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 Rewards is a leading e-commerce company that enhances the way people shop by offering Cash Back, deals and rewards from more than 3,500 merchants. Founded in 1999, Rakuten has grown to become the go-to shopping destination for consumers, having paid out nearly $2 billion in Cash Back to its 15 million members. The company also operates ShopStyle, a leading fashion discovery destination, and Cartera Commerce, a top rewards platform for airlines and banks. For more information, visit www.rakuten.com.
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Job Summary:
We are looking for a skilled Sr. Software Engineer - Backend with expertise in java, graph databases (e.g., TigerGraph, Neo4j), Snowflake, and event-driven architectures to build scalable APIs and real-time decisioning systems. You will be responsible for designing and developing high-performance data services, integrating multiple data sources, and implementing real-time processing pipelines using even-driven technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services that integrate graph databases and Snowflake for real-time analytics.
- Develop restful APIs to expose insights from graph databases to downstream applications and decisioning engines.
- Design and implement event-driven services using Kafka or similar technologies to process real-time data.
- Optimize query performance across both databases (graph and Snowflake) for low-latency access.
- Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and other developers to support data modeling efforts and to improve and expand our graph-based systems.
- Deploy and manage cloud-based solutions using AWS (Lambda, S3, EKS, SageMaker, etc.).
- Implement CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing and deployments.
- Monitor and troubleshoot production issues, ensuring high availability and resilience.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in backed development using Java or Scala programming languages.
- Hands on experience with graph databases (TigerGraph, Neo4j, AWS Neptune, etc.) and Snowflake.
- Strong knowledge of event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Hands on experience with AWS services (Lambda, S3, EKS, SageMaker, etc.).
- Proficiency in SQL.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with microservices architectures and distributed systems.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment and collaborate with. stakeholders from various disciplines.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
- Expertise with TigerGraph and optimizing queries (using GSQL) for large-scale graph traversals.
- Knowledge of streaming frameworks (Apache Flink, Spark Streaming, etc.).
- Expertise with Spring framework (Spring MVC, Spring Integration, Spring Batch).
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.
At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the base compensation for this role to be within the range shown below. 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. The successful applicant for this role will be eligible for discretionary bonus, health, vision, dental insurance, 401k matching, PTO, Volunteer Time Off (VTO), and other employee benefits as the company implements.
USD $115,005.00 - $196,020.00 annually