Backend Ruby Developer

We are looking for software engineers to develop and improve our backend code that is composed of several services and APIs to build the e-commerce, as well as to do video streaming and video encoding.

Company Overview

Rakuten TV is a leading streaming platform, available in 42 countries of Europe, which offers premium Hollywood and local content across various types of access: Transactional Video-on-demand (ie buy or rent movies), AVOD (advertising-based on-demand content) or FAST (linear free TV channels with ads). Rakuten TV forms part of Rakuten Group one of the worlds’ leading internet services companies, offering a wide variety of services for consumers and businesses, with a focus on e-commerce, fintech and digital content.

Our Rakuten mission:

Contribute to society by creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship. By providing high-quality services that help our users and partners grow, we aim to advance and enrich society.

About us:

• Backend stack is based on: Rails, 100% cloud, containers, k8s, SQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Varnish, and several popular background jobs solutions.

• We are obsessed with quality: we have automated code review for test coverage, maintainability and more. With a coverage of more than 95% (rspec), and do extensive code review. Also, we have a dedicated QA team that implements functional testing.

• We follow continuous integration and deploy to production several times every day.

• We are divided in small teams that follow SCRUM with one product manager and one QA engineer

• We use application monitoring solutions for profiling our apps. Error tracking solutions to gather all the production errors. And metrics collection to monitor our systems

What we expect from you:

• Develop and improve our Rails APIs and services.

• Write correct and clean code; consistently following stated best practices.

• Be able to participates in technical design of features.

• Have knowledge and experience implementing and using REST APIs

• Have knowledge and experience with relational databases, database design, SQL and ActiveRecord

• Knowledge and experience with NoSQL databases.

• Knowledge and experience with message queuing services.

• Good verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact with individuals at all levels, both internally and externally.

• A team player who can work well in a collaborative environment.

Nice to have:

• Experience with real production environments that requires 99.99% uptime

• Develop high-volume, highly available, and distributed production APIs

• Some experience on Domain Driven Design.

• Experience in HTTP caching solutions.

Some good reasons to apply:

• Opportunity to work for a leading company and a global technology conglomerate.

• Flexible working hours and hybrid model. Friday afternoon off! Intensive schedule during summer!

• Promotion possibilities in a fast growth environment.

• Interesting Training resources and Free Language Classes.

• Great work atmosphere, team activities and offsite’s.

• Wellbeing and Sustainable offices, 2 blocks away from Barcelona beach. Brand new and modern offices.

• Wellbeing and Mental Health platforms.

• Free coffee, juice and allowance to order lunch!

• Culturally diverse and inclusive, with people from approx. 24 different nationalities.

• Rakuten TV flex: Private Medical Insurance or extra money for meal card / commuting / kindergarten card.

Rakuten Shugi principles:

Rakuten Group has an unswerving commitment to building an egalitarian society by empowering individuals and companies to be successful in business and in life. We expect “Rakutenians” to model these 5 “Shugi” Principles of Success:

• Always improve, always advance. With enough determination and effort, you can achieve anything.

• Be passionately professional. Be determined to be the best.

• Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika. Success in business depends on making and executing concrete specific action plans.

• Maximize Customer Satisfaction. The greatest satisfaction in a service industry is to see our customers smile.

• Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! Always be conscious of time. Take charge, set clear goals, and engage yourself and your team.

Our D&I mission:

Rakuten’s corporate mission is to “contribute to society by creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship.” We foster a culture that provides equal opportunities to those who share this founding philosophy and take on the challenge to transform society, regardless gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion, culture, nationality, disability, or any other status. Diversity is one of Rakuten's core strategies and a driving force for innovation. To continue to provide innovative services, we strive to respect the uniqueness and values of every one of our Rakutenians, located all around the world, and to create environments where they are able to demonstrate their full potential.

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