Lead Engineer (Skill based) -Customer Service Development Department,Product Development Division, Rakuten Payment, Inc. (Secondment)
Rakuten2 months ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
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 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.