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Software Engineer, React Web [Merlogi]

Mercari Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡 Fully remote
  • 🧪 Minimum years of experience unspecified
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About Mercari

Mercari Minato-ku, Tokyo

Mercari is a marketplace app that makes it easy for people to safely sell and ship their things. Having been downloaded over 100 million times, it is now among the largest peer-to-peer selling platforms globally.

Key benefits

  • Full flextime
  • Outside work encouraged
  • Employee stock ownership program

About the position

About Merlogi

Merlogi, Inc. is a Mercari Group company established on October 28, 2021, with the mission of “Relaying value far and wide for kinder living.” With our unique data and technology, we aim to provide logistics services kinder to all people involved and to society as a whole. We’re working to expand Mercari Posts and other Mercari touchpoints to more locations and build a package pickup distribution network, creating an even better experience for Mercari’s more than 20 million monthly users.

Responsibilities

  • Create and continuously improve web frontend products for business partner
  • Develop and maintain the product from inception to production
  • Build reliable and scalable web frontend software with JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Backend Engineers to develop the product
  • Work with third-party vendors to integrate new functionality
  • Depending on your motivation and ability, there are opportunities to be involved in web, backend and mobile application development, in addition to your core skills.

Requirements

  • Shared understanding and belief in our company’s mission and values
  • Ability to use HTML and CSS to implement solid user interfaces
  • Basic knowledge of performance, accessibility, and security
  • Understanding of version management and ability to participate in development via Git
  • Knowledge of JavaScript and experience developing with UI libraries or frameworks such as React, Next.js, Vue.js, and Angular
  • Able to understand and explain web operation principles and browsers

Nice to haves

These aren’t required, but be sure to mention them in your application if you have them.

  • Extensive knowledge of standard web technologies and specialized knowledge in some areas
  • Understanding of the characteristics of different libraries/frameworks and the ability to introduce them to projects where necessary
  • Ability to design architecture based on the characteristics of the app
  • Ability to consistently take initiative in implementing improvements to the app
  • Experienced with React, Next.js, TypeScript
  • Experience working for backend and mobile applications

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