Associate Software Engineer

Situated in the heart of Singapore's Central Business District, Rakuten Asia Pte. Ltd. is Rakuten's Asia Regional headquarters. Established in August 2012 as part of Rakuten's global expansion strategy, Rakuten Asia comprises various businesses that provide essential value-added services to Rakuten's global ecosystem. Through advertisement product development, product strategy, and data management, among others, Rakuten Asia is strengthening Rakuten Group's core competencies to take the lead in an increasingly digitalized world.

Department Overview

The Global Ad Technology Department (GATD) manages the whole of the advertising systems that power Rakuten. We are a cross-functional and data-driven organization working together in a diverse team spread across five countries: Japan, Singapore, India, China, and the UK.

GATD Website: https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/feature/adtech/en/

Position Summary:

The role has the responsibility of our online marketing platform development. As a Software Engineer in the CPS team, you will be exposed to strong direct marketing experience across multiple marketing channels as well as technical knowledge to process big data. You will be building and maintaining systems that support marketing activities efficiently.

Responsibilities:

Your main responsibility will be the development and maintenance of the online marketing platform, understanding both business demand and available system assets.

• Involved in whole process of application life cycle: architecture design, middleware selection, development, configuration setting, application release and production system operation.
• In case of trouble, detecting root cause and recovering with team members proactively with ownership of service/system.
• Proposing new technologies, middle-wares, tools etc. to improve architecture of systems.
• Working closely with related teams in both Singapore and overseas, such as Japan and India.

Skills and Experiences:

• Any related degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong CS fundamentals in object-oriented design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Experience with distributed systems, caching and persistence solutions would be a plus.
• Ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues under the pressure of time.
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with strong command of verbal and written English.
• Demonstrated skill and passion for operational excellence.
• Customer–focused mind-set, taking pride in creating an informative data-driven journey.

Experience with any the following tech programs:

• HTML5, CSS3, JS, AngularJS, ReactJS
• Core Java 8, Spring 4.0 and above
• MYSQL/Any relational DB experience.
• Mongo DB/any NO SQL experience
• Jenkins
• Maven
• Docker/Spark streaming
• Junit

Rakuten is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief, or age.