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.

Rakuten Rewards is looking for an Android engineer to join our rapidly growing engineering team. We’re an international team spanning across 3 continents responsible for building software used by hundreds of millions of users.

Working within a Squad structure, you will collaborate with product, design and engineering teammates to build, and maintain our next generation of Android applications while identifying and fixing application bottlenecks, maintaining the core code, and updating applications published on the App Store.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement our flagship Android app which is used by hundreds of thousands of users every day
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our applications remain cutting-edge.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Proven experience as an app developer.
• Proficiency with Java/Kotlin
• Knowledge of Android design patterns (MVVM, MVP etc.)
• Experience working with other Android developers as part of a team
• Experience with entire product lifecycle duties in an Agile environment
• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs and cloud messaging
• Experience with continuous integration

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience
• 3+ years building native applications for Android devices
• Experience in Jetpack Compose would be a plus.
• Proficient with Git version control

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.