Situated in the heart of Singapore's Central Business District, Rakuten Asia Pte. Ltd. is Rakuten's Asia Regional headquarters. Established in August 2012 as part of Rakuten's global expansion strategy, Rakuten Asia comprises various businesses that provide essential value-added services to Rakuten's global ecosystem. Through advertisement product development, product strategy, and data management, among others, Rakuten Asia is strengthening Rakuten Group's core competencies to take the lead in an increasingly digitalized world.
Rakuten Group, Inc. is a global leader in internet services that empower individuals, communities, businesses, and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content, and communications to approximately 1.7 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has nearly 32,000 employees and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/
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/
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 services group.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborating with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications
- Work on improving our marketing platform to make it more powerful, scalable and easy to use for business people.
- Design and implement features evolving our online advertising and data management product offerings with metadata and user data.
- 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.
- Successfully communicate 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.
- Review and approve final product before launch.
Required Skill and Knowledge:
- 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 is must to have)
- 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.
Good to have, Skill and Knowledge:
- 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.
Rakuten is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.
