Senior Engineer, Content Platform

Job Description:

Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company’s mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.

Rakuten Viki is a global entertainment streaming platform that specializes in Asian content. Our platform enables millions of viewers to discover and enjoy primetime shows and movies, subtitled in over 150 languages. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, we also have offices in Singapore, Seoul, and Shanghai, ensuring a strong global presence and a deep connection to the heart of Asian entertainment. Our platform is home to a large and loyal community of fans who share a passion for Asian culture and entertainment. Join us in our mission to bridge cultures and connect the world to Asian entertainment. At Rakuten Viki, we offer a chance to be part of a global community that celebrates culture, creativity, and connection.

About the Content Platform Team

The Content Platform Team plays an essential role in Viki’s mission of breaking the lingual barriers to bring global entertainment to fans everywhere. Sitting in the heart of Viki content business, the team empowers the end-to-end Viki Business Operations by designing and building mission-critical systems, applications, and automated workflows which

• Manages content data and assets in Viki and publishes them for downstream consumption

• Enables very lean Viki Internal teams to scale their outputs and deliver world-class quality service to millions of Viki customers (Content Operations, Customer Experience, Privacy Compliance, Marketing, ...)

• Allows Viki Content Providers to deliver content to Viki in reliable and structured manner so Viki users could enjoy their favorite shows

• Collaborates with Viki Distribution Partners to enable users to discover Viki content on Google Media Actions, Android TV, Apple TV, Xiaomi TV, FireTV, …

We own our end-to-end software development lifecycle from design, implementation, deployment, testing, operation, to maintenance.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Technical ownership of a platform subsystem end-to-end architecturally

• Tackle large and complex technical challenges that come with scalability which are often not well defined

• Make design decisions and build solutions that are scalable, performant, extensible, maintainable for the long term

• Improve the reliability and efficiency of our services and eliminate vulnerabilities before they are discovered

• Contribute technical expertise to the team by proposing and driving new initiatives such as new technologies, processes or improvements and drive software engineering best practices

• Works with product stakeholders to help design roadmaps, prioritize between features/operational work/bug fixes

• Consistently look for opportunities to reduce the complexity of projects, services, and processes in order to get more done with less work

• Mentor junior engineers by providing technical guidance and constructive feedback and contribute to the recruiting effort of new engineers

• Actively promotes knowledge sharing and learning with team and across teams

• Write high-quality production code in Ruby, Go, and Javascript

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent fields

• 5-8 years of software engineering experience

• Proficient in designing and developing large scale distributed systems and microservices

• Certain level of familiarity with backend development related technology stacks such as Go/Golang, Node.js, Ruby, Javascript, Python, PostgreSQL (Mysql), RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS and GCP

• Extensive knowledge of practical operating system concepts around Linux/ Unix and networking

Preferred Qualification:

• Experiences in building or working with distributed systems and microservices

• Experiences in working in product companies

• Hands-on experience building web applications, and APIs using

• Javascript and any of the following frameworks: Ember.js, Backbone.js, React.js, or Angular.js. We use Ember.js

• Programming languages such as Ruby, Go, Python, with willingness to take up Ruby and Rails

• Relational DBs (Postgresql or Mysql or equivalent) and

• Caching technologies like Redis or equivalent

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.