Rakuten - Engineering Manager

- Responsible for End to end ownership of product including requirement analysis, design, coding, deployment, dev-ops and support

- Partner with Product owners, architects, engineers as well as senior engineering leaders to develop and deliver highly scalable platform services.

- Work closely with product managers and global stakeholders to help define Product Roadmap with a focus on performance, scale and quality of products.

- Critically analyze the requirements, architectures, designs and propose alternative solutions

- Continuously improve the operations, quality and agility of team

- Develop broad domain and technical knowledge

- Leading and managing projects and day to day activities of the team in an fast paced environment

- Proposing and driving key technology decisions with senior technology leaders

- Create a high-performance culture that exceeds expectations, deliver value and create impact

- Hire, coach, mentor talented engineers to achieve goals in challenging environment

- Drive automated solutions that enable better efficiency and process improvement

- Responsible for orchestration & management during production troubles

- Responsible for team management, mentoring and hiring engineering task force and managing the budget for the responsible team

Minimum Qualifications :

- 12+ years' experience, with at least 2-3 years as Engineering Manager / Lead.

- Proven track record of delivering high availability, high performance, largescale complex applications in FinTech domain.

- Hands-on with Java, JEE ecosystem, web services architecture, design patterns and frameworks.

- Extensive experience in following web technologies: J2EE, Kotlin, NodeJS, REST, Kafka, JSON, Cassandra, MySQL, Spring Boot, Redis, Docker and Kubernetes.

- Deep understanding of Reliability, Availability and Scalability

- Good understanding of development practices and tools in devops, release engineering and infrastructure management (GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes etc).

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.

- Experience in developing and leading teams building solution with cloud technologies(GCP/AWS)

- Experience in leading and troubleshooting service impacting incidents across large-scale systems

- Excellent written and communication skills with strong stakeholder management skills

- Worked on migration project from monolith to microservices based systems.

- Experience with SRE, operational architectures, observability, monitoring aspects