Rakuten Kobo
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Rakuten Kobo is an online retailer of eBooks and audiobooks that also offers eReaders and a free reading app. Its catalogue holds more than 5 million titles, and the company hires software engineers, marketing managers and supply chain analysts. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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Rakuten Kobo Returns to U.S. Retail as Sales Double
Best Buy is now stocking Kobo's e-readers, which have been absent from U.S. retail since its partnership with Walmart ended in 2024. CEO Michael Tamblyn identifies several factors that have
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Instapaper is now on Rakuten Kobo e-readers - Good e-Reader
Instapaper is now available on Kobo e-readers with a new software update.
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Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration
Product updates, company announcements, and posts from the team building your favorite save-for-later app.
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Rakuten Kobo Should Discontinue the Elipsa E-Notebook - Good e-Reader
The Kobo Elipsa is the black sheep in their current gen lineup and should be put out to pasture, permanently.
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Rakuten Kobo reading habit survey reveals 54% reading less than 1 hr a week - Good e-Reader
The Rakuten Kobo reading habit survey in 2023 provides us with some interesting insight into the reading habits of users such as the amount of time they spend reading or the sort of book they prefer to read, and so on. As ChinaTimes reported, the survey h
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Rakuten Kobo over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
27
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
75/100
Languages
C#
JavaScript
Ruby
SQL
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ASP.NET Core
React.js
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MS SQL
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27 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$86k
Typical range
$60k – $103k
Open positions
5
5
Jobs
Junior
20%
Middle
40%
Senior
40%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $60k | $60k |
| Middle | 2 | $93k | $86k – $100k |
| Senior | 2 | $95k | $86k – $103k |
Highest paying role
Senior Manager, Performance Marketing
$103k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Rakuten Kobo
By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
7
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
Backend
38% ▼
Marketing
25% ▲
Finance
13% ▲
Operations
13% ▲
Industrial Engineering
13% ▲
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
3
Busiest office
Toronto
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Toronto
Canada
HQ
Kobo-ON-John Street
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 100% remote $87k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Backend, Finance
Dublin
Ireland
IE_Remote
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 100% remote
hires for Backend
Taipei
Taiwan
Kobo Taiwan Taipei
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote
hires for Industrial Engineering
Jobs
≈ $52k – $132k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (Ireland) • Full-Time • Dublin
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$65k – $100k per year • Equity • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Toronto
JavaScript
TypeScript
Ruby
C#
ASP.NET Core
Databases
RavenDB
RabbitMQ
MS SQL
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
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