Engineering Manager, Platform Software Engineering Group - Cloud Services Department (CLSD)

Job Description:

Business Overview 
The Technology Platforms Division (TPD) drives the growth of Rakuten's ecosystem by delivering innovative, high-quality technology platforms characterized by integrated control and strategic partnerships.

  
Within TPD, the Cloud Platform Supervisory Department (CPSD) develops and manages Rakuten's state-of-the-art cloud platform, empowering global scalability and accelerating innovation across its diverse business units. 

Department Overview

The Cloud Services Department (CLSD) at Rakuten Group provides high-quality cloud infrastructure and platform services to application developers across Rakuten. Our mission is to enable secure, scalable, and efficient digital innovation. We deliver key domain services, including compute, storage, core infrastructure components, databases, container platform, observability, and gateway solutions, empowering Rakuten application teams to focus on their core business objectives.

Position:

Why We Hire

We are increasing our development capabilities, and we are continuously adding new members to our organization. In order for us to keep growing in the future, we are looking for new engineering management talent to support us achieve our mission as the Cloud Services Department.

Position Details

As an Engineering Manager you will play a critical role in our organization, providing leadership and strategic direction to one of our software engineering groups as well as taking accountability for the team capacity to deliver and the quality of the deliverables. We are looking for a person who has expertise in managing the career path of engineers through mentorship and guidance, has experience taking responsibility of the quality of the services he or she owns in production, and has a passion for the technical quality of his or her technical products.

Mandatory Qualifications:

- Coach and guide the Scrum team to successfully deliver high quality products that align with the section’s direction and adhere to the acceptance criteria set forth by the product owner while keeping an eye on high quality software development practices.

- Grow and guide your members on their career paths, you will be the one they look up to for guidance and help.

- Work along with engineers and leaders to promote collaboration between our various teams.

- Keep a solid mid- and long-term engineering vision.

Desired Qualifications:

- Experience coaching and guiding 5-10 engineers in 1-2 scrum teams.

- More than 3 years of management experience.

- Experience managing large scale applications/platforms (API Gateway) is a bonus.

Other Information:

Additional information on English Qualification

- Proficiency in English, with a business level of understanding (TOEIC Score 800 above or possess equivalent abilities).

- Japanese proficiency is a bonus but not mandatory.

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Languages:

English (Overall - 3 - Advanced), Japanese (Overall - 2 - Intermediate)