Job Description

• Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Why you should choose us?

Are you interested in working for a Global Leader in E-commerce? Are you excited about working on highly scalable platforms and applications that are accessed by millions of users every day? If so, read on to find out more about the opportunity.

About the Company

Founded in 1997, Rakuten Group is headquartered in Tokyo, with over 14,000 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’s vision is to become the worlds’ biggest membership company. Rakuten provides the opportunities where employees can grow in a large dynamic and innovative company, along with the entrepreneurial environment of a startup. Rakuten’s global footprint spans six continents and multiple industries.

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 1700(& Growing).

Rakuten is a global group of companies with offices in Japan, Europe, Singapore, the United States, India and other countries. When you apply to us for a position we may consider your application for roles in one of our other offices as well, and may share your information based on interest and competence. Any information we share about you shall remain confidential as per the Rakuten group’s candidate selection and recruitment processes.

We embrace new and disruptive ideas and we are looking for an Architect who is committed to acting on them and have the operational agility to implement and deliver quality products at speed. Utilize your computer engineering knowledge, skills and experience to transform Rakuten's products and services across a diverse range of tech areas.

Key responsibilities include:

· Scoping, planning, and technical architecture reviews

· Grow and manage the skills, talent in the organization

· Mentor and guide team on the System Design and Architecture

· Responsible for day-to-day management of Services development team

· Partner with Development, Test, DevOps, Product/Project Management, Business Unit, Operations, and other delivery teams to ensure effective launch and delivery of projects

· Drive automated solutions that enable better efficiency and process improvement

Expertise:

• 17+ yrs of experience in Software product environment
• Expert in Web based Technologies (Java), web services architecture, Microservice architecture, design patterns and frameworks
• Expert in Spring boot framework with minimum 4 years of experience in the same
• Experience working with caches, app servers, web containers
• Understanding of datastores, MySql, PostgreSql, noSql based
• Expert in at least one cloud platform (GCP/AWS, GCP is preferred)
• Experience in Kubernetes is an added advantage
• Good understanding of development best practices and tools
• Good understating of DevOps, release engineering and infrastructure management
• Hands on experience with complex project management, agile based preferred
• Comfortable working with a distributed team