Senior Frontend Developer

Job Description

About the role: Be a part of the Rakuten Symphony core development/engineering frontend team. Work closely with development team in agile manner to release new features and enhancement for CPaaS frontend service. Work in a global team spread across Japan, India and UK in different time zones. Open to off hour availability due to work as required. Make best use of productivity improvement tool such as JIRA & confluence. Participate in daily team huddle and present work status for visibility. Actively contribute to overall improvement projects within team. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and translate them into features. Develop responsive web applications, ensuring seamless integration with backend services and API calls. Implement and maintain high-quality code, following best practices and coding standards. Optimize application performance, ensuring fast loading times and a smooth user experience. Stay up-to-date with the latest frontend technologies and trends, and integrate them into our development processes. Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members. Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design mockups and prototypes. Troubleshoot and resolve frontend issues, bugs, and performance bottlenecks. Participate in Agile/Scrum development methodologies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives. Requirements B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science Fluent in English Strong communication and leadership skills. Proactively communicate internally and externally to remove any blockers. Ability to work with remote teams in different time zones. Ability to take a full responsibility over a task/feature and deliver it with high quality from beginning to end independently. 6+ years experience in FE/Full Stack software engineering. 6+ years of proven experience in: JavaScript/Typescript, React, Redux/understanding of app level state management, Webpack, Yarn/npm, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, RESTful APIs Solid understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript best practices Knowledge of modern CSS (css-in-js, css modules, css frameworks, etc.) Experience with middleware/server-side JS Solid understanding of web app system design Understanding of web security/session management Experience with Kubernetes deployments Full-Stack experience/ Experience building BE APIs Experience with NestJS or similar Node.js frameworks. Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery systems with Jenkins/Docker/Kubernetes Experience in writing unit tests and integration tests in a large scale Experience conducting large-scale refactors on a fast-moving product. Experience in MaterialUI, expertise in Component-Based Architecture