Rakuten tech stack

Rakuten builds mostly with SQL, Python, JavaScript, Java. Its stack also includes GCP, AWS, MySQL, Redis. SQL is named in 80 of the 280 job postings Rakuten published in the last 12 months (29%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Rakuten, updated Sep 26, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 26, 2026
Technologies in use
275
Postings analysed
280
Open now
280
Modernity
80 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Rakuten use?

SQL is named in 29% of job postings at Rakuten, followed by Python (24%), JavaScript (15%), Java (15%).

SQL 80 29% required in 99% · 80 open now · since Apr 2026
Python 68 24% required in 97% · 68 open now · since Feb 2026
JavaScript 43 15% required in 77% · 43 open now · since Oct 2025
Java 42 15% required in 67% · 42 open now · since Apr 2026
TypeScript 14 5% required in 86% · 14 open now · since Oct 2025
PHP 12 4% required in 83% · 12 open now · since Jun 2026
Go 8 3% required in 75% · 8 open now · since Jun 2026
Node JS 7 3% required in 43% · 7 open now · since Apr 2026
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ABAP6
Apex4
Bash2
COBOL2
Groovy2
Kotlin2
PowerShell2
Sass2
C#2
Assembly1
C++1
Perl1
Ruby1
Swift1

What frameworks and libraries does Rakuten use?

PoC Library is named in 5% of job postings at Rakuten, followed by React.js (5%), Spring Boot (4%), Spring Framework (3%).

PoC Library 13 5% required in 100% · 13 open now · since Apr 2026
React.js 13 5% required in 69% · 13 open now · since Oct 2025
Spring Boot 12 4% required in 100% · 12 open now · since Jun 2026
Spring Framework 7 3% required in 86% · 7 open now · since Apr 2026
JUnit 7 3% required in 71% · 7 open now · since Jun 2026
Hadoop 6 2% required in 33% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
Angular 5 2% required in 40% · 5 open now · since Apr 2026
Commander.js 4 1% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Sep 2026
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LangChain4
Next.js4
Vue.js4
LangGraph3
Playwright3
Spring Cloud3
Appium2
Cypress2
NumPy2
PyTorch2
Scikit-learn2
Selenium2
AutoGen1
CUDA1
Catalyst1
CodeIgniter1
CrewAI1
DeepSpeed1
FSDP1
Flask1
Flink1
Jest1
LlamaIndex1
Material UI1
Megatron-LM1
NCCL1
Nuxt.js1
Pandas1
Pytest1
React Native1
Redux1
SAP UI51

And 8 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Rakuten use?

MySQL is named in 9% of job postings at Rakuten, followed by Redis (6%), BigQuery (5%), Google BigQuery (5%).

MySQL 25 9% required in 88% · 25 open now · since May 2026
Redis 16 6% required in 69% · 16 open now · since May 2026
BigQuery 13 5% required in 100% · 13 open now · since Jun 2026
Google BigQuery 13 5% required in 100% · 13 open now · since Jun 2026
Oracle 13 5% required in 100% · 13 open now · since May 2026
Cassandra 10 4% required in 60% · 10 open now · since May 2026
MariaDB 8 3% required in 100% · 8 open now · since May 2026
PostgreSQL 6 2% required in 100% · 6 open now · since May 2026
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Couchbase6
ElasticSearch4
Presto4
Snowflake3
ClickHouse3
Amazon Aurora2
Teradata2
Aerospike1
DuckDB1
Google Cloud Spanner1
MS SQL1
Memcached1
TiDB1
Dgraph1

What cloud and platforms does Rakuten use?

GCP is named in 18% of job postings at Rakuten, followed by AWS (15%), Azure (14%), Kubernetes (12%).

GCP 50 18% required in 92% · 50 open now · since Feb 2026
AWS 42 15% required in 93% · 42 open now · since Feb 2026
Azure 38 14% required in 89% · 38 open now · since Apr 2026
Kubernetes 34 12% required in 85% · 34 open now · since Apr 2026
Linux 29 10% required in 93% · 29 open now · since Feb 2026
Tableau 28 10% required in 89% · 28 open now · since May 2026
Apache Kafka 18 6% required in 67% · 18 open now · since Jun 2026
Domo 16 6% required in 94% · 16 open now · since May 2026
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Grafana13
Figma12
Windows12
GitHub Actions9
RabbitMQ9
Looker8
Kibana7
Power BI7
MicroStrategy7
Active Directory5
PagerDuty5
Unix5
VMWare5
SonarQube5
Spark5
Databricks4
Datadog4
SAP BTP4
SAP Fiori4
SIEM4
Windows Server4
GitHub4
GitLab CI3
Google Cloud Run3
Langfuse3
Vertex AI3
vLLM3
Bitbucket2
DLP2
MuleSoft2
New Relic2
Okta2

And 23 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Rakuten use?

Jenkins is named in 11% of job postings at Rakuten, followed by Docker (10%), Microsoft Excel (8%), Git (6%).

Jenkins 30 11% required in 90% · 30 open now · since Oct 2025
Docker 28 10% required in 89% · 28 open now · since Apr 2026
Microsoft Excel 21 8% required in 100% · 21 open now · since Apr 2026
Git 17 6% required in 88% · 17 open now · since Oct 2025
Terraform 15 5% required in 100% · 15 open now · since May 2026
Claude Code 12 4% required in 100% · 12 open now · since Apr 2026
Ansible 11 4% required in 100% · 11 open now · since Apr 2026
Prometheus 10 4% required in 100% · 10 open now · since Apr 2026
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Copilot8
Adobe Photoshop6
Cursor5
GraphQL5
Nginx5
Apache HTTP Server4
Apache Tomcat4
Logstash4
Model Context Protocol4
Rest API4
Adobe XD3
Google ADK3
Gradle3
Maven3
Webpack3
ArgoCD2
Chef2
CircleCI2
Helm2
Kong2
Vite2
A2A1
Adobe Illustrator1
Alteryx1
Argo Workflows1
AutoCAD1
Filebeat1
FortiGate1
Gatling1
HashiCorp Vault1
Hyper-V1
Locust1

And 18 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Rakuten use?

LLM is named in 8% of job postings at Rakuten, followed by ChatGPT (1%), Claude (1%), LoRA (<1%).

LLM 23 8% required in 100% · 23 open now · since Jun 2026
ChatGPT 4 1% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
Claude 4 1% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
LoRA 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
PEFT 1 <1% optional · 1 open now · since Aug 2026

Which engineering practices does Rakuten ask for?

CI/CD is named in 17% of job postings at Rakuten, followed by Machine Learning (13%), AI Agents (6%), A/B Testing (5%).

CI/CD 48 17% required in 92% · 48 open now · since Apr 2026
Machine Learning 35 13% required in 100% · 35 open now · since Apr 2026
AI Agents 18 6% required in 100% · 18 open now · since Jan 2026
A/B Testing 13 5% required in 100% · 13 open now · since Jul 2026
Edge AI 9 3% required in 100% · 9 open now · since Jul 2026
Incident Management 9 3% required in 100% · 9 open now · since May 2026
IAM 8 3% required in 100% · 8 open now · since May 2026
Prompt Engineering 8 3% required in 100% · 8 open now · since Jun 2026
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Wi-Fi8
FinOps7
RAG7
TCP/IP7
ETL/ELT7
LLM Guardrails6
Platform Engineering5
SLI/SLO/SLA5
DNS4
Recommender Systems4
VPN4
AIOps3
Function Calling3
Hallucination3
Material Design3
Semantic Search3
Tool Use3
NLP3
Configuration Management2
DHCP2
Fine-tuning2
GitOps2
Master Data Management2
SRE2
Self-Healing2
Structured Outputs2
Agentic Workflows1
Anomaly Detection1
BGP1
CSS Modules1
Chain-of-Thought1
Chaos Engineering1

And 17 more, each named in fewer postings.

What does each Rakuten team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

Management

24 postings
SQL6
Python4
Domo3
Java3
Azure2
ChatGPT2

Sales

24 postings
Microsoft Excel4
PoC Library4
Python4
Cassandra2
Couchbase2
Domo2

Marketing

22 postings
SQL15
Python7
Tableau5
Domo3
JavaScript3
Teradata2

DevOps

21 postings
GCP11
AWS10
Azure10
Linux9
Python9
Kubernetes8

Product

20 postings
SQL9
LLM3
Tableau3
Claude2
Claude Code2
Looker2

Backend

20 postings
Jenkins13
Docker12
Kubernetes10
Java9
MySQL9
Spring Boot9

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How is the Rakuten stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
KotlinSep 2026
Master Data ManagementSep 2026
ArgoCDSep 2026
HelmSep 2026
ViteSep 2026
Commander.jsSep 2026
Amazon AuroraSep 2026
COBOLSep 2026
Rising
SQL13% → 31%
Tableau3% → 11%
Machine Learning7% → 14%
Git0% → 7%
A/B Testing0% → 5%
Figma0% → 5%
Apache Kafka3% → 7%
Edge AI0% → 4%
Falling
CI/CD37% → 15%
Jenkins20% → 9%
Incident Management13% → 2%
GCP27% → 17%
Azure23% → 13%
SAP BTP10% → 0%
Apex10% → 0%
AWS23% → 14%
Not named for 6 months
BashFeb 2026

How modern is the Rakuten stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 80/100

Rakuten scores 80 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 5; legacy ones: 0.

Questions about the Rakuten tech stack

What programming languages does Rakuten use?

The languages named in Rakuten job postings are SQL (29%), Python (24%), JavaScript (15%), Java (15%), TypeScript (5%), as a share of the 280 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Rakuten use PoC Library?

Yes. PoC Library is named in 13 of 280 job postings (5%) and required in 13 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Rakuten use?

The cloud and platforms named in Rakuten job postings are GCP (50), AWS (42), Azure (38) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Management job at Rakuten?

Management postings at Rakuten most often require SQL (6), Python (4), Domo (3), Java (3), out of 24 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Rakuten tech stack changing?

Yes. Kotlin, Master Data Management, ArgoCD, Helm first appeared in Rakuten job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Rakuten tech stack?

Rakuten scores 80 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 5; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Rakuten tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Rakuten publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 280 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Sep 26, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Rakuten tech stack: 275 technologies from 280 job postings", as of Sep 26, 2026. https://alion.io/company/rakuten-5/technologies

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