Job Description:
Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company's mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.
Rakuten Advertising provides advertising technology and consumer insights to the world's leading brands and retailers. Working with agencies and brands around the world, Rakuten Advertising unites technology, client strategy and consumer insights to deliver advertising experiences that drive increased brand awareness and marketing performance. With access to Rakuten's diverse media properties and audiences, combined with an award-winning performance network and proprietary consumer research, Rakuten Advertising creates the right conditions to reach new customers and sustain long-lasting loyalty.
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Job Summary:
We are a growing, super fast-moving team of Product People looking for some hands-on help in crafting, developing and presenting quantitative analysis that will help our product managers make better decisions using numbers. You will be crafting stories with meaningful insights based on data analysis.
As part of the Rakuten Advertising's software engineering internship program, you will work on a team of interns mentored by senior engineers to deliver production ready and key functionality. Your daily and weekly schedule will exactly mirror that of full-time employees attending huddles, providing project updates, conducting demos, and pair programming. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to attend lightning talks and presentations on topics such as system architecture, automation, and more. Your primary project will be related to developer productivity (deployments, CI/CD, tooling). However, you will gain exposure to all areas of development including DevOps, Data Engineering, and User Experience.
The Intern Experience: At Rakuten, we pride ourselves on giving interns a genuine, immersive experience that has a direct impact on company objectives. You will do meaningful work, and with us, you'll be a true member of the team. We are also invested in your growth as an individual and professional. That's why you can expect curated events such as professional development workshops, interactions with Rakuten leadership, and relationship building opportunities with other interns and professionals at the company. You can visit our company website and our Muse profile, to learn more about Rakuten's culture and values, as well as hear from last year's interns.
Key Responsibilities:
• Enable deploying applications with Kubernetes Containerize applications with Docker Integrate CircleCI into repositories Create developer productivity tools
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or other cloud platforms
• Experience with MVC/API and/or REST frameworks (e.g. Flask, Express, Laravel, Ruby on Rails)
• Experience with one or many of the following languages: Python, TypeScript, Golang
• Experience with build tools (frontend or backend, e.g. Webpack)
• Experience with UI libraries/frameworks such as React
• Experience with SQL
• Previous internship experience
Minimum Requirements:
• Current student or recent graduate of an educational program (bootcamp, university, etc.)
• To be eligible for an intern role, the candidate must be enrolled in a university or equivalent tertiary institution as an undergraduate or graduate student, or have graduated within 12 months of the anticipated start date for the internship.
At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the hourly rate for this role will be between $30 - $50 per hour. Individual compensation will vary based on job-related factors, including the skills, qualifications, and experience of the successful candidate as well as business need and geographic location.
Five Principles for Success
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.
Always improve, Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen
Passionately Professional - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika - Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team
Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.