Backend Engineering Manager - Travel Development Department (TDD)

Description :Department OverviewRakuten Travel is the No.1 Online Travel Agency in Japan. We provide services to leisure and also business travelers a variety of accommodation choices to meet all of their travel needs. Rakuten Travels mission is to provide quality experience to our travelers.Position:Why We HireTravel Development Department (TDD) works on 2 major projects to be competitive in the global marketContinuous improvements on existing platform to maximize revenue and provide stability to over 100 million users.Renewal of existing platform to create a global scale platformWe are looking for a Backend Engineering Manager that can drive either of these projects, working alongside other similar driven Engineering Managers in a diverse environment.If you enjoy working on high traffic and large-scale systems, we look forward to hearing from you. Position DetailsAs an Engineering Manager for Backend, you’re expected toManage a group of multiple teams, upwards to 20 people in a groupDerive Group level KPIs from Department strategies, create action plans and executeMentoring and growing future leaders and engineers of the organization through 1 on 1s and other HR tools.Be an Architect for the System in your group, recommending new technology stack, making tradeoffs in architectural decisionsBe a System Owner, ensuring frameworks and processes are in place to enable stable day to day operations of the systemBe a Project Manager, ensuring deliverables are completed on time by identifying and mitigating risks in advance.Mandatory Qualifications:CultureA shared belief of Rakuten ShugiManagement ExperienceHave 3+ years of management experience includingRecruiting future engineersSupporting career growth of engineers through training, goal settings and evaluationMotivating and ensuring well-being of engineers to maximize resultsStrong communication skills to work with multiple stakeholders like Product Managers and QATechnical Skills ExperienceHave the technical skills and experience on the followingIn depth knowledge of different Architecture Design patterns like microservice architecture, event driven architecturebe accountable for maximizing quality/cost, achieving KPIs, production failures, and technical decisions of your team.be accountable for task quality through review and processDevelopment Environment ExperienceHave in depth knowledge of travel's technology stack includingDevelopment: Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Config, Spring Cloud Sleuth, JUnit, Apache Maven, IntelliJ IDEA, SwaggerMiddleware: Oracle, Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data, MongoDB, Kafka, Apache HTTP Server, Apache TomcatInfrastructure: Private cloud (RIaaS, Kubernetes)Monitoring: Jennifer, Zipkin, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), GrafanaProject Management ExperienceBe accountable for assigning tasks to members by clarifying the following input:Due datePriorities between multiple tasksBackground and purposes (Why is this task necessary? Who will benefit from this?)Expected quality (Minimum requirements to resolve tasks / Which steps require reviews?)Be accountable for task progress through asking the following questionsEstimation: e.g. Can you share us expected end date/time?Possible impediment: e.g. What are problems, if any?Possible support: e.g. What can managers/the other member support, if any?Bottleneck: e.g. What do you wait for, if any?Languages:Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)English (Overall - 4 - Fluent)Languages:English (Overall - 4 - Fluent), Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)