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How Rakuten Rewards hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
37 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Rakuten Rewards scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 37 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Rakuten Rewards, formerly known as Ebates, is a cash-back shopping service that pays members a share of their spending at thousands of partner online retailers in the United States and Canada. Members earn cash back or Rakuten points through its website, browser extension and mobile app, and retailers pay the company commissions on referred sales. It has been part of the Japanese Rakuten Group since 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, United States.

News

News noteノート 26 days ago
Rakuten Group 4755 Is 30GB of Rakuten Mobile free with shareholder benefits? A thorough explanation of the conditions for up to 12 months and the 'points you'll regret not knowing' 2026 EditionUS STOCKS NAVI
"I wonder if I could make my monthly smartphone bill a little cheaper..."Have you ever thought that?At 3,000 yen a month, that's 36,000 yen a year.At 5,000 yen a month, that's 60,000 yen a year.Even if each individual payment doesn't feel that large, the
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News YahooFinance 6 months ago
A Look At Rakuten Group (TSE:4755) Valuation After Recent Mixed Share Performance
Recent share performance and business snapshot Rakuten Group (TSE:4755) has drawn investor attention after a mixed run in its share price, with a gain over the past month contrasted by weaker performance in the past 3 months and year to date. The company
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News CNBC 11 months ago
Rakuten shopping portal review: Earn cash back, Amex points or Bilt Points
Rakuten lets you earn rewards on top of what you get with a credit card.
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News mediapost 1 year ago
MediaDailyNews: Rakuten Group Releases Affiliate Plans For Full-Funnel AI Agents
Rakuten Group Releases Affiliate Plans For Full-Funnel AI Agents - 07/31/2025
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News thepointsguy 1 year ago
Deal alert: Earn $400 cash back at SoFi on Wednesday only with Rakuten - The Points Guy
Rakuten is offering $400 cash back at SoFi this week, plus a special deal every Wednesday this summer.
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News BI Strategy 1 year ago
Best Money Earning Apps in 2025
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Rakuten Rewards over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
96
Postings analysed
20
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL30%
Python30%
Java20%
JavaScript15%
Frameworks & libraries
JUnit10%
CryptoKit5%
Dagger5%
Espresso5%
Databases
Snowflake15%
PostgreSQL10%
MySQL5%
Redis5%
Cloud & platforms
GitHub20%
Tableau20%
AWS15%
Apache Kafka15%
AI & ML
Claude20%
LLM15%
ChatGPT5%
GPT-45%
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Full Rakuten Rewards tech stack 96 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$233k
Typical range
$135k – $334k
Open positions
8
8 Jobs
Middle 37.5%
Senior 37.5%
Architect 25%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 3 $164k $135k – $164k
Senior 3 $255k $255k – $294k
Architect 2 $272k $211k – $334k
Highest paying role VP, Business Intelligence & Insights $334k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Rakuten Rewards By role, level and city, against the market · 8 jobs with pay

Products

Viber
Viber is the messaging and calling application Rakuten acquired in 2014. It has particularly strong positions in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.
viber.com
Securities
Rakuten Securities is a major Japanese online brokerage offering equities, funds and foreign exchange. It benefits from cross-selling into the group's membership base.
rakuten.com
Card
Rakuten Card is one of Japan's most widely held credit cards, tightly integrated with the group's points programme. It anchors the fintech segment alongside the bank and securities businesses.
rakuten.com
Mobile
Rakuten Mobile is Japan's fourth mobile network operator, built on a fully virtualised cloud-native architecture. The company also sells that architecture to other operators as Rakuten Symphony.
rakuten.com
Ichiba
Rakuten Ichiba is Japan's largest online shopping mall, where merchants operate branded storefronts. Its loyalty points programme is the connective tissue of the whole group.
rakuten.co.jp

People

Hiroshi Mikitani
Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Hiroshi Mikitani founded Rakuten in 1997 after leaving the Industrial Bank of Japan, and still leads it. He made English the company's internal working language in a widely studied reorganisation.
Kentaro Hyakuno
Director & Chief Operating Officer
Kentaro Hyakuno serves as chief operating officer of Rakuten Group. He has held senior operating roles across its commerce and fintech businesses.
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
9
2 opened / 10 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
40 days
faster than 33% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~15 hours
10/15/2026
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Finance
19% ▲
Design
14%
QA
10% ▲
Product
10% ▼
Marketing
10% ▲
Sales
10% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Google Workspace to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack Sep 2026
Added BigQuery to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack Sep 2026
New location: Schaumburg Sep 2026
Added ChatGPT to stack Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack Sep 2026
Added Multi-Agent Systems to stack Sep 2026
Added Redis to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Mateo
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San Mateo United States
HQ
Crimson House West
5 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $210k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, QA
seen since May 2026 job postings
San Francisco United States
Sales office
Crimson House West
4 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 1000-5000 est. staff $254k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Marketing, Sales
seen since May 2026 job postings
New York United States
SF-Mission St
1 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 1000-5000 est. staff $294k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Toronto Canada
CN-Yonge Sheppard Center
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff
hires for Mobile
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Earlier presence
Schaumburg, United States 1 open roles · last posting Jul 2026

Jobs

$96k – $164k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Mateo
Java
SQL
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
AI Agents
Mobile
JUnit
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
QA
TestNG
Pytest
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≈ $64k – $184k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 15+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Toronto
Java
Kotlin
RxJava
Kotlin
Hilt
Dagger
Kotlin Coroutines
AI/ML
Context Engineering
Machine Learning
Mobile
JUnit
Jetpack Compose
Android SDK
MVVM
Clean Architecture
Espresso
MVP
Dependency Injection
Reactive Programming
Modularization
Robolectric
DevOps
GitHub
Analytics
A/B Testing
Management
Agile
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$96k – $164k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Mateo
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
Claude
AI Agents
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
Rest API
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Design
Figma
QA
BrowserStack
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