Software Engineer III - Personalization & Discovery Job Toronto Ontario Canada,Software Development

The Role

Rakuten Kobo is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack, to join our awesome development team that owns personalization and discovery. The team is responsible for ensuring that users enjoy a customized and curated experience whenever they visit our webstore, mobile apps, and e-readers. This is a remote position based in Toronto, Canada.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll drive the delivery of impactful initiatives and provide invaluable mentorship to the team. You’ll work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including the data department, to ensure alignment. Our engineers are enthusiastic and operate across the development spectrum, including front-end user interfaces, design system, back-end services, infrastructure, and deployment pipelines. We take full responsibility for our work, from driving requirements gathering and solutioning, to implementation and testing, through to releasing and monitoring.

Rakuten Kobo is looking for an engineer who shares these passions, takes pride in delivering high-quality solutions, and is eager to champion creativity.

Reporting to the Senior Software Engineering Manager, the Senior Software Engineer will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction and execution across all aspects of delivery. This includes leading architectural discussions, establishing best practices, navigating complex challenges, and ensuring the reliability and observability of our systems in production.

Responsibilities

Lead the development of front-end user experiences and back-end services to enable impactful features and functionality related to personalization and discovery.

Work closely with data engineers and data scientists to integrate engineering systems with data infrastructure and state-of-the-art machine learning models.

Enhance the performance of critical subsystems and event-driven architectures, pushing the boundaries of near real-time processing of complex computations.

Actively participate in the design system process to identify, implement, and document reusable components for our own in-house component library.

Take ownership of technical decisions and guide the team through complex challenges, ensuring best practices are followed and scalable solutions are implemented.

The Skillset

Required

Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree, or equivalent experience.

Ability to clearly communicate and collaborate with team members and cross-functional stakeholders. Comfortable presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Passionate about fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence through knowledge sharing, mentorship, meticulous code reviews, and constructive feedback.

Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on iterating quickly and improving continuously. Familiar with Agile methodologies, such as Kanban and Scrum.

Experience with ASP.NET MVC, WebAPIs, RESTful Services, .NET 8 Microservices.

High level of proficiency with object-oriented languages (C#), TypeScript, and SQL.

Familiar with message brokers (Rabbit

MQ) and service bus technology (NService

Bus).

Familiar with architectural patterns, such as API gateways and back-end for front-end.

Experience with relational (MSSQL) and non-relational (Raven

DB) databases.

Experience with implementing observability solutions (such as metrics, logs, traces).

Knowledgeable about testing strategies and techniques (unit, integration, end-to-end).

Experience with trunk-based development and version control systems, preferably Git.

Nice to Have

Familiar with front-end development frameworks (React, Next JS), styling libraries (Tailwind, Styled Components), and design systems (React Aria, Storybook).

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, leveraging Git Hub Workflows and Argo CD.

Familiar with communication protocols, including HTTP, RPC, and Web Sockets.

Experience with containerization and orchestration, using Docker and Kubernetes.

Experience with test automation using Selenium or Playwright.

Knowledge of scripting languages, such as Python or Ruby.

The Perks

Flexible hours and hybrid remote working environment

Subsidized in-office lunches

Full benefits starting from your first day

Paid Volunteer days, unlimited sick days, and 3% RRSP matching

Monthly commuting allowance for those who are hybrid

Lifestyle spending account

Talent and development training budget

Free Kobo device + free weekly e-book or audiobook

Weekly Kobo Tech University sessions

Maternity/paternity leave top up

Dog friendly office


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