Software Engineer (for various services) - Rakuten- Tokyo, Japan

Software Engineer (for various services)

Rakuten- Tokyo, Japan

Job Description

Job Responsibilities
1) Position Summary
This is not a service specific position.
Your application will be reviewed by various sections providing different services.
Hence, it may take longer for your application to be processed compared to other positions.

2) Responsibilities
- Develop applications to operate Rakuten's various services and internal systems.
- Develop high quality web applications within a short period of time together with producers and other engineers as a team.
- Propose and implement measures such as performance tuning system reconstruction to improve the current system environment.

- Workflow
1. Find out requirements
2. Design
3. Program
4. Test (including QA test and security test)
5. Implement, operate and improve service

Job Requirements
3) Minimum Qualifications
- Bilingual - Japanese and English
Japanese : Business level
English : TOEIC 650 and above
- Hands-on experience in system design, development and operation in JAVA/PHP/Ruby (minimum 5 years)
- 5 to 10 years work experience

4) Preferred Qualifications
- Web application development experience
- Basic Knowledge of server, network, and database
- UNIX operation experience
- Experience as a leader or a sub-leader
- Experience in development by LAMP

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.