Software Developer

at  VIKI PRIVATE LIMITED

Rakuten Group, Inc. is the largest e-commerce company in Japan, and third largest e-commerce marketplace company worldwide, with over 1.5 billion registered users worldwide. The Rakuten brand is recognized worldwide for its leadership and innovation, and provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas.
Rakuten Viki is a premier global entertainment streaming site where millions of people discover and consume primetime shows and movies subtitled in more than 200 languages, by our community of fans. With billions of videos viewed and more than 1 billion words translated, Viki brings global entertainment to fans everywhere!
Based in Singapore, this role will report to the Engineering Manager.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or a related field, or a strong past work experience in building software systems or products
• Fresh graduates are also encouraged to apply and will be considered
• Prior experience or knowledge with a backend or data engineering stack, language/framework, databases, cloud technologies, version control, deployment practices
• Good communication skills and are able to explain technical concepts or issues to the senior members of the 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

• Translating the pipelines into reusable and scalable data pipelines and frameworks for ingestion, processing, storage and consumption
• Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data systems to answer specific business questions
• Improving and maintaining the existing application & workflows’ correctness, performance, SLAs and architecture’s integrity
• Upholding adherence to the right data engineering practices while building the data systems and pipelines, such as writing clean, efficient code, proper automation testing, CI / CD, logging, monitoring and alerting
• Participate in code reviews and ensuring high standards of code quality, in addition to ensuring that development guidelines are followed