Full Stack Software Engineer - Visual Intelligence Engineering Department (VIED)

Job Description:

Business Overview

Rakuten is one of the biggest marketplace of Japan and is the largest internet ecosystem with a wide range of services ranging from e-Commerce, Travel, Banking, Fintech, Food Delivery, Golf, Insurance, Instant Messaging, Mobile Network etc. Rakuten has over 140 services globally. Our mission is to empower people and society through the internet while aiming at becoming the Global Innovation Company.

Department Overview

The Visual Intelligence Engineering Department (VIED), part of the AI and Data Division, delivers scalable computer vision technology to drive measurable business outcomes. Leveraging Rakuten's unique data and expertise, VIED develops innovative solutions in areas like content moderation, OCR, face verification, and Creative AI, with a focus on engineering excellence, reusability, and state-of-the-art CV algorithms.

VIED's strategy includes advancing Creative AI for personalized, engaging content and building scalable systems for seamless testing and deployment of computer vision models. Committed to collaboration, standardized processes, and continuous improvement, VIED seeks top talent in computer vision and machine learning to create impactful, scalable solutions aligned with Rakuten's goals.

Position:

Why We Hire

We're looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer that are excited about the opportunity to build applications to manage our large Search deployment.
Our system leverages a variety of technologies from Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes), back-end (Java, Spring Boot etc) and front-end (React.js) to build intuitive, scalable and interactive applications.
As a Full Stack Engineer in the Search Platform Team, you'll work with a team that is fully responsible for every aspect of the development cycle, including architectural design, implementation and integration of back-end and front-end services and evaluation and tuning of the system's stability and scalability.
In our team we always strive to self-improve and challenge our system, putting special emphasis on finding the right approach to each improvement in order to make our platform maintainable and flexible.

Mandatory Qualifications:

- Experience with Front-end and Back-end with modern frameworks

- Experience with Web API development

- Good understanding of system bottlenecks and troubleshooting　

Desired Qualifications:

- Experience with React.js and Spring Boot

- Experience with performance sensitive (low latency, highly scalable) systems

- Experience with high availability, fault tolerant and self-healing systems.

- Experience with Linux Systems usage and troubleshooting

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