Senior Software Engineer, TG Affiliate - Global Ad Technology Supervisory Department (GATD)

Job Description:

Department Overview

The Global Ad Technology Supervisory Department (GATD) manages the whole of the advertising platforms 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 UK.

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

About the team:

We pride ourselves in having over 20 years of experience in the business being one of the greatest affiliate marketing networks in the performance marketing community. By our data-driven technologies we empower both advertisers and publishers in creating effective partnerships to successfully reach consumers and accelerate performance.

Position:

Why We Hire

We’d like to accelerate development of our Affiliate platform and related services. Hence we’re widely recruiting new talents from inside/outside the company.

Position Details

Position Summary

You, as a Senior Software Engineer in the team will be required strong direct marketing insight across multiple marketing channels as well as strong technical knowledge to implement user story into the platform and support marketing activity quickly and efficiently.

Responsibilities

Your main responsibility will be development and maintenance of Affiliate system understanding both business demand and available system assets.

- Involved in whole process of web application development life cycle: architecture design, middleware selection, development, configuration setting, release and 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.

Work Environment

We have members from various countries and different cultural backgrounds so it is a very lively cross-cultural environment where we can work, learn, have fun solving interesting problems, and grow together.

Mandatory Qualifications:

- More than 3 year of professional experience on web application development by PHP, or Java.

- Development experience on web application frameworks such as Laravel, or Spring.

- Familiar with various OSS and able to investigate, evaluate and adopt it to the system.

- Ability of system architecture design.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Desired Qualifications:

- Practical knowledge of system performance tuning including Infra, OS, middleware, and application.

- Familiar with container deployment setting (Docker, k8s, Jenkins).

- Experience of Frontend development with TypeScript, Vue, Material UI.

- Familiar with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS and Azure.

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