Senior Frontend Developer

Job Description:

Here at Rakuten Kobo Inc. we offer a casual working start-up environment and a group of friendly and talented individuals. Our employees rank us highly in terms of commitment to work/life balance. We realize that for our people to be innovative, creative and passionate they need to feel valued and supported. We believe in rewarding all our employees with competitive salaries, performance based annual bonuses, stock options and training opportunities.

If you're looking for a company that inspires passion, personal, and professional growth – join Kobo and come help us on our mission of making reading lives better.

The Role:

Rakuten Kobo is looking for a Senior Frontend Developer – Purchasing (12 months contract) to join our amazing R&D team in Toronto. You will be joining one of our development teams to deliver awesome new features to our customers.

Our engineers are enthusiastic and operate across the development spectrum, from front-end to back-end to CI/CD and infrastructure. We take full responsibility for our work, from gathering and solutioning requirements, to implementation and testing, to deploying and monitoring how our code behaves in front of real customers. Kobo is looking for a Senior Frontend Developer (12 month contract) who shares these passions and is proud of the work they do.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering, the Sr.Frontend Developer plays a vital role in all aspects of delivery from design, planning and implementation through to releasing and monitoring.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop the web applications.
• Self-document development processes, conduct peer reviews, and give actionable feedback.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements.
• Perform regression testing to validate software stability after changes or updates.
• Monitoring the health of the application and improve the observability of the system.

The Skillset:

• Proficiency in modern JavaScript libraries such as ReactJS, NextJS, Remix.
• Experience building web components with REACT library and tailwind CSS.
• Ample experience of JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS/SCSS.
• Experience in developing accessible applications using accessibility standards.
• Expertise in unit testing frameworks such as React Testing Library and Jestor similar libraries.
• Hands-on experience with end-to-end testing tools like Playwright or similar libraries.
• Proficient in DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions CI/CD, AzureDevOps or Jenkins.
• Competent in monitoring and logging tools like Datadog and Kibana.

Nice to have:

• Experience using Storybook for component documentation and playground
• Knowledge of containerization using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience working in .NET centric environment
• Knowledge on MS SQL, Raven DB.
• Experience working on Purchasing domain is a bonus.
• Hands-on experience improving the page performance(focusing on the lighthouse scores)

About Rakuten Kobo Inc.

Owned by Tokyo-based Rakuten and headquartered in Toronto, Rakuten Kobo Inc. is one of the most advanced global ecommerce companies, with the world's most innovative eReading services offering more than 6 million eBooks and audiobooks to 30 million + customers in 190 countries. Kobo delivers the best digital reading experience through creative innovation, award-winning eReaders, and top-ranking mobile apps. Kobo is a part of the Rakuten group of companies.

Rakuten Kobo Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Accessibility accommodations for candidates with disabilities participating in the selection process are available on request. Any information received related to accommodation needs of applicants will be addressed confidentially.

Rakuten Kobo would like to thank all applicants for their interest in this role however only qualified candidates will be shortlisted.

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