Engineer Lead, Rakuten Ichiba - Mall Section No.1, EC Marketplace Development Department (ECMPD)

Rakuten Group, Inc.

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Tokyo, Japan Until 8/23/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted May 27, 2025 Last posted July 10, 2025
Job description

Job Description:

Department Overview

EC Marketplace Development Department (ECMPD) is a tech division under Rakuten Commerce & Marketing Company of Rakuten Group, Inc. We are responsible for developing and enhancing our online system to support our core business, Rakuten Ichiba.

Rakuten Ichiba is one of the largest internet shopping malls in Japan with 5.6 trillion sales in 2022 and our business is growing year on year. We aim to provide the best shopping entertainment for our shoppers and empower our partners in Rakuten Ichiba.

Position:

Why We Hire

While this service is growing steadily, we need a more robust and scalable system to drive further growth. We are also committed to providing the best user experience possible. This requires a stronger team and higher engineering skills, and we need more experienced Engineer to work with us as part of our development team.

 

Position Details

- Lead system software development team as a Senior Engineer for development/operational product of navigation services in Rakuten Ichiba

- Project planning (Create milestone, system delivery and development budget)

- Project management (Progress management, Reporting and Issue management)

- Communication with stakeholders (Negotiation with other teams, and scheduling)

- QA management (Arrangement with QA team, Define QA scope, Scheduling)

  

Mandatory Qualifications:

- Experience in managing organization involved in system software development

- People management experience: leadership of multicultural teams with 5+ members

- Strong sense of ownership and accountability: particularly during production issue management

- Excellent problem solving and communication skill

- Experience of analyzing issues and solution proposal

- Excellent documentation skill

- English communication skill

  

Desired Qualifications:

- Extensive experience in building and operating high-traffic, critical platforms

- Good understanding of both business and technology to make proper decisions

- Experience of budget/cost management

- Experience of JIRA, Confluence, etc.

  

Other Information:

Additional information on English Qualification
TOEIC Score 800 above or possess equivalent abilities

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Languages:

English (Overall - 4 - Fluent), Japanese (Overall - 2 - Intermediate)
About this role

Summary

Lead software development team for scalable e-commerce platform with project planning and stakeholder communication

Job title

Engineer Lead, Rakuten Ichiba - Mall Section No.1, EC Marketplace Development Department (ECMPD)

Experience level

5+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Tokyo, Japan, on-site; remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

organization managementpeople managementownershipproblem solvingcommunicationissue analysisdocumentationenglish

Preferred skills

high-traffic platformbusiness understandingtechnology decisionsbudget managementJIRAConfluence

Specializations

system developmentproject managementstakeholder communicationQA management
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Tokyo, Japan

On-site City