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DX Solution Lead Engineer - Backoffice Business Support Section, Business Support Development Department (BSD)

RakutenTokyo, Japan

19 days ago

Job description

Description

Business Overview

Rakuten is one of the leading e-commerce site operating companies in the world. Our mission is to empower people and society through the internet while aiming at becoming the Global Innovation Company.

Rakuten Ichiba : Department Overview

As an essential division of Rakuten Commerce Company, we provide a wide variety of external and internal applications for supporting Rakuten Ichiba's business. Currently, we are expanding our service to support many other businesses under Commerce Company.

Some examples :

Web service for Ichiba shop open for both Japan and Oversea
Low-code web form building system
Merchant information management system
Business process management system

To improve the backend business process, we are supporting BPM, and DX for BU with various members (Business Analyst, Product Manager, System Architect, etc.)

Our various services are currently powered by Java, PHP, JavaScript, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, React, Redux, MySQL, Oracle, Salesforce, Pega, etc. We always encourage adopting new technologies to enhance our services, like Kafka, container-based technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), microservice architecture, etc.

Our development teams are divided between Tokyo and Osaka. So, you can choose your desired work location.

Position : Why We Hire

We are looking for the right people to develop and operate Rakuten’s in-house system (BPM), which includes all operations related to merchant life cycle—from shop open to close. Currently we are introducing BPM (using PEGA) to support improvements to productivity. You will be able to acquire business analysis skills and system integration skills through projects involving a wide variety of departments and businesses. Additionally, you will receive direct feedback from business users in order to respond to and support the business development of Rakuten Ichiba. It is an important and rewarding role in which you can see your products and projects improve constantly.

Position Details

After onboarding with Rakuten, you will join the development team as a software engineer and be able to choose your career path going forward according to your preferences, considering the balance between technical needs and management.

Responsibilities :

Design, develop, and operate our systems, all from our customers' perspectives

Acquire an accurate understanding of business needs and translate them into optimal specifications and architectures

Code quality - has a passion for code quality, performing thorough code reviews and enforcing good coding standards, practices and tools

Be the technical and quality leader of the other self-moving engineers on the team

Plan and execute projects together with the other team engineers and product / project managers

Consider the future of our services and continue to improve them

Mandatory Qualifications :

Over 5 years of experience in Java web application development (design, development, testing, release, and operation)

Experience in database design and implementing applications considering system integration

Experience in software architecture design and middleware selection

Experience in project leadership and management as an engineer, including negotiations with users and vendors

Good communication skills in Japanese with both verbal and written

Desired Qualifications :

Experience in developing business applications using the PEGA Platform (customization)

Experience in the operation and maintenance of business systems using PEGA

Understanding of infrastructure such as DB, web servers, and network

Experience in the operation / tuning of web applications and knowledge of security

Automation of deployments, tests and releases using tools, such as Jenkins

Process management and documentation using tools, such as JIRA, Confluence

Others Information :

Additional information on Location

Tokyo or Osaka

Languages :

English (Overall - 3 - Advanced), Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)

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