Software Engineer

Job Description:

Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment, and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company's mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.

Rakuten Rewards is a leading e-commerce company that enhances the way people shop by offering Cash Back, deals and rewards from more than 3,500 merchants. Founded in 1999, Rakuten has grown to become the go-to shopping destination for consumers, having paid out nearly $2 billion in Cash Back to its 15 million members. The company also operates ShopStyle, a leading fashion discovery destination, and Cartera Commerce, a top rewards platform for airlines and banks. For more information, visit www.rakuten.com

SUMMARY:

We're looking for an energetic, detail-oriented, software engineer who can contribute toward building micro-frontend services. We want engineers who are eager to solve large-scale technical challenges, and who can live up to our commitments to achieve best-in-class: user privacy, user experience, and developer experience. You will contribute to novel, consumer-facing product launches that will help our millions of loyal users shop online in new and exciting ways.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Persuasive communicator Form strong partnership with product managers and stakeholders Strong orientation towards data and use data to drive decisions Understands how to break work down into concise deliverables with a focus on iterative product delivery Become intimately familiar with systems he/she builds and pride in writing maintainable code

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Strong experience developing with React, Javascript and with fluency in ES6+

• Deep experience of modern Javascript frameworks (specifically React), CSS and preprocessors, build tools

• Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS3

• Experience writing unit tests for components and frontend code (e.g. React Testing Library)

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

• You have been intimately involved with optimizing delivery of web-based applications

• Strong sense of web design and attuned to the fundamentals of user experience

• Familiarity with the whole web stack and delivery of resources, including protocols, web server optimization techniques

• Knowledge of Accessibility (a11y) best practices

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

• 2+ years experience of relevant industry experience in (frontend) software engineering

• Experience working on design systems

• Experience with Storybook

• Experience working on frontend developer tooling

• Experience working with UX Design tools such as Figma or Invision

Five Principles for Success

Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

Always improve, Always Advance

• Only be satisfied with complete success

• Kaizen

Passionately Professional

• Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best

Hypothesize

• Practice

• Validate

• Shikumika

• Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory

Maximize Customer Satisfaction

• The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile

Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team

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.