Jobs at Rakuten Kobo

Own the strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle of eCommerce personalization and recommendation features. Partner with Data, R&D, UX, research, and Marketing teams to improve discovery, conversion, average order value, and retention. Responsibilities include user segmentation, recommendation engine optimization, product documentation, backlog management, experimentation, A/B testing, performance analysis, stakeholder communication, and continuous product improvement.

Develop and maintain Kobo’s iOS app using Swift and SwiftUI. Own features from inception through release, fix issues, maintain code quality, and collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and QA. The role involves complex UI development, Swift concurrency, feature delivery, and cross-functional requirements clarification. Familiarity with unidirectional architecture, functional programming, UIKit, Objective-C, modularization, and CI improvements is preferred.

Leads approximately 20 engineers and testers across three Agile teams developing software for Kobo eReaders. Responsibilities include technical delivery from system design through incident response, mentorship, performance management, cross-functional collaboration, process improvement, strategic technical advocacy, and coordinating larger projects across teams. The role requires substantial software engineering and people leadership experience, preferably with C++, embedded systems, Linux, consumer devices, and AI-assisted development workflows.

Supports software quality assurance for Kobo eReader software and devices through functional, regression, integration, and system testing. Creates and executes test cases, documents defects, validates fixes, and assists with release quality activities. Maintains test lab devices, software builds, tools, inventories, and testing environments while troubleshooting issues and collecting diagnostic logs. Collaborates with QA engineers, developers, product managers, and other partners in an Agile development environment.

Manage and optimize global paid search campaigns across Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising for devices, subscriptions, and digital content. Own budgets, pacing, bidding, targeting, campaign structures, testing, reporting, and performance improvements across markets. Partner with SEO, analytics, creative, eCommerce, media, and agencies to improve CPA, CAC, ROAS, revenue, conversion, profitability, and contribution margin.