Rakuten Group, Inc. is the largest e-commerce company in Japan, and third largest e-commerce marketplace company worldwide, with over 1.5 billion registered users worldwide. The Rakuten brand is recognized worldwide for its leadership and innovation, and provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas.
Rakuten Viki is a premier global entertainment streaming site where millions of people discover and consume primetime shows and movies subtitled in more than 200 languages, by our community of fans. With billions of videos viewed and more than 1 billion words translated, Viki brings global entertainment to fans everywhere!
The Web Team owns all our user-facing web properties such as, viki.com and soompi.com, at Viki. Tens of millions of users will be impacted by what you have built. Ours is a diverse stack of exciting web technologies like NextJS, Typescript, React, NodeJS, etc. We work on a range of challenging projects, such as building features like Video Playback, co-viewing, optimizing web performance, monitoring, creating in-house developer tools etc. The team works closely with the product, design, operations and analytics team to deliver better, faster and the best experiences for our users.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Responsible for creating beautiful, responsive, and performant user interfaces
- Develop and maintain fast, bug-free, and re-usable components for our internal React component library
- Improve and maintain a robust build tool system (WebPack, TurboPack, etc) to automate task like code compilation, minification, linting, and testing
- Collaborate with the Web team to establish and enforce coding standards for consistency and maintainability
- Working closely with the design, product and engineering teams to define and develop the company’s next-generation mobile-optimized web applications and new features
- Use the latest web technologies, work closely with our UX designers to translate product specifications into fully functional user interfaces
- Ensure cross-browser and multi-platform compatibility. Building & integrating tools to increase developer speed and efficiency
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science with 5-8 years of relevant work experience
- Expertise in semantic HTML, CSS and a solid understanding of core web and browser concepts
- Strong TypeScript and JavaScript fundamentals
- Professional experience with React or another modern JavaScript web framework (Angular, VueJS)
- Professional experience with NextJS or similar frameworks
- Experience with writing automated, end-to-end tests
- Experience with API integration
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines like Spinnaker
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
- Passion for technology, tools, environments, languages and systems
Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.
