2 days ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Execute the full software development lifecycle from requirements analysis and architectural design through development, quality assurance, deployment, and DevOps/SRE.
- Design, develop, and deploy scalable microservices for the Marketing Cloud Platform.
- Support marketing automation capabilities including campaign management, multichannel communication, personalization, and message delivery.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and distributed engineering teams across multiple countries.
- Coach or mentor team members and potentially contribute to engineering team leadership, project oversight, and cost management.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software development experience with a significant focus on backend systems.
- Proven expertise designing, developing, and deploying scalable microservices architectures.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, Go, or C#.
- Solid understanding of software development best practices, including testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and Git.
- Coaching, mentoring, or team management experience.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and collaborative skills.
- Desired qualifications include data engineering, ETL, data warehousing, large-scale datasets, distributed computing, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, relational and NoSQL databases, public cloud platforms, architectural patterns, engineering leadership, and MarTech experience.
- Fluent English is mandatory; Japanese language ability is beneficial.
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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.