Based in Singapore, reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Senior Engineer role will design, develop, and maintain one or more technical products of the Business Tools & Workflows team.
About the Business Tools & Workflows Team:
The Business Tools & Workflows 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
- 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 product delivery and deployment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Participating in multiple phases of software development life cycle of projects including technical design, implementation, testing, release by collaborating with Stakeholders, Product Managers, QAs, and engineering teams
- Improving and maintaining the existing application & workflows’ correctness and performance
- Identifying patterns in code and refactor them into modules that are easy to extend / reuse
- Ensuring code quality by reviewing PRs and enhancing code practices and guidelines
- Being part of on-call rotation and incident management
- Mentoring other engineers in the team
- Making sure the overall architecture and system documentations are kept up to date
- Contributing to and conducting system design reviews for systems that are being worked upon by you and/or the team, or the teams that end up impacting your systems
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 4-7 years of experience in developing production critical software. Any experience of building workflow based systems will be preferred
- Strong foundational knowledge of software concepts, design patterns, refactoring and automated testing
- Clear communication skills in English and are able to explain technical and non-technical concepts to the junior members of the team, as well as the peers and managers
- 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 or other popular ones. We use Ember.js.
- Programming languages such as Ruby, Go, Python, with willingness to take up Ruby and Rails understanding
- Relational DBs (Postgresql or Mysql or equivalent), and
- Caching technologies like Redis or equivalent
Preferred Qualification:
- Experiences in building or working with distributed systems and microservices
- Experience of building workflow based systems
- Experiences in working in product companies
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.