Software Engineer III - Personalization & Discovery
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Toronto, Ontario, M5A, Canada
Listing for:
WomenTech Network
Remote/Work from Home
position
Listed on 2026-01-02
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Senior Developer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Description:
Here at Rakuten Kobo Inc. we offer a casual working start-up environment and a group of friendly and talented individuals. Our employees rank us highly in terms of commitment to work/life balance. We realize that for our people to be innovative, creative and passionate they need to feel valued and supported. We believe in rewarding all our employees with competitive salaries, performance based annual bonuses, stock options and training opportunities.
If you’re looking for a company that inspires passion, personal, and professional growth – join Kobo and come help us on our mission of making reading lives better.
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 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
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