Rakuten | Android Engineer

Android Engineer

Department Overview
Rakuten Travel is the No.1 Online Travel Agency in Japan. We provide services in 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.

Responsibilities:
・Collaborate with Product Managers, UI/UX Designers and QA Engineers to build new features.
・Work together with API and other UI engineers to develop and maintain the best possible system for our large user base apps.
・Investigate, propose and work together to constantly evolve the technology of our Android apps.
・Keep up to date with the latest Android technologies in order to apply to our products.
・Refine technology/process/teamwork and look for ways to implement better solutions.

- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
- Strong ability to develop Android apps using Java or Kotlin with more than 3 years' experience
- Strong understanding of the latest features and development best practices for the Android platform
- Understanding of Android Architecture Components ie Data Binding, Live data, Navigation, Paging, Room, View Model, Work Manager, Dagger 2
- Hands on tools ie Studio, Intellij, Jenkins, Gradle
- Knowledge of Thirdparty libararies, KTX, Retrofit, Glide, Coroutine, Google Map - Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy
- Strong motivation for developing product with teams
- A desire to continually improve, suggest idea for organization, teams
- Strong UX and design sensibilities, doesn't sweat the small stuff
- Experience in Agile development

- RESTful API development experience (Spring boot)
- Building CI/CD development cycle experience
- Contributing t o open source
- Knowledge, Experience of travel domain
- Experience working for consumer facing product
- Experience of internationalization development
- Knowledge of Material design guidelines and available components