Job Description

About Company:

Founded in 1997, Rakuten Group is headquartered in Tokyo, with over 20,000 employees worldwide. Rakuten started as the largest eCommerce company in Japan but has now become one of the largest internet conglomerates in Japan offering more than 70 services worldwide including Fintech businesses (Card, Securities, Bank, and insurance) as well as newly entered mobile carrier business as 4th carrier in Japan.

Rakuten India Development Centre is the second largest technology hub outside of Japan that enables & builds platforms for global E commerce, Payments, Digital, AI, Data Science services across the globe. The India arm serves as a research and development center with an employee strength of around 1200 & growing

Responsibilities:

• Assessment platform level bottlenecks , potential risk and optimization opportunities.
• Develop comprehensive solution design documentation , technical specifications
• Platform Migration and capacity planning
• Architecture design for cloud native applications.
• Tool and language selection for the adaptation of platform engineering best practices.
• Technical Leadership and Mentoring of team members.

Qualifications / Skills / Experience:

• Firm grasp of cloud native architecture design.
• In-depth knowledge of Java Spring Boot and Open source Java tools
• Strong concepts of Scalability, Security, Monitoring.
• Must have delivered scalable and performant solution(s) using latest tech-stack using Micro-services, NoSQL, SQL, Event Stream Processing
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
• A polyglot with in-depth experience of scripting, compiled and transcript languages.
• 10+ years’ experience in application development with 4+ years of experience as architect of cloud native solutions.
• Very good communication skills and ability to motivate team members.

Key Skills:

Cloud , Virtualization , Kubernetes , Service Mesh , API Gateway , IAM Solution