Lead Engineer (Skill based) -Customer Service Development Department,Product Development Division, Rakuten Payment, Inc. (Secondment)
Rakuten6 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Make architecture-level and code-level technical decisions and provide feedback and guidance to engineers.
- Drive technical initiatives and oversee system development, maintenance, and operations.
- Understand and maintain existing systems with team members, then lead future system replacement, renewal, or version upgrades.
- Plan tasks, manage schedules, coordinate with other teams, and lead development and operations using clear documentation and development processes.
- Work with project managers to deliver development within quality, deadline, budget, and scope requirements.
- Collaborate with product managers, business teams, and external vendors to build FinTech systems.
- Lead a multinational development team in the future.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software development experience covering design, release, and operations.
- Ownership of a service or system and experience maintaining the same service or system for more than 3 years.
- Experience leading a team through system renewal or version upgrades.
- Extensive ability in task planning, schedule management, and cross-team coordination.
- In-depth knowledge of RDBMS, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, RESTful APIs, and high availability implementation and maintenance.
- Practical experience designing and developing scalable web applications.
- Experience developing web systems with Java and Spring Boot.
- Experience with Azure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Experience with performance testing and application optimization.
- Experience leading a development team as a tech lead.
Benefits
- Work in a lively, open, cross-cultural environment with approximately 15 company employees and 20 outsourcing members.
- Exposure to new technologies with discretion to consider their implementation across multiple FinTech businesses.
- Career paths include management or specialist/tech lead tracks.
- Location: NBF Shinagawa Tower, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
- Secondment to Rakuten Payment, Inc. while remaining an employee of Rakuten Group, Inc.
- English and Japanese are used approximately 50% each; communication with external vendors is in Japanese.
- Rakuten Group employee benefits are referenced in the employment conditions.
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About Rakuten
Rakuten Group, Inc. (TSE: 4755) is a global technology leader in services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications to 2 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has more than 30,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/.