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 community tools, 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 are responsible for a variety of systems. Our API is built using a variety of technologies such as Go, Node, Redis, Ruby, RabbitMq and PostgreSql. We are scaling and adding a number of interesting features such as Search, Video Playback, Community Driven Tools. We manage our own deployments (think Docker, DataDog, Spinnaker) and are responsible for end-to-end delivery of the components.
Responsibilities:
- 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
- Collaborate with the Web team to establish and enforce coding standards for consistency and maintainability
- Focus on code quality and testability
- Improve application performance
Requirements:
- Strong TypeScript and JavaScript fundamentals
- Expertise in semantic HTML, CSS and a solid understanding of core web and browser concepts
- Experience in foundational aspects of either React, VueJS, or Angular is required
- Experience with writing automated, end-to-end tests
- Golang experience is a bonus, but expert knowledge in another language will be considered
- Operational experience in deploying, scalability optimization, continuous delivery, and automation
- Agile and Data Driven mindset
Preferred Qualification:
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field
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.
