- Role type: 12-month fixed-term contract (salary, not a daily rate)
- Location: Cremorne
- Ways of working: Hybrid, 3 days in office

About Rakuten

Rakuten Rewards gives millions of members real cash back every time they shop online, and solving that at scale is a genuinely hard technical problem. Most cashback platforms make members wait up to 60 days for affiliate networks to confirm a purchase, and even then the data isn't always accurate or on time. Rakuten Rewards is building the infrastructure to change that: instant cashback confirmation for members, while the verification happens behind the scenes.

The role

The team already uses AI seriously, self-healing systems, auto-generated documentation, and automated first-pass PR review, and you'll be expected to lean on it to move fast while still genuinely understanding what your code is doing.

About you

You move easily inside a larger, structured organisation, at home in tools like Jira and Confluence, and are confident operating with real autonomy once the problem is defined. You use AI to move faster, but you still care about understanding and standing behind the code you ship.

Why you should look at this one

Work on genuinely hard, high-scale backend problems, not incremental feature work. You'll be building the infrastructure behind instant cashback for millions of transactions a day, tackling affiliate validation,



merchant complexity, and system reliability at a scale most engineers don't get access to, let alone on a fixed-term contract.

You'll also get real ownership from day one. Direction here is about the "why," not the "how" - you're trusted to work it out yourself, backed by a team that's leaning hard into AI and automation without losing sight of engineering judgment. It's a chance to sharpen your skills against real production complexity, not sit in meetings about it.

The tech exposure is broad: Python, AWS, Docker, Snowflake, Kafka and agentic AI tooling, plus regular collaboration with engineering counterparts in the US and Canada. Twelve months here gives you a concentrated stretch of high-scale, high-visibility work you can take anywhere next.

And because it's fixed-term, there's no slow ramp-up or waiting your turn - you're expected to make an impact rapid, on problems that genuinely matter, in a team that will notice. If you want a focused run at meaningful engineering work rather than a long, quiet settling-in period, this is it.

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