Software Engineer III

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 Ireland is looking for a Software Engineer III to join our amazing Web team! This is a remote position based in Dublin, Ireland.  

You will be joining one of our development strike teams to deliver awesome new features for our many users to enjoy.   

Our engineers are enthusiastic and operate across the development spectrum, from front-end to back-end to CI/CD and infrastructure. We take full responsibility for our work, from requirements gathering and solutioning, to implementation and testing, to deploying and monitoring how our code behaves in front of real customers. Kobo is looking for an engineer who shares these passions and is proud of the work they do.  

Reporting to the Software Engineering Manager, the Full Stack Software Engineer III plays a vital role in all aspects of delivery from design, planning and implementation through to releasing and monitoring.  

Responsibilities:  

• Building quality software using the full Microsoft stack including MVC Web Applications, Web API services, .Net 8 microservices and much more.  
• Propose designs and Proof of Concepts to Architecture team and work with the team to deliver the implementation to Production. 
• Participate in code reviews; happy to give and receive constructive feedback. 
• Communicate clearly and effectively with teammates, Business stakeholders and other development teams in Kobo. 
• Mentoring more junior team members of the team and conducting code reviews.  

The Skillset:  

Required 

• Computer Science or Computer Engineering Degree (or equivalent experience) 
• Highly technical and able to communicate well with engineers and cross-functional team members 
• Experience with C#, ASP.NET MVC, WebAPI, RESTful Services, .Net 8 Microservices 
• Experience with SOLID Principles and Practices, IoC & TDD. 
• Some experience with service bus technology e.g. NServiceBus, RabbitMQ. 
• Strong experience with React and modern JavaScript/CSS frameworks. 
• Experience with Git. 
• Experience with designing, implementing, and optimizing observability solutions (metrics, logs, traces). 
• Experienced and knowledgeable in CI/CD and different testing strategies and techniques (Unit, Integration, UI tests), including experience with ArgoCD. 
• Comfortable with and enthusiastic about learning new technologies.  

Nice to Haves 

• Working in an Agile environment and teamDocker, Solr, Kubernetes 
• Test automation using Selenium Webdriver or Playwright 
• Working with GitHub or Azure DevOps 
• Knowledge of Ruby or other scripting languages 
• Experience with MS SQL, RavenDb, EntityFramework.   

The Perks

• Flexible hours and remote working environment
• 4 extra long weekends around bank holiday weekends
• Full benefits starting from your first day
• Paid volunteer days, unlimited sick days
• 4% employer pension contribution
• Flexible spending account
• Talent and development training budget
• Free Kobo device + free weekly eBook or audiobook
• Weekly Kobo Spark sessions
• Maternity/paternity leave top-up

About Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Rakuten Kobo Inc. is the world’s digital bookseller created by and for booklovers. Owned by Tokyo-based Rakuten Group, Inc. and headquartered in Toronto, Rakuten Kobo’s millions of worldwide users can read anytime, anywhere, and on any device. With a mission to make reading lives better for all, Rakuten Kobo connects readers to stories using thoughtful and personalized curation of eBooks and audiobooks, and the best dedicated eReaders and apps for reading. With the singular focus of making reading lives the best they can be, Kobo’s open platform allows people to fit reading into more moments in their busy lives. To learn more about Rakuten Kobo, visit www.kobo.com.

Rakuten Kobo Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Accessibility accommodations for candidates with disabilities participating in the selection process are available on request. Any information received related to accommodation needs of applicants will be addressed confidentially.  

Rakuten Kobo would like to thank all applicants for their interest in this role however only qualified candidates will be shortlisted.  

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