Sr. Software Engineer (iOS)

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 looking for a senior iOS engineer to join our rapidly growing engineering team. We’re an international team spanning across 3 continents responsible for building software used by hundreds of millions of users.

Working within a Squads structure, you will collaborate with product, design and engineering teammates to build, and maintain our next generation of iOS applications while identifying and fixing application bottlenecks, maintaining the core code, and updating applications published on the App Store.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and building mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform.
• Collaborating with the design team to define app features.
• Ensuring quality and performance of application to specifications.
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Fixing application bugs before final release.
• Publishing application on App Store.
• Maintaining the code and atomization of the application.
• Designing and implementing application updates.
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• Proven experience as an app developer.
• Knowledge of iOS back-end services.
• Knowledge of Apple’s design principals and application interface guidelines.
• Knowledge of C-based libraries.
• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs and cloud messaging.
• Experience with continuous integration.
  
  

Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Proficient in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa Touch.
• Proficient in code versioning tools such as GIT
  
  

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.