Frontend Engineer, Rakuten Car - Car Engineering Section, Life & Leisure Service Development Department (LLSD)

Role summary

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The role involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining user-facing web applications for Rakuten Car within Rakuten’s Life & Leisure services. Candidates are expected to have professional frontend development experience, strong knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and modern frameworks such as React, along with familiarity with responsive design, APIs, version control, and software development practices. Experience improving usability, performance, and maintainability is valuable. The successful candidate should communicate effectively with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and other stakeholders, take ownership of technical work, and contribute to a reliable and user-friendly automotive service.

About the employer

Rakuten Group, Inc. is a major Japanese technology and internet company headquartered in Tokyo. Founded in 1997, it operates a broad ecosystem covering e-commerce, digital content, fintech, mobile communications, travel, advertising, and other online services. Its businesses include Rakuten Ichiba, Rakuten Card, Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Travel, and Rakuten Car. The company promotes a membership-based ecosystem in which customers can use Rakuten’s services and earn and spend Rakuten Points across the platform. Rakuten employs people from many nationalities and commonly uses English alongside Japanese in its international working environment. The organization emphasizes innovation, data-driven services, entrepreneurship, and collaboration across business units. Employees may work on products serving millions of users in Japan and overseas, often within agile, cross-functional engineering and product teams.