Rakuten | Front-end Engineer

Front-end Engineer

Department Overview
The Leisure Product Department (LPD) is handling a lineup of lifestyle and leisure related services, some of them being category leaders in the Japanese market. We aim at growing globally and becoming world leaders through innovation and technology. In order to achieve this, we are now looking for globally minded engineers to contribute to the development of our services.

Here are some of the services we are handling:
Rakuten GORA : Golf course reservation service

Why We Hire
Services in LPD are growing rapidly hence to support the business growth we need to have a robust and scalable system.
Additionally, we are committed to give the best user experience on our services.
That requires a bigger team and a high level of engineering skill.

With this goal we are planning to increase the number of employees.

Position Details
We are looking for an experienced frontend engineer who has a passion for working on complex/large systems and understands the importance of maintaining and supporting one as you will be working on developing user-facing web applications and components to support continuous improvement and growth our systems. 

You will be joining one of our teams of diversely skilled engineers who actively support the maintenance of existing Rakuten system related to lifestyle and leisure related services.

As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to
・Design & Develop frontend features on small to large scale systems
・Learn about robust, secure, modular and maintainable code of frontend.
・Learn about and perform load/performance tests on high access systems
・Interact and work with members from other development teams, Product Managers, UX/UI designers and QA engineers

A commitment to team collaboration, good communication and delivering quality product is important

- Over 5 years experience of web application development with any of the following languages: Javascript or Typescript
- Proficient in HTML, CSS, JS
- Experience with JS frameworks (Vue.js, React, etc)
- Experience with Frontend Architecture Design
- Experience with version control system

- Experience in web application development with SPA and server-side rendering concepts
- Experience with Web Application Framework
- Experience with Unix / Linux (shellscripting, web administration, troubleshooting, etc)
- Experience working on e-commerce system
- Familiar with testing principles for application, Unit/Integration/Functional Testing

Young members in their late 20s to early 30s, from various countries and different cultural backgrounds.

In addition, there is no barrier between job titles and services in charge, and the entire department has an open and flat atmosphere, and we are very active in exchange meetings with other groups such as information sharing meetings and problem solving.

In short, it is a very lively cross-cultural environment where we can work, learn and have fun with each other and grow together.