Rakuten Group, Inc. is the largest e-commerce company in Japan, and third largest e-commerce marketplace company worldwide, with over 1.5 billion registered users worldwide. The Rakuten brand is recognized worldwide for its leadership and innovation, and provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas.
Rakuten Viki is a premier global entertainment streaming site where millions of people discover and consume primetime shows and movies subtitled in more than 200 languages, by our community of fans. With billions of videos viewed and more than 1 billion words translated, Viki brings global entertainment to fans everywhere!
Based in Singapore, this Engineer, Multimedia role will report to the Engineering Manager, Multimedia.
About the Multimedia Team:
The Multimedia Team takes care of the entire media pipeline at Viki from content reception to client delivery, including video processing (encoding, multi-DRM encryption and packaging), cloud storage, multi-CDN management, playback quality control, subtitles update and end-user QoE. The team is instrumental in ensuring the delivery of all content on Viki’s platform and the first class watch experience for all users.
Key Responsibilities:
- Owns the end-to-end delivery of tasks/features from design, development, testing to release
- Delivers high quality code that is extensible, reliable, and performant
- Assesses technical complexity and risk, and communicates it effectively
- Review code changes requests to identify potential improvements and to prevent errors, and approve code reviews
- Contributes to software development guidelines and best practices as part of their work
- Communicate, document and provide guidance to junior engineers around the features delivered
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent fields
- 3-5 years of software engineering experience
- 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
Rakuten is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged.
