Backend Engineering Manager - Travel Development Department

Job Description:

Department Overview

Rakuten Travel is the No.1 Online Travel Agency in Japan. We provide services to leisure and also business travelers a variety of accommodation choices to meet all of their travel needs. Rakuten Travels mission is to provide quality experience to our travelers.

Position:

Why We Hire

Travel Development Department (TDD) works on 2 major projects to be competitive in the global market

• Continuous improvements on existing platform to maximize revenue and provide stability to over 100 million users.
• Renewal of existing platform to create a global scale platform

We are looking for a Backend Engineering Manager that can drive either of these projects, working alongside other similar driven Engineering Managers in a diverse environment.

If you enjoy working on high traffic and large-scale systems, we look forward to hearing from you.

Position Details

As an Engineering Manager for Backend, you’re expected to

• Manage a group of multiple teams, upwards to 20 people in a group
• Derive Group level KPIs from Department strategies, create action plans and execute
• Mentoring and growing future leaders and engineers of the organization through 1 on 1s and other HR tools.
• Be an Architect for the System in your group, recommending new technology stack, making tradeoffs in architectural decisions
• Be a System Owner, ensuring frameworks and processes are in place to enable stable day to day operations of the system
• Be a Project Manager, ensuring deliverables are completed on time by identifying and mitigating risks in advance.

Mandatory Qualifications:

Culture

• A shared belief of Rakuten Shugi

Management Experience

Have 3+ years of management experience including

• Recruiting future engineers
• Supporting career growth of engineers through training, goal settings and evaluation
• Motivating and ensuring well-being of engineers to maximize results
• Strong communication skills to work with multiple stakeholders like Product Managers and QA

Technical Skills Experience

Have the technical skills and experience on the following

• In depth knowledge of different Architecture Design patterns like microservice architecture, event driven architecture
• be accountable for maximizing quality/cost, achieving KPIs, production failures, and technical decisions of your team.
• be accountable for task quality through review and process

Development Environment Experience

Have in depth knowledge of travel's technology stack including

• Development: Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Config, Spring Cloud Sleuth, JUnit, Apache Maven, IntelliJ IDEA, Swagger
• Middleware: Oracle, Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data, MongoDB, Kafka, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat
• Infrastructure: Private cloud (RIaaS, Kubernetes)
• Monitoring: Jennifer, Zipkin, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Grafana

Project Management Experience

Be accountable for assigning tasks to members by clarifying the following input:

• Due date
• Priorities between multiple tasks
• Background and purposes (Why is this task necessary? Who will benefit from this?)
• Expected quality (Minimum requirements to resolve tasks / Which steps require reviews?)

Be accountable for task progress through asking the following questions

• Estimation: e.g. Can you share us expected end date/time?
• Possible impediment: e.g. What are problems, if any?
• Possible support: e.g. What can managers/the other member support, if any?
• Bottleneck: e.g. What do you wait for, if any?

Languages:

Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)

English (Overall - 4 - Fluent)

Languages:

English (Overall - 4 - Fluent), Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)