Business Overview

Rakuten Travel is a leading online travel service in Japan, dedicated to “Making People Happy with Travel”.

https://travel.rakuten.com/

Since our founding in 1996, we have consistently led the industry, challenging the norms and fostering innovation. With growing aspirations to expand beyond borders as a Global Innovation Company, we are not confined to Japan but continue to strive daily to become the world's premier travel reservation service.

Department Overview

At the forefront of the Commerce & Marketing Company, Travel Development Department (TDD) is distinctive for overseeing the entire spectrum of Rakuten Travel's development and operations. We primarily focus on the following key areas:

1.Globalization of Rakuten Travel to compete in global markets

2.Continuous improvement and strengthening Rakuten Travel’s presence in Japan to increase customer satisfaction

We are seeking like-minded individuals who resonate with our purpose. Join us at Rakuten Travel, propose new forms of travel to people around the world, and strive to be pioneers shaping the future of travel. Your passion and creativity will breathe new life into the travel industry, filled with infinite possibilities. We eagerly await your application and potentially invite you to take on challenges in a diverse environment in collaboration with new peers.

In this role, you will be responsible for the development and operation of mobility-related services (including bus, car rental, and car-sharing services) offered by Rakuten Travel. This is a highly rewarding opportunity to play a leading role in the MaaS (Mobility as a Service) industry. You will be expected to leverage cutting-edge technology to deliver services that meet the evolving needs of modern mobility. Furthermore, as an industry leader, you will have the opportunity to explore new business models and contribute directly to the growth of Rakuten Travel. This is an exceptionally compelling position that offers significant potential for future career advancement and professional growth.

Position:

Why We Hire

As demand for rental cars, car sharing, and buses increases, new functions need to be developed. We are looking for good engineer to work with us to create future mobility services.

Position Details

We are hiring backend engineers.

Your role will be to work with team members, product managers, and related teams within the Rakuten Group (payment, points, membership) to handle the API development and operation of Rakuten Travel Mobility Services. You will be expected to demonstrate leadership in the MaaS industry while working on the development and improvement of innovative services that handle large-scale traffic.

In addition, through the improvement of API functions, performance tuning, monitoring, and alert response, you will address problem resolution and inquiries from users.

you can be a role model for the next generation of engineers with solid technical skills, leading the growth of the organization.

These attractive positions offer the opportunity to hone your technical skills while maximizing the team's development experience. You can also contribute to the growth of the organization, providing opportunities for career development and tackling various challenges.

Within six months to a year of joining the company, you are expected to play a key role as an engineer in the new development or operation of Rakuten Travel Mobility Services.

Work Environment

It is an organization of about 20 people, mainly young members in their 20s and 30s with different nationalities and cultures.

Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Config, JUnit, Apache Maven, IntelliJ IDEA

Oracle Database, Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kong, Nginx, Tomcat ClaudeCode

Private cloud Rakuten IaaS (Virtual Machine)

Jennifer (APM), New Relic (APM), ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus, Grafana, Oracle Enterprise Manager, MongoDB Ops Manager, PagerDuty

Jenkins, SonarQube, Ansible

Microsoft Teams, Confluence, JIRA, BitBucket, etc.

Mandatory Qualifications:

・Experience in designing, developing, and operating large-scale Web APIs on Linux servers using Java and Spring Framework

・Experience in table design/ query creation for efficient use of RDBMS such as Oracle Database and NoSQL such as MongoDB/Redis

・Ability to have active and positive discussions in English

・Motivated to work in a development team

・Experience in project management or team leadership

・Ability to drive software development with ownership

・Continuously learn new technologies and explore possible solutions to the challenges and requirements at hand

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