Senior Web Engineer (Need: React, Spring frame, HTML,CSS)

Tokyo
Partial Remote
Full-time
November 1, 2024

Department Overview

Rebates Development Group is a tech organization under EC Incubation Department (ECID). We are responsible for developing and enhancing our online system to support our business, Rakuten Rebates. Rakuten Rebates is a high growth e-commerce service in Japan. Rakuten is a very progressive company providing Rebates with substantial capital, access to great technology, and access to international markets. To learn more about Rakuten Rebates, Click here.

We are a diverse, very fun and unique team with members from various countries. We're always interested in meeting talented individuals interested in helping us change the way the world shops, so if you're passionate about helping save people money and improving the shopping experience apply below.

This is a full-time position located in Tokyo and you must have excellent Java, Spring, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript skills. You will be responsible for working with various teams and translating marketing and product requirements into functional pages on both Rebates’ desktop and mobile web sites. This ideal candidate must be a highly motivated individual, self-starter with excellent communication and team collaboration skills. A passion for solving business problems and exceeding expectations through the development of leading edge, disruptive technologies are extremely desired.

Why We Hire

As we're accelerating development to add new features and improve our service, we need more engineer talent to be part of our project and make great contributions together.

Position Details

We are looking for a passionate and innovative engineer who can bring fresh ideas, lead the development and operation with getting the peers involved proactively, to join us together in delivering best shopping experiences with high speed and time-to-market. 

To understand business requirements, and deliver features with high quality and speed
To design, development, test, and operate e-commerce system
To perform maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting and bug-fix (24/7)
To perform system improvement (i.e. refactoring, adopting appropriate technologies and system architecture, and optimizing the system performance with a sufficient load test)

Mandatory Qualifications:

5+ years experience in Spring Framework, React
5+ years of experience in front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)
Deep understanding of or strong interest in front-end technical specifications
Good experience in CI/CD automation of service delivery (using Jenkins/git, etc.) as DevOps
Good experience in both Waterfall and Agile practice, and understand the spirit behind them
Good experience in traffic management by using CDN and caching systems
Experience in developing GraphQL / JSON RPC / gRPC server implementations
Team leading experience (5~6 people) to achieve targets on schedule under high pressure
Operate middle ware, such as Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Weblogic and other open source framework
Experience in supervision of software contents management (Git, Maven, and Gradle)
Experience in utilizing GNU utility on Linux distribution to take further investigation
Experience in Architecture Design by taking lots of system characteristics
Try to tackle proactively against highly challenging issues and manage to get things done
Can convince all stakeholders with choosing the best technical option with long-term and panoramic vision

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About Rakuten

In Japanese, Rakuten stands for ‘optimism.’ It means we believe in the future. It’s an understanding that, with the right mind-set, we can make the future better by what we do today.

So we challenge ourselves to evolve, innovate and experiment, to create a better, brighter future for everyone.

Today, our 70+ businesses span e-commerce, digital content, communications and fintech, bringing the joy of discovery to almost 1.3 billion members across the world.