Senior Web Engineer

About the role

Rakuten Viki, a global entertainment streaming platform specializing in Asian content, is looking for a Senior Web Engineer within its Web Team. The team owns the user-facing web properties of Viki, such as viki.com and soompi.com, and works on projects including video streaming components, web performance optimization, monitoring and in-house developer tools. The engineer reports to the Engineering Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Create beautiful, responsive and performant user interfaces
• Develop and maintain fast, bug-free and reusable components for the internal React component library
• Work with design, product and engineering teams to build mobile-optimized web applications and new features
• Translate product specifications into fully functional interfaces using modern web technologies, working closely with UX designers
• Ensure cross-browser and multi-platform compatibility
• Build and integrate tools that increase developer speed and efficiency

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 5-8 years of relevant work experience
• Passion for technology, tools, environments, languages and systems

Required skills

• Semantic HTML, CSS and core web and browser concepts
• JavaScript and TypeScript fundamentals
• ReactJS, Svelte or another modern JavaScript framework (Astro, Angular, VueJS); knowledge of NextJS and SvelteKit is a plus
• End-to-end automated testing and API integration
• Performance and optimization problems, with the ability to diagnose and prevent them