Senior Software Engineer

Rakuten Asia Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rakuten Asia Pte Ltd is looking for a dynamic full-stack software engineer to take on technical ownership throughout the product development lifecycle. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to execute projects effectively and ensure continuous improvement in system designs.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of software development experience and possess expertise in technologies like Java Spring and MySQL. A proactive mindset and strong problem-solving skills are essential for this role.

This position is based in Singapore and offers numerous opportunities for career advancement within Rakuten's expansive ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Strong technical design and implementation skills.
• Proactive, self-starter, and self-motivated.

Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze requirements.
• Collaborate closely with project management and tech leads.
• Suggest technical improvements and innovations.

Skills

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

Agile development

Java spring (boot+batch)

MySQL

NoSQL (MongoDB)

Version Control - Git

Tools

Jira

Kafka

CI/CD - Jenkins

Job description

Job Description

Rakuten is a leading global e-commerce company. Our mission is to contribute to society by creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship.

At Rakuten, we drive disruptive innovation, engaging knowledge, creativity and passion from around the world to achieve ambitious goals and help build communities in which people can pursue their dreams and live in happiness.

APS boasts a highly motivated, skilled, talented, and friendly team spread across Tokyo, Singapore, India, and China. We are looking for someone who can quickly integrate and collaborate effectively with our team.

We are seeking a dynamic full-stack software engineer to take on technical ownership and responsibilities throughout the product and project development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to solve a wide range of technical and business challenges. We are looking for a tech-savvy individual who is unafraid to step out of their comfort zone and explore new technologies.

This role offers the opportunity to build a robust tech career by developing multiple products within Rakuten's expansive ecosystem and innovative technology cluster.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Project Execution
  • Requirement gathering and analysis
  • Convert business requirement to tech requirement
  • System design
  • Coding and implementation
  • Code review and maintain code quality/standard
  • Unit testing, verification, validation
  • Deployment/Rollback operation for DEV, STG, PROD
  • After-release monitoring, regular maintenance
• Collaboration
  • Working closely with the project manager, tech lead, architect and other project members
  • Collaborate with a separate QA team and DevOps team.
  • Collaborate with cross-culture, cross-border development team during the project execution
• Always Improve, Always Advance
  • Understand the whole product and system and suggest the technical improvements
  • Understand the future business and product needs and suggest system improvement in advance.
  • Think one step ahead, verify up-coming technology and prepare roadmaps to utilize those

Qualifications

General

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience as a Software Engineer
• Strong technical design and implementation skill
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skill
• Complete and hands-on experience of Agile development and SCRUM
• Team player and easy going person
• Proactive, self-starter and self-motivated
• Perform under immense pressure
• Good communication skills with tech/non-tech people
• Strong get-things-done mind with a sense of ownership
• Experience using AI tool like Cursor to improve the code quality and productivity.

Technical

Must have

• Java spring (boot+batch)
• MySQL
• NoSQL (MongoDB)
• GCS, Big Query, Data Proc
• Kafka
• Version Control - Git
• Jira or similar project and task management tool

Good To Have

• Big Data (Hadoop, Hive, Spark)
• REACT, ANGULAR
• NoSQL (Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis)
• Big Data (Tez, Presto)
• Test Automation JUnit
• Code Quality - Sonar
• Streaming platform - Kafka, RabittMQ
• CI/CD - Jenkins
• BI Tool - MicroStrategy, Tableau
• The experience about enterprise system architecture design such as data pipeline design