improve standards, simplify, and enhance functionality and/or transition to effective solutions to improve supportability and time to market
• Not afraid of refactoring existing system and guiding the team about same.
• Experience with Event driven Architecture, Complex Event Processing
• Extensive experience building and owning large- scale distributed backend systems.