Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Angular UI Developer

Location: Bangalore, Indore

Why should you choose us

Rakuten Symphony is reimagining telecom, changing supply chain norms and disrupting outmoded thinking that threatens the industry's pursuit of rapid innovation and growth. Based on proven modern infrastructure practices, its open interface platforms make it possible to launch and operate advanced mobile services in a fraction of the time and cost of conventional approaches, with no compromise to network quality or security.

Rakuten Symphony has operations in Japan, the United States, Singapore, India, South Korea, Europe, and the Middle East Africa region. For more information, visit: https://symphony.rakuten.com

Building on the technology Rakuten used to launch Japan's newest mobile network, we are taking our mobile offering global.

To support our ambitions to provide an innovative cloud-native telco platform for our customers, Rakuten Symphony is looking to recruit and develop top talent from around the globe. We are looking for individuals to join our team across all functional areas of our business from sales to engineering, support functions to product development.

Let's build the future of mobile telecommunications together!

About Rakuten Group, Inc. (TSE: 4755) is a global leader in internet services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications to 2 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has over 30,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/.

Role Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Angular Developer to design, build and maintain large scale, high-performance single-page applications (SPA) and micro-frontends. You'll play a key role in migrating our product from Angular 16 to Angular 19 within an Nx monorepo, leveraging single-spa, SystemJS, and webpack. This role offers the opportunity to shape architecture decisions, establish best practices, and mentor a growing team.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and optimize scalable Angular applications and microfrontends using Angular, TypeScript, and RxJS.

Lead the migration from Angular 16 19, including planning, compatibility analysis, incremental rollout, and testing strategies.

Architect and maintain projects within an Nx monorepo, ensuring modularity and maintainability.

Implement and manage microfrontend integration using single-spa and SystemJS.

Build reusable UI components, enforce consistency in styling, and ensure compliance with accessibility standards (WCAG).

Optimize application performance with strategies such as lazy loading, differential loading, change detection tuning, and bundle optimization.

Establish and maintain automated testing suites (unit + e2e) using Jest/Karma and Cypress/Playwright.

Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, QA, and DevOps teams to build robust CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.

Conduct peer code reviews, mentor mid-level/junior engineers, and drive adoption of front-end best practices.

Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues; maintain observability and logging practices for frontend services.

Must-Have Skills :

3+ years of experience with Angular (components, DI, lifecycle hooks, change detection, RxJS).

Strong TypeScript expertise.

Hands-on experience with Nx monorepo architectures (managing apps/libs).

Proven experience in microfrontend development with single-spa and SystemJS.

Strong understanding of webpack configuration and build optimization.

Familiarity with state management (NgRx or similar).

Experience in CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows.

Strong testing background (unit + e2e).

Excellent debugging and performance profiling skills.

Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and cloud deployments.

Strong communication skills, able to explain technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

Prior experience migrating Angular major versions.

Exposure to SSR/Angular Universal.

Knowledge of telecom domain.

Familiarity with feature flags, observability tools (Sentry/NewRelic), and frontend security practices (XSS, CSP).

Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and accessibility (a11y).

Soft Skills:

Strong communication skills; able to explain technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Experience mentoring team members and leading small engineering initiatives.

Ownership mindset and ability to balance trade-offs pragmatically.

RAKUTEN SHUGI PRINCIPLES:

Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviours that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

• Always improve, always advance. Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen.
• Be passionately professional. Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best.
• Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika. Use the Rakuten Cycle to success in unknown territory.
• Maximize Customer Satisfaction. The greatest satisfaction for workers in a service industry is to see their customers smile.
• Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! Always be conscious of time. Take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team.