Job Description:

Rakuten Group, Inc. is the largest e-commerce company in Japan, and third largest e-commerce marketplace company worldwide, with over 1.5 billion registered users worldwide. The Rakuten brand is recognized worldwide for its leadership and innovation, and provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports.  The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas.

Rakuten Viki is a premier global entertainment streaming site where millions of people discover and consume primetime shows and movies subtitled in more than 200 languages, by our community of fans. With billions of videos viewed and more than 1 billion words translated, Viki brings global entertainment to fans everywhere!

About the Product Services Group: The Product Services group comprises multiple backend engineering teams that develop and maintain services powering Viki's API and business workflows. We handle everything from Viki's content API, Identity & communication subsystems, Monetization & subscriptions, Content ingestion, publishing and management systems, and many other backend components critical to a video streaming platform. As we move towards enhancing personalized user experiences, we are forming a new team dedicated to improving the integration between our frontend and backend systems. This team will serve as a bridge between the frontend and backend, collaborating closely with both backend and frontend engineering teams to create a UI-focused API layer. The aim is to provide our users with faster, more tailored, and seamless experiences.

Position Overview: As we prepare our backend for massive business growth, we are in search of an experienced Senior Software Engineer (Backend Development) to join our new team. The ideal candidate will share a passion for tackling complexity and building platforms that can scale, with a specific focus on enhancing the integration between frontend and backend systems.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Design, implement, and operate scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs, capable of handling large-scale traffic and critical to a video streaming platform.

• Manage the complex challenges of scale, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.

• Write production-quality code in TypeScript, Go, Ruby, and JavaScript.

• Collaborate closely with frontend engineering and product teams to design and build UI-focused APIs that enhance user experiences.

• Take ownership of features and systems and elevate them while working with stakeholders around you.

• Think out of the box, experiment with the latest technologies and explore their limits. 

• Drive software engineering best practices

Requirements:

• 5-8 years of experience in developing and operating systems with high-scale distributed systems.

• Ability to chew through difficult technical problems and gain insights from them.

• Strong foundation in understanding practical operating system concepts around Linux/Unix and a grasp of basic networking.

• Familiarity with Typescript, Go/Golang, Node.js, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, PostgreSQL (MySQL), RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS, and GCP are desirable, but you should have the knack for learning whatever languages and technologies come your way.

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

• Experience in building and integrating APIs for frontend applications like Web, mobile and connected TVs is highly desirable.

• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with frontend engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous full-stack development experience, demonstrating a strong understanding of both frontend and backend technologies and their integration.

• Passionate about building API and business logic for user-facing application clients.

• Experience with Backend for Frontend (BFF) architecture or similar patterns. 

Why Join Us:

• Be part of a dynamic and innovative team that is shaping the future of video streaming.

• Work in a collaborative environment where your contributions will have a significant impact.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

If you are passionate about backend engineering and excited about the opportunity to work on enhancing the integration between frontend and backend systems, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team and help us build the future of video streaming!

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.