2 months ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define long-term system strategies and technology roadmaps with stakeholders.
- Translate business problems and software specifications into high-level technical architectures and solid designs.
- Improve application performance and scalability while satisfying non-functional requirements.
- Standardize technical solutions, development processes, and coding rules.
- Manage technical risks to support stable system operation.
- Review system designs and source code and contribute to team capability improvement.
- Communicate with key stakeholders and provide technical leadership.
Requirements
- 15 or more years of Web-layer and Java architecture design and implementation experience.
- At least 5 years of advanced application design and development experience involving non-functional requirements.
- At least 5 years of experience as a senior system design and source-code reviewer.
- At least 5 years of experience serving as a lead engineer.
- Strong negotiation, communication, logical-thinking, flexibility, multitasking, initiative, curiosity, self-learning, and motivation skills.
- Preferred: team-leading or group-management experience.
- Preferred: development-process design or standardization experience.
- Preferred: experience selecting, adopting, introducing, and practically applying system architectures.
- Preferred: experience planning and realizing next-generation system architectures.
- Preferred: experience creating engineering recruitment plans and branding, recruiting, and training engineers.
Benefits
- Full-time position hired by Rakuten Group, Inc. and seconded to Rakuten Bank, Ltd.
- Work location: NBF Shinagawa Tower.
- Employee benefits are referenced through Rakuten Group’s employment conditions.
- Japanese language proficiency: fluent overall level.
About Rakuten
Rakuten Group builds e-commerce marketplaces, financial services (credit cards, payments, banking, securities), and digital/communications offerings for consumers and merchants worldwide. It monetizes through transaction fees, financial services income, advertising, and mobile subscriptions; flagship businesses include Rakuten Ichiba, Rakuten Card, and Rakuten Mobile. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Setagaya, Tokyo, the company is publicly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and operates across many countries and regions.