The Role
Rakuten Kobo is looking for a Software Engineer III to join our amazing Web team! You will be joining one of our development teams to deliver awesome new features for our many users to enjoy.
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 requirements gathering and solutioning, to implementation and testing, to deploying and monitoring how our code behaves in front of real customers. Kobo is looking for an Software Engineer III who has a strong JavaScript and react background who shares these passions and is proud of the work they do.
Reporting to the Software Engineering Manager, the Software Engineer III plays a vital role in all aspects of delivery from design, planning and implementation through to releasing and monitoring.
Responsibilities :
1. Write, modify, and debug web applications using JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS
2. Self-document development processes, conduct peer reviews, and give actionable feedback
3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements and create comprehensive test plans
4. Perform regression testing to validate software stability after changes or updates
5. Collaborate with developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues, providing detailed bug reports
6. Monitoring the health of the application after release
The Skillset:
Required:
7. Proven experience as a JavaScript Engineer
8. Knowledge of client-side single-page applications that use a modern framework such as React
9. Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
10. Experience with Git
11. Experienced and knowledgeable in CI/CD and different testing strategies and techniques (Unit, Integration, UI tests)
12. Comfortable with and enthusiastic about learning new technologies
13. Exceptional communication and organizational skills
Nice to Haves:
14. Test Automation using WebDriver
15. Working with GitLab, GitHub, AzDo
16. Knowledge of Jest, Webpack, yarn
17. Writing shell scripts
18. Working with Gitlab CI/CD