- Office in Singapore
Job Description:
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 200 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 unite the world through the love of Asian entertainment. At Rakuten Viki, we offer a chance to be part of a global community that celebrates culture, creativity, and connection.
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.
About the Product Services Group: The Product Services group comprises multiple backend engineering teams that develop and maintain services powering Viki's API and business workflows. We handle everything from Viki's content API, Identity & communication subsystems, Monetization & subscriptions, Content ingestion, publishing and management systems, and many other backend components critical to a video streaming platform. As we move towards enhancing personalized user experiences, we are forming a new team dedicated to improving the integration between our frontend and backend systems. This team will serve as a bridge between the frontend and backend, collaborating closely with both backend and frontend engineering teams to create a UI-focused API layer. The aim is to provide our users with faster, more tailored, and seamless experiences.
Position Overview: As we prepare our backend for massive business growth, we are in search of an Associate Engineer (Backend Development) to join our new team. The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in solving complex problems and contributing to the development of a scalable platform, with a focus on improving the integration between frontend and backend systems. Based in Singapore, this role will report to the Engineering Manager.
Key Responsibilities:
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and maintain backend systems.
Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices in Go, Ruby, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
Work closely with frontend engineering and product teams to design and build UI-focused APIs that enhance user experiences.
Debug and resolve backend issues to ensure the reliability and performance of our systems.
Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge with the team.
Contribute to and conduct system design reviews for systems you and/or the team are working on, as well as systems that impact your team's work.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
1-3 years of software engineering experience in a product development environment.
Fresh graduates are encouraged to apply and will be considered.
Prior experience or knowledge of backend development programming languages/frameworks, databases, cloud technologies, version control, and deployment practices.
Strong communication skills in English, with the ability to explain technical concepts or issues to senior team members.
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.
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