SOFTWARE ENGINEER - MONITORING (H/F)

Here at Rakuten Kobo Inc. we offer a casual working start-up environment and a group of friendly and talented individuals. 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 Toronto is looking for a Software Engineer III to join our amazing Web team! 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 Software Engineer III plays a vital role in all aspects of delivery from design, planning and implementation through to releasing and monitoring.
Lead the development of user-centric web applications focusing on modern React (Next.js) front-end architecture while overseeing and contributing to the .NET back-end services that support them.
Propose designs and Proof of Concepts to Architecture team and work with the team to deliver the implementation to Production
Take ownership of technical decisions and guide the team through complex challenges, ensuring best practices and maintainable solutions.
Mentor and coach junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence through regular code reviews and knowledge sharing.
Computer Science or Computer Engineering Degree (or equivalent experience)
Highly technical and able to communicate well with engineers and cross-functional team members
Experience building web components with REACT library (preferably Next) and tailwind CSS
Ample knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS/SCSS
C#, ASP.NET MVC, WebAPI , RESTful Services, .Net 8 Microservices
SOLID Principles and Practices, IoC & TDD
MS SQL, RavenDb , EntityFramework
Some experience with service bus technology e.g. Experienced and knowledgeable in CI/CD and different testing strategies and techniques ( Unit, Integration, UI tests)
Working in an Agile environment and team
Scrum Master or Team Lead experience
Test automation using Selenium Webdriver or Playwright
Working with GitHub or Azure DevOps
Knowledge of Ruby or other scripting languages
Flexible hours and remote working environment

• 4 extended summer long weekends
• Flexible health spending account
• Training budget + Udemy account
• Maternity/paternity leave top up
• Daily lunch credit when in-office and in-office snacks
• Dog friendly office

Owned by Tokyo-based Rakuten and headquartered in Toronto, Rakuten Kobo Inc. is one of the most advanced global ecommerce companies, with the world’s most innovative eReading services offering more than 6 million eBooks and audiobooks to 30 million + customers in 190 countries. Kobo delivers the best digital reading experience through creative innovation, award-winning eReaders , and top-ranking mobile apps. Accessibility accommodations for candidates with disabilities participating in the selection process are available on request. Beware of fraudulent job offers claiming to be from Rakuten. Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.
Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Accessibility accommodations for candidates with disabilities participating in the selection process are available on request. Beware of fraudulent job offers claiming to be from Rakuten. At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the Compensation (base salary + discretionary bonus) for this role to be within the range shown below. The successful applicant for this role will be eligible for stock options, health, vision, dental insurance, RRSP matching, Personal Time Off (PTO), Volunteer Time Off (VTO), and other employee benefits as the company implements.
CAD $107,957.00 - 157,957.00 annually