Front-end Engineer (Global E-Commerce Platform) - Rakuten- Tokyo, Japan

Front-end Engineer (Global E-Commerce Platform)

Rakuten- Tokyo, Japan

Job Description

Job Responsibilities
1) Position Summary
"Global E-Commerce Marketplace Section has been working on construct Global E-Commerce Platform and development services/features.We have already provided for Malaysia last year, but we have still not provided enough services and features. We have to provide more services and features. And also we have to implement new countries or migrate existing countries to GECP speedy and low cost .So it's urgent to hire core engineers of each services.
We are looking for engineer or engineer leader candidates who can develop merchant(*) and/or consumer(**) services with flexible idea and speed.

*R-Storefront, R-Backoffice, and so on"
**Top page, Product page, Search page, shopping cart, and so on"

Job Appeal:
・This is a challenging task that can realize growth of business and services by involved in development from start-up.
・You can learn culture and local specific services in other countries.
・We should still proceed improvement and growth in the future expansion of new countries, so it is possible to try to innovative technology and improve architecture.

2) Responsibilities
・System Design, Development, Testing and Release Operation, and achieve high quality, given specification and schedule.
・Investigate and improve architecture.
・Keep system availability of your service.

Job Requirements
3) Minimum Qualifications
・Programming experience in web application with Ruby, JAVA, PHP for over 3 years, and require at least 1 year with Ruby
・Programming experience in javascript for over 1 years
・Command line operation in Linux
・Write and review a code considering serurity
・Work with multiple stakeholders by flexible coordination

4) Preferred Qualifications
・Development experience of Ruby on Rails
・Development experience of Internationalized sysytem
・Development experience with offshore resource
・Operation experience of PaaS serivce
・Operation experience of huge scale sysytem
・Operation experience of consumer service
・Agile(Scrum)

5) Communication Language
・Japanse: Bussiness level
・English: Have TOEIC score over 650, willing to improve

Company Description

Rakuten, Inc. (JASDAQ: 4755) is the largest ecommerce company in Japan, and third largest ecommerce marketplace company worldwide. Rakuten provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas.

Founded in 1997, Rakuten is headquartered in Tokyo, with over 10,000 employees and partner staff worldwide. Rakuten's 2011 revenues were US$ 4.7 billion, and it has a market capitalization of approximately US$14 billion. Rakuten ranks amongst the top 10 Internet companies in the world (along with Google, Amazon, eBay, Baidu, Yahoo, etc.).

Rakuten Ichiba, our Japanese ecommerce site, is named after Rakuichi-Rakuza, the first free and open marketplace in Japan. When used as a verb, raku is written with a Chinese character meaning to enjoy oneself. The same character is used in Rakuten's name, which means "positive spirit," because we believe that shopping should always be entertaining. These words symbolize the forward looking nature of our business, hence the name, Rakuten, Inc.


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