About this role
Job Description:
Business Overview
Rakuten Group, Inc. is the largest e-Commerce company in Japan, and provides a variety of services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications to many users all over the world.
Department Overview
Search Department focuses on Search, Discovery, and Navigation experience for users of Rakuten. We design, develop, and deploy high performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems used by millions of Rakuten customers every day. We strive to deliver the most innovative solutions that are helpful to people and societies around the world.
Position:
Why We Hire
We are looking for a senior backend software engineer to work on core search system development. The role will build the state-of-the-art search systems, propelling the fast iteration of search development.
Position Details
- Support fast iterations of Rakuten search business and further enable the product growth.
- Build a fast and robust Search product by keeping optimizing system performance and improving service stability.
- Construct a high freshness index and provide a reliable offline data support for Search Engine.
- Guarantee reasonable Search architecture governance to ensure that the overall system operates smoothly.
Mandatory Qualifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors with minimum 3-5 years of experience in either backend service development or data engineering domain.
- Strong programming skills and solid knowledge in data structure and algorithm.
- Good understanding of operating system and networking concepts.
- Hands-on experience with at least one data processing framework (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Flink, etc)
- Knowledge in database (be it relational or KV-like) is a plus.
- A strong problem-solving mindset and good communication skills.
- Self-motivated and a team player.
Desired Qualifications:
- Good understanding on how modern Search system is built or/and how modern Search product should be evolved.
- Industry experience in building a consumer-facing Search product.
- Japanese speaking and reading capability is good to have.
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Other facts
About Rakuten
Rakuten Group, Inc. (TSE: 4755) is a global technology leader in services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications to 2 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has more than 30,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/.
What you'll do
- The role involves developing core search systems to support fast iterations of Rakuten's search business and enhance product growth. The engineer will also focus on optimizing system performance and ensuring service stability.
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