Job Description:

Here at Rakuten Kobo Inc. we offer a casual working start-up environment and a group of friendly and talented individuals. Our employees rank us highly in terms of commitment to work/life balance. We realize that for our people to be innovative, creative and passionate they need to feel valued and supported. We believe in rewarding all our employees with competitive salaries, performance based annual bonuses, stock options and training opportunities.

If you’re looking for a company that inspires passion, personal, and professional growth – join Kobo and come help us on our mission of making reading lives better.

The Role:
Rakuten Kobo Ireland is looking for a Team Lead, Software Engineering to join our amazing Web team!

As a Team Lead, you will have the exciting opportunity to lead talented web development teams, driving the delivery of innovative features that delight readers around the world.

Reporting to the Software Engineering Manager, you will play a key role in guiding your teams through all aspects of the development lifecycle - from requirements gathering and solution design to implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring.

Our engineers are enthusiastic problem-solvers who work across the full development spectrum, taking full ownership of their work. As a leader, you will foster a collaborative and high-performing environment across teams, empowering them to deliver exceptional results while ensuring the quality, scalability, and reliability of the solutions we provide to our customers. If you share our passion for building great software and take pride in delivering impactful work, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Owners, UX Designers and other teams to align on
• requirements and priorities.
• Propose designs and Proof of Concepts to Architecture team and work with the team to
• deliver the implementation to Production.
• Drive the planning and execution of development tasks, ensuring timely delivery of
• scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Guide and mentor software engineers across multiple teams, fostering growth and
• ensuring high-quality deliverables.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with team mates, Business stakeholders and other
• development teams in Kobo.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment, encouraging open
• communication and continuous improvement.

The Skillset:
Required:

• Computer Science or Computer Engineering Degree (or equivalent experience)
• Past Scrum Master or Team Lead experience
• Highly technical and able to communicate well with engineers and cross-functional team
• members
• C#, ASP.NET MVC, WebAPI, RESTful Services, .Net 8 Microservices
• Strong SQL/NoSql understanding and skills.
• SOLID Principles and Practices, IoC & TDD
• Some experience with service bus technology e.g. NServiceBus, RabbitMQ
• Some experience with modern JavaScript and CSS frameworks
• Experienced and knowledgeable in CI/CD and different testing strategies and techniques
• (Unit, Integration, UI tests)
• Comfortable with and enthusiastic about learning new technologies

Nice to Haves:

• Working in an Agile environment and team
• Docker, Solr, Kubernetes
• RavenDb, EntityFramework
• Experience with Git
• Experience with OAuth & Open ID
• Test automation using Selenium Webdriver or Playwright
• Working with GitHub or Azure DevOps
• Knowledge of Ruby or other scripting languages
• Experience or knowledge of Github Copilot
• Experience with Helm and Argo for deploying applications

The Perks:

• Flexible hours and remote working environment
• 4 extra long weekends around bank holiday weekends
• Full benefits starting from your first day
• Paid Volunteer days, unlimited sick days
• Monthly commuting allowance and internet allowance
• Flexible spending account
• Talent and development training budget
• Free Kobo device + free weekly e-book or audiobook
• Weekly Kobo Tech University sessions
• Maternity/paternity leave top up

About Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Owned by Tokyo-based Rakuten and headquartered in Toronto, Rakuten Kobo Inc. is one of the most advanced global ecommerce companies, with the world’s most innovative e-reading services offering more than 6 million eBooks and audiobooks to 30 million + customers in 190 countries. Kobo delivers the best digital reading experience through creative innovation, award-winning e-readers, and top-ranking mobile apps. Kobo is a part of the Rakuten group of companies.
Rakuten Kobo Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Accessibility accommodations for candidates with disabilities participating in the selection process are available on request. Any information received related to accommodation needs of applicants will be addressed confidentially.

Rakuten Kobo would like to thank all applicants for their interest in this role however only qualified candidates will be shortlisted.

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