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Front-End Engineer - Brand Marketing Strategy Department, Marketing Division

Rakuten global.rakuten.com Open · verified Sep 23, 2026
Tokyo Full-time Mid-level Brand Marketing

At a glance

Mid-level Brand Marketing role at Rakuten. Tokyo · full-time.

Pay not stated Brand Marketing salary

RoleBrand Marketing
SeniorityMid-level
LocationTokyo
EmploymentFull-time
PostedOct 29, 2025 · 11mo ago
Role brief

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What you'll do

  • Choose front-end technologies, define functional needs, and align stakeholders on implementation choices
  • Build, review, and release customer-facing sites for Rakuten Mobile and related services
  • Coordinate requests with backend engineers, web directors, designers, and business owners
  • Maintain and improve sites after launch, including deployment work and production-code quality
  • Contribute to projects spanning design, operation, renewal, and frequent website updates

What you bring

  • More than three years of professional front-end work using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or similar technologies
  • A career plan centered on front-end work for the next three years
  • Hands-on experience with Git or another version control system
  • Work or study experience with React.js and Vue.js, plus front-end work outside those frameworks

Who this fits

This role suits a mid-level front-end engineer who wants to stay in the front-end domain and work across the full project lifecycle. You’ll work with web, design, backend, business, and other Rakuten service engineers. The stated language levels are beginner English and fluent Japanese, and the role is based in Tokyo.

From the employer

Job Description:

Business Overview

The Marketing Division leads brand, creative, marketing, and membership as a cross-group organization with a mission to expand Rakuten Group's membership value and ecosystem of over 70 services.

We believe that the mobile domain is a platform that plays a fundamental role in the ecosystem, and as the Marketing Division, we are further promoting collaboration with Rakuten Mobile.

Department Overview

Marketing UX department is responsible for all UI/UX of Rakuten Mobile that customers can see on our website.
In the 3 years since the service started, our team has been evolved with the mission of improving the service with constant watching and analyzing the market and users’ trends. We have members of a wide range of age groups, and we have a team environment where you can casually have discussions with others.
In our department, you can create and make services better on your own with various challenges and a sense of accomplishment without inertia or giving up.

Position:

Why We Hire

Due to the mobile business expansion, we are recruiting more talents so as toto enforce our front-end domain.

 

Position Details

Job Domains

- Design, operation, improvement, and renewal of websites of Rakuten Mobile and other related services

- Cooperation with web directors, designers, back-end engineers, business owners

- Cooperation with engineers of Rakuten services other than Rakuten Mobile

Job Detail

From launch of projects to improvements after releases, on every project flow, to provide the optimum web sites for both customers and the company.

Main tasks are below.

- Technical research, designing functional requirements, and making consensus on what technology to adopt

- Making requests to backend engineers

- Coding, review, and release

According to the large scale of the company, tasks are well divided and there are specialists in each domain. You will have a lot of opportunities to learn new things, asking questions or consulting others in the workplace.

Since scales of websites are also large and frequencies of updates are high, you can also experience project managements.

Responsibilities

- Deciding technologies to use

- Assuring qualities for production codes

- Deployment tasks to web

Work Environment

20 members

- Mac

- Git

- scss, ejs, Vue.js, gulp, webpack

- Next.js, TypeScript

- Jenkins

Mandatory Qualifications:

- Over 3 years of job experience on front-end development such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and so on.

- For the next 3 years, your career plan is to work on front-end domain.

- Experience on VCS such as Git

- Job experience or learning experience on React.js and Vue.js.

- Job experience of front-end on environments other than React.js and Vue.js

Desired Qualifications:

- Working experience with multiple engineers

- Experience of making or operating to-Consumer websites except membership website or web application.

- Front-end related skill such as application, SEO, Web performance, infrastructure, and backend

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Languages:

English (Overall - 1 - Beginner), Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)

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