Job Description:

Business Overview

Mission

Rakuten Group's basic management philosophy is to "empower people and society through innovation." We provide more than 70 diverse services, including EC services such as shopping malls and travel booking sites, financial services such as online banking, and media services and professional sports, to more than 100 million customers in Japan alone (more than 1.6 billion globally), covering a wide range of people's life scenes. At the same time, we are building a strong business model based on the "Rakuten Ecosystem" that organically links customers and various services.

As a member of Rakuten Group's FinTech Group Company, we at Rakuten Payment, Inc. are developing businesses centered on settlement services such as Rakuten Pay, Rakuten Edy, and Point Partner Business, as well as marketing solutions.

"With the power of technology, we aim to create a world where anyone can enjoy the same value no matter where they are."

As the digital sphere of society rapidly expands, we want to connect the Internet and the real world more seamlessly, so that everyone can use technology to lead a safe, secure, and more comfortable daily life. In order to achieve such a society, we would like to face the various problems that people are facing and move forward together to the next stage.

Department Overview

Features and Strengths
With the strength of the Rakuten Point market, which has surpassed 3 trillion yen in total issuance, we are building the "Rakuten Economic Circle" through service collaboration with Rakuten Group companies and the introduction of cashless settlement services in physical stores, which are growing at an accelerated pace. Our settlement services can be used at approximately 5 million online and offline locations, including supermarkets, convenience stores, and shopping malls nationwide, as well as at approximately 1 million locations where traffic-related e-money can be used, and the number of locations where this service can be used is continuing to expand.

About Rakuten Point (Online)

Rakuten Point (Online) (http://pointonline.rakuten.co.jp/service/) is a service that allows users to earn Rakuten Points regardless of their payment method when shopping on e-commerce sites other than Rakuten's own platforms.

As an integral part of the vast Rakuten Point ecosystem, we are committed to ensuring the stable operation and sustained value of this service. Join us in supporting a service that continuously delivers value to our users and partners!

Position:

Why We Hire
For our continued growth, proactive improvements are crucial not only for developing new features but also for the efficient and stable operation of existing systems. Furthermore, due to the nature of our service, we must respond swiftly and accurately to global security standards. Therefore, we are seeking engineers who possess a strong sense of responsibility and can proactively drive initiatives forward

Position Details

You will be assigned as senior developer, and will be in charge of deployment, testing and maintenance to support our goal of security compliance and quick turnaround of new code deployments.

Based on your skill and experience, your assignment will be decided and might be either the development or improvement phase. Since we are continuously improving the development process, we are expecting your experience and innovative ideas to contribute to the improvements process. We are expecting high performance from you.

You will work closely with system architects, engineers, product managers and system administrators to meet stakeholders' needs.

The system you will be in charge of uses technological elements, such as public cloud, Kubernetes, and Docker. Our service is required to meet high security level and quality; you can gain knowledge and experience.

Even though you will be assigned as a senior engineer after you join, it is possible to change your career path (such as a project manager) upon your skill and consultation.

System you will be responsible for:

- Consumer-facing Web Service

- Various API Service for Merchants

- Management Services for Merchants

- Backend Systems

Responsibilities:

- Design and develop system with high confidentiality, availability, and maintainability

- Improvements and maintenance after release

- Conduct necessary review for quality assurance

- Make efforts to find issues, propose, improve for stable service

- Make others better through mentoring and promoting a collaborative team culture

- 24/7/365 technical support

Mandatory Qualifications:

- 5+ years' experience in Java,SpringBoot

- 5+ year experience in SQL

- Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix

- Experience in design document creation and code review (small-scale lead level)

- Experience in team development within a 5-6 person team (e.g., code sharing, version control, ticket management)

- At least one project experience of 1 year or longer within the last 5 years

Desired Qualifications:

- Experience with Apache and Tomcat

- Experience with Spring framework

- Experience with webUI (HTML, CSS, Javascript)

- Experience with CI/CD

- Experience with service operation and building using Elasticsearch

- Development experience using cloud design patterns

- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, etc. for operations and development

- Experience with optimal performance tuning for web applications

- Knowledge of payment/financial

- Ability to judge and suggest based on the situation

- Ability to prepare properly in advance

Other Information:

Additional information on Location

NBF Shinagawa Tower

Additional information on Secondment

This position will be hired by Rakuten Group, Inc. and seconded to Rakuten Payment, Inc.

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Languages:

English (Overall - 2 - Intermediate), Japanese (Overall - 3 - Advanced)

Backend Engineer, Rakuten Point (Online) –Pay Online System Development Department, Product Development Division, Rakuten Payment, Inc.