Software Engineer

Software Engineer on the Attribution Team, design, build, and maintain high-throughput distributed systems that power Rakuten’s core order processing, tracking, and rewards orchestration services.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Java or JVM-based languages (e.g., Groovy), including multi-threading and concurrency.
• Experience designing distributed systems with high availability and fault tolerance.
• Proven experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kinesis).
• Experience with stream processing frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming) and integrating AI/ML models into pipelines.
• Expertise in designing scalable RESTful or gRPC APIs.
• Strong SQL and NoSQL database experience, including performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS or GCP), Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing monitoring and distributed tracing tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger).
• Strong commitment to Test-Driven Development (TDD) and automated testing practices.

Benefits

• stock options
• health, vision, dental insurance
• RRSP matching
• Personal Time Off (PTO)
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO)