Senior Engineer, Web

Rakuten Viki; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rakuten Viki, a global entertainment streaming platform with a strong presence in Asia, seeks a Senior Engineer, Web to join its Web Team. You will contribute to high-traffic web properties like viki.com and soompi.com, delivering immersive, fast, and accessible interfaces.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, operations, and data analytics to push the boundaries of streaming UI, ensure performance, and ship features across React and Svelte stacks in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web frameworks.
• Experience with ReactJS, Svelte, or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with semantic HTML, CSS, and browser concepts.
• Experience writing automated tests and API integrations.

Responsibilities

• Create beautiful, responsive, and performant user interfaces.
• Develop and maintain fast, reusable React/Svelte components.
• Collaborate with design, product, and engineering to build mobile-optimized web apps and new features.
• Translate product specs into functional UI with modern web tech.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and improve developer productivity.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

ReactJS

Svelte

Semantic HTML/CSS

End-to-end testing

API integration

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science

Tools

Next.js

SvelteKit

Astro

Job description

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.

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 Viki is a global entertainment streaming platform that specializes in Asian content. Our platform enables millions of viewers to discover and enjoy primetime shows and movies, subtitled in over 150 languages. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, we also have offices in Singapore, Seoul, and Shanghai, ensuring a strong global presence and a deep connection to the heart of Asian entertainment. Our platform is home to a large and loyal community of fans who share a passion for Asian culture and entertainment. Join us in our mission to bridge cultures and connect the world to Asian entertainment. At Rakuten Viki, we offer a chance to be part of a global community that celebrates culture, creativity, and connection.

About the Web Team

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 React, Svelte, NextJS, Typescript, Tailwinds CSS, NodeJS, etc. We work on a range of challenging projects, such as building features like video streaming components, optimizing web performance, monitoring, creating in-house developer tools etc. The team works closely with the product, design, operations and data analytics team to deliver better, faster and the best experiences for our users.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, we are in search of a Senior Engineer, Web who can work in a fast-paced, professional environment.

Key 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
• 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 JavaScript and Typescript fundamentals
• Professional experience with ReactJS, Svelte, or another modern JavaScript web framework (Astro, Angular, VueJS). Knowledge of NextJS and SvelteKit is a plus
• Experience with writing automated, end-to-end tests
• Experience with API integration
• 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.

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