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Sr. Software Engineer
| Company | Rakuten |
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| Location | San Mateo, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $115005 – $196020 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Excellent understanding of OOP design principles (loose coupling, encapsulation, SOLID etc.)
- Experience in application development using Java, Spring Boot, JPA
- Knowledge of working with OLTP databases like Postgres/MySQL or OLAP databases like Snowflake
- Experience in Java build automation tool like Maven or Gradle
- Knowledge of version control system like Git
- Experience with cloud native application development (Kubernetes, Serverless etc.)
- Experience in designing, implementing different Common Software Architectural Patterns including microservices architecture, event driven architectures
- Strong requirement gathering, analysis and collaboration skills
- Strong communication and presentation skill
- Experience with some different distributed system building blocks(e.g. Kafka, Redis, Elastic Search, or other similar NoSQL product)
- Experience with prompt engineering and optimizing LLM prompts for specific tasks to improve performance and accuracy.
- B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of application development experience
Responsibilities
- Design and build testable, scalable software solutions by deeply understanding business needs, studying information needs; conferring with stakeholders; studying existing systems flow; following the software; implementing industry best practices.
- Form strong partnership with product managers and stakeholders in other teams.
- Break work down into concise deliverables with a focus on iterative product delivery.
- Document and demonstrate solutions by leveraging charts, layouts, diagrams, documentations, clean design and code.
- Exercise independent judgment and creative problem-solving techniques in a highly complex environment using leading-edge technology.
- Respond to production issues when on-call, conduct independent analysis, and apply sound judgment to restore the system.
- Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with them on large-scale projects, fostering their growth and ensuring successful project delivery.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
- AWS Technologies – S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM etc.
- Experience to refactoring legacy systems
- Experience with building Agentic AI systems or chatbots using LLMs and integrating them with existing services
