Senior Engineer, Web

Rakuten Asia Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Rakuten Viki is seeking a Senior Engineer, Web to own the development of user-facing web properties such as viki.com and soompi.com. You will work with a diverse stack including React, Svelte, NextJS, and TypeScript to deliver fast, accessible interfaces for tens of millions of users.

You will collaborate with product, design and engineering, build reusable components, and ensure high performance and SEO-friendly web experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with 5-8 years of relevant web development experience.
• Strong knowledge of semantic HTML, CSS, and browser concepts.
• Solid JavaScript and TypeScript foundations.
• Professional experience with ReactJS, Svelte, or similar frameworks.
• Experience with NextJS and SvelteKit is a plus.
• Experience with automated tests and API integrations.
• Ability to diagnose and optimize performance issues.

Responsibilities

• Create responsive, performant user interfaces for web platforms.
• Develop and maintain reusable components for internal libraries.
• Collaborate with design, product and engineering teams on features.
• Translate product specs into functional UI with modern web tech.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and optimize development speed.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

ReactJS

Svelte

NextJS

Web performance

API integration

End-to-end tests

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

ReactJS

Svelte

NextJS

SvelteKit

Astro

Angular

VueJS

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. 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

Rakuten is Japan's leading Internet services company, a largest e-commerce company in Japan, and the third largest e-commerce marketplace worldwide with a combined membership of almost 1.3 billion. As part of the 70+ businesses and services worldwide, Rakuten Viki is the world’s leading platform for Asian entertainment and culture where millions of people discover and consume primetime shows and movies subtitled in more than 200 languages by our community of avid fans. Alongside, we have Soompi, the publishing arm of Rakuten Viki, that is also one of the biggest global K-pop news sites and the longest-running fandom community. From innovative engagement features to original content, Rakuten Viki and Soompi are pushing the boundaries of global entertainment with our teams who utilize leading-edge technologies to build these platforms. If you are looking to join a diverse and talented team with great ambitions to change the digital entertainment landscape, come be a part of our Rakuten Viki team!