React Job: Junior Full Stack Developer

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Company

Rakuten

Location

Toronto - Canada

Job type

Full-Time

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Job Description:
The Company:
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 make reading lives better.
The Role:
Rakuten Kobo Toronto is looking for a Junior Full Stack developer to join our amazing Web team! You will be joining our browse team to build and maintain our ecommerce web platform to provide a seamless browsing experience to our consumers.
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 engineer who shares these passions and is proud of the work they do.
Responsibilities:
  • Participate in the design, development and testing of our web applications for improvements and new product features.
  • Own the browse systems by monitoring production systems through various metrics and debug/fix issues as they arise
  • Participate in code reviews; happy to give and receive constructive feedback
  • Communicate clearly and effectively with teammates, Business stakeholders and other development teams in Kobo.
The Skillset:
Required:
  • Knowledge and some practical development experience with Microsoft techstack (ASP.NET MVC, Web API services)
  • Knowledge and some practical experience with HTML, JavaScript and CSS frameworks
  • Knowledge and some practical experience writing SQL queries
  • Experience writing unit tests
  • Basic understanding of SOLID Principles and Practices, IoC
  • Working knowledge of distributed version control like Git or similar.
  • Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work well in a distributed team environment
  • Comfortable with and enthusiastic about learning new technologies
Nice to Haves:
  • Previous ecommerce work experience
  • Working in an Agile environment and team
  • Docker, Solr, Kubernetes
  • Experience with noSQL such as RavenDB
  • Working with GitHub or Azure DevOps
  • Experience with modern JS frameworks such as React/Angular
  • Knowledge around SEO and Accessibility standards
The Perks:
  • Flexible hours and remote working environment
  • Full benefits starting from your first day
  • Paid Volunteer days, unlimited sick days, and 3% RRSP matching
  • Monthly commuting allowance and internet allowance
  • Flexible health spending account
  • Talent and development training budget
  • Free Kobo device + free weekly e-book or audiobook
  • Weekly Kobo Tech University sessions
  • Maternity/paternity leave top up
About Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Owned by Tokyo-based Rakuten and headquartered in Toronto, Rakuten Kobo Inc. is one of the most advanced global e-commerce companies, with the world’s most innovative eReading services offering more than 6 million eBooks and audiobooks to 30million + 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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