Job Description:

Department Overview

The Global Ad Technology Department (GATD) manages the whole of the advertising systems that power Rakuten. We are a cross functional and data-driven organization working together in a diverse team spread across five countries: Japan, Singapore, India, China and UK.

GATD Website

https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/feature/adtech/en/　

Position:

Why We Hire

Our organization has a lot of services and systems which are composed of various technologies.

To ensure the high system quality of each services and to increase engineers capability we are trying to seek full-time higher level Senior Software Architect to join our architect team. In this position, the Senior Software Architect on Horizontal Organization which called Tech Management Section.

We are looking for an experienced Software Architect to make intuitive high level decisions for software development.

You will see the “big picture” and create architectural approaches for software design and implementation to guide the development team under the whole GATD services group.

Position Details

- Collaborating with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications

- Using tools and methodologies to create representations for functions and user interface of desired product

- Developing high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility

- Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards

- Communicate successfully all concepts and guidelines to development team

- Oversee progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design

- Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers through Architecture review and Tech support activities

- Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc

- Approve final product before launch

Mandatory Qualifications:

- At least 10+ years of experience in software development including solution or technical architecture experience

- Experience in software development and coding in various languages (Especially Java)

- Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture

- Excellent knowledge of UML and other modeling methods

- Excellent knowledge of API design and implementation

- Understanding of software quality assurance principles

- A technical mindset with great attention to detail

- High quality organizational and leadership skills

- Outstanding communication and presentation abilities

- Strong analytical and quantitative problem solving ability

- Proactive self-starter with self-motivated mind

- Strong get-things-done mind with a sense of ownership

Desired Qualifications:

- Basic knowledge of digital marketing or advertising technologies - Ad serving, Ad tracking, DSP, SSP, DMP, Campaign Management, etc

- Experience with big data solutions and data pip-line and processing - Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka, etc

- Understanding Micro service architecture concepts and containerized applications

- Familiarity with HTML/CSS, JavaScript and UI/UX design

Others Information:

Additional information on Location

Futakotamagawa Rise Office

Additional information on English Qualification

TOEIC 800 above

## engineer ## applicationsengineer ## globaladdiv

Languages:

English (Overall - 3 - Advanced), Japanese (Overall - 3 - Advanced)