MANDATORY

• Applicant must be in Japan. *Due to pandemic.

About the company

We are one one of the one of the leading online service providers in Japan with wide ranging services from e-commerce to booking sites to financial service products and even life sciences/cancer treatments.

During this global pandemic we been performing very well and while some of their businesses took a temporary hit, other businesses are making more than up for it with significant growth as a whole business.




What's in it for you

• Fast growing, multi-cultural, international team
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, and transparent culture where your talent is valued over a role title.
• Work/Life Balance: we honor great work and producing great deliverables. Not sitting in the office all day and night.
• Opportunities: variety, innovation, and unique challenges, where you can learn something new every day as well as Utilization of new technologies.

Job Description

• We are looking for fullstack engineers that are interested building and running a science platform for Science & AI applications.
• The platform integrates latest solutions including On-Prem/On-Cloud computing resources, application frameworks for running new Machine Learning, Deep Learning applications for AI.
• You will have many opportunities to use the latest technology, and choose the best platform solutions based on good design thinking.
• You will work with small and quick moving teams, and also with other data scientists as the platform customers.

Responsibility

• Design and implement application architecture.
• Work along with engineers and promote collaboration between teams.
• Validate and Improve the code quality in Rakuten.
• Participate in the mid and long term product vision.
• R&D activity for new technologies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Computer science or related background
• 6+ years' experience in software development, especially using Java/Golang as a programming language
• Experience with microservice architecture like Spring Boot/Spring Cloud
• Experience with RESTful design/Unit Test/Integration Test
• Experience with SQL and some of the modern relational databases
• Experience with Cache like Redis/Memcache
• Experience with message queue like RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins/Spinnaker/Docker
• Experience with Throttling/QoS/Stress Test/etc
• Experience with common Linux commands and Linux scripting languages
• Experience with designing and building tools based on specific requirements
• Experience with building and maintaining data science platform

Preferred skills

• Able to work in a team-oriented environment
• Experience with service mesh architecture like Istio
• Experiences in web service development in multiply industries.
• Solid knowledge of large volumes data processing
• Experience with NoSQL databases, such as HBase, MongoDB, CouchBase
• Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Native technologies
• Experience with log aggregation system like ELK/Flume
• Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS and Big Data querying tools, such as Tez, Hive, and Impala

Employment type

• Permanent

Salary

• 4-8M JYP annually (Negotiable based on experience)

Work arrangement

• Team/department dependent (3 times in office is preferred)

Location

• Tokyo

Please note you do not need to match all qualifications.