Job Description:

Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company’s mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.

Cartera Commerce, a Rakuten company who is the pioneer and leader in online cash back shopping and a subsidiary of the global Internet services company, is looking for experienced, talented and passionate individuals to join our growing team. Cartera Commerce’s loyalty solutions serves major airlines to top banks, we partner with elite companies who use loyalty programs to reward their customers. We help those customers earn more rewards by shopping with over 1,000 online retailers. If you want to join a dynamic team please apply. Cartera Commerce is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

SUMMARY:

Cartera’s Back Office team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer.

Cartera partners with major airlines and banks to provide loyalty programs to reward their customers. Cartera’s Back Office team provides data processing applications for Cartera’s platform using a variety of Java based technologies.

This software development position requires versatility, flexibility, and attention to detail. It includes the design, development, and support of both new and existing platform features, as well as working closely with the Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to ensure delivery of quality software.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Software Engineer will have the following responsibilities:

• Design and implement high performance data processing, analytics and feed processing applications.
• Work closely with Product and Dev Managers to define and refine the product requirements.
• Work closely with Operations teams towards production monitoring and support activities on existing and new applications.
• Develop supporting integration and unit tests and collaborate with QA teams to ensure proper test coverage.
• Contribute towards product releases, sprint planning, and code reviews in a dynamic engineering environment.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)

• Experience in working with complex data sets.
• Experience building REST APIs.
• Experience with middleware technologies like RabbitMQ, Kafka, Apache Camel, Mule, Spring, or Java EE.
• Experience working on Linux.
• Familiar with source code control management systems, including branching and merging of code.
• Strong foundational computer science skills, such as OS, networking, databases, REST.
• Strong understanding of and experience with all stages of software development lifecycle.
• Excellent interpersonal, listening, written, and verbal skills.
• Strong attention to detail, ability to multi-task, prioritize, and problem solve.
• Solid organizational and analytical skills.
• Technical leadership experience.

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

• Experience working with financial data processing systems.
• Experience working in Amazon AWS.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Experience with Maven and Ant build processes and continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins).
• Experience with scripting languages like Python or PHP is a plus.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• 7+ years of relevant experience in the design, development, documentation, and deployment of high performance, high availability applications using Java and Spring.
• 4+ years of experience designing applications and schemas utilizing relational databases such as MySQL.
• Minimum of BS/MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.          

Five Principles for Success
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

Always improve, Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen
Passionately Professional - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
Hypothesize - Practice - Validate – Shikumika - Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team

Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.