Sr. Software Engineer

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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 a leading e-commerce company that enhances the way people shop by offering Cash Back, deals and rewards from more than 3,500 merchants. Founded in 1+++, Rakuten has grown to become the go-to shopping destination for consumers, having paid out nearly $2 billion in Cash Back to its 15 million members. The company also operates ShopStyle, a leading fashion discovery destination, and Cartera Commerce, a top rewards platform for airlines and banks. For more information, visit
www.rakuten.com
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Job Summary:
Rakuten is seeking a Sr. Full Stack Engineer with a heavy focus on backend, required expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and React. Design and build scalable solutions, mentor junior developers, and contribute to a dynamic team in Toronto. You will join the international tribe, driving the expansion of Rakuten’s cutting-edge Rewards platform into new markets. You’ll build innovative features that shape the future of rewards and deliver unique value tailored to each market’s needs
Key Responsibilities:
Design and build testable, scalable software solutions by deeply understanding business needs, studying information needs; conferring with stakeholders; studying existing systems flow; following the software; implementing industry best practices
Form strong partnership with product managers and stakeholders in other teams
Break work down into concise deliverables with a focus on iterative product delivery
Document and demonstrate solutions by leveraging charts, layouts, diagrams, documentations, clean design, and code
Mentor junior developers and contribute your experience knowledge to the entire team
Respond to production issues when on-call, conduct independent analysis, and apply sound judgment to restore the system.
Qualifications:
Experience in application development using Java, Spring Boot, JPA
Excellent understanding of OOP design principles (loose coupling, encapsulation, SOLID etc.)
Knowledge of working with OLTP databases like Postgres/MySQL or OLAP databases like Snowflake
Experience in Java build automation tool like Maven or Gradle
Strong skills in TypeScript and JavaScript
Experience with Frontend JavaScript frameworks
- React preferred
Knowledge of version control system like Git
Experience with cloud native application development (AWS, Kubernetes, Serverless etc.)
Experience in designing, implementing different Common Software Architectural Patterns including microservices architecture, event driven architectures
Production-level development using Java, Python, or Golang
Plus - Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
Plus - AWS Technologies - S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM etc.
Plus - Experience with different distributed system building blocks (e.g. Kafka, Redis, Elastic Search, or other similar NoSQL product)
Plus - Experience to refactoring legacy systems
Minimum Requirements:
B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or equivalent experience
4+ years of application development experience
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. Read more