Job Description:

SUMMARY:

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 seeks a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing engineering team. We’re an international team spanning three continents responsible for building software used by millions of users. This role requires a well-rounded engineer who can be self-sufficient and approach opportunities by thinking through the complete end-to-end solution.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implementing server-side logic. This includes developing the logic for database interactions, server-side applications, and data storage solutions.
• Implementing front-end (browser extension) features.
• Responsible for reviewing code from peers, suggesting improvements, and ensuring that the code adheres to the company's quality standards.
• Collaborate with other team members, including front-end developers and product managers, to understand requirements and provide backend solutions.
• Effectively communicate technical details effectively to non-technical team members.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong skills in TypeScript and JavaScript
• Experience with VueJS and/or React frameworks
• Experience working on production-level backend services
• Experience with service-oriented architecture concepts, principles, and patterns
• Experience with AWS platform architecture: EC2, CloudFront, Lambda, API Gateway, Apache Kafka, and S3
• Experience with database technologies and a strong understanding of database schema design
• Experience with event driven architectures
• Familiarity and troubleshooting experience with observability tools like Datadog
• Production-level application development experience using Node.js

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:            

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 2-3+ years relevant work experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:

• Production-level development using Python, Java or Golang
• Worked with automated CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, GitHub Actions

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

At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the base compensation for this role to be within the range shown below. Individual compensation will vary based on job-related factors, including the skills, qualifications, and experience of the successful candidate as well as business need and geographic location. The successful applicant for this role will be eligible for discretionary bonus, health, vision, dental insurance, 401k matching, PTO, Volunteer Time Off (VTO), and other employee benefits as the company implements.

USD $96,442.50 - $163,680.00 annually