Frontend Software Development Engineer

Get to know The Pokémon Company International

The Pokémon Company International a subsidiary of The Pokémon Company in Japan manages the property outside of Asia and is responsible for brand management licensing marketing the Pokémon Trading Card Game the animated TV series home entertainment and the official Pokémon website. Pokémon was launched in Japan in 1996 and today is one of the most popular childrens entertainment properties in the world.

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Get To Know The Role

• Job Title: Frontend Software Development Engineer
• Job Summary: This role will be responsible for the development of our Pokémon Center eCommerce website building new features that turn fandom into unforgettable experiences and helping millions of Trainers discover collect and celebrate what they love.
• People Manager: No

What Youll Do

• Lead the design development and optimization of complex systems and features.
• Design and develop scalable solutions and mentor team members on best practices.
• Partner with product and leadership teams to define technical strategies and deliver impactful features.
• Drive quality through advanced testing methodologies and oversee deployments.
• Own production incident management proactively improving reliability and performance.
• Champion continuous improvement influencing architecture decisions and technical direction.

What Youll Bring

• We value engineers who embrace new challenges are excited to build a broad skillset and want to work with those around them to help us craft experiences to bring the world of Pokémon closer than ever.
• Excellent communication skills tailored to both technical and business audiences.
• Deep programming experience with a focus on well maintained performant and re-usable code.
• Experience of cloud-native architecture platform engineering and application monitoring in highly available environments.
• A passion for building resilient scalable systems that support high-traffic and low latency platforms.
• Experience navigating incident response and collaborating across teams to reactively resolve outages.
• Experience of the full development lifecycle from concept to delivery through to maintenance.

The Technology We Use

These are the technologies we use across our environment. You dont need to know every tool but we expect strong proficiency in several and the ability to make informed decisions about when and how to use them:

• Javascript & Typescript as our primary language with Java on the backend.
• React and as our frontend frameworks.
• Bloomreach as our frontend CMS.
• RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• Jest and Playwright for our automated testing.
• AWS as our cloud provider.
• Datadog Cloudwatch and New Relic for monitoring and observability.
• GitLab for our Git management and CI/CD pipelines.
• Scaled agile (SAFe) as our development methodology.

Base Salary Range

For this role new hires generally start between 65500.00 - 78000per year. The full range is 65500.00 - 98000.00 per year. This range is applicable for the labor market where the role is intended to be hired. The final base salary is directly related to the candidates qualifications and professional experience uniquely.

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How youll be successful

• Passion for Pokémon: Develops an understanding of the Pokémon brand the impact it has on our people culture business fans and communities and applying that knowledge and passion to everything you do.
• Challenging the Expected: Approaches challenges with curiosity and creativity embracing the possibility of failure as an opportunity to learn something new develop innovative ideas solve complex problems and identify unique opportunities.
• Integrity and Respect: Demonstrates integrity and respect by leading with empathy listening to others seeking out different perspectives and taking personal responsibility for decisions actions and results.
• Dedicated to Quality: Takes ownership to maintain and promote high standards looks for new ways to learn and improve and embraces a growth mindset to seek and apply feedback from others in an effort to continuously improve.
• Building Relationships: Develops and strengthens relationships adopting a team first mentality and working collaboratively to solve problems and meet shared goals.
• Delighting Customers: Listens and understands the interests and needs of our customers and stakeholders making them feel heard and important and embracing these learnings to continue delivering a unique Pokémon experience.

What to expect

• An innovative culture driven by impact delivering meaningful outcomes.
• Company events that celebrate the spirit of Pokémon.
• Competitive cash-based compensation programs.
• 100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for you.
• Generous paid family leave.
• Employer-paid life insurance.
• Employer-paid long and short-term income protection insurance.
• US Employees: 401k Employer Matching.
• UK/IRE/MX Employees: Pension Employer Contributions.
• Fitness reimbursement.
• Commuter benefit.
• LinkedIn learning.
• Comprehensive relocation package for certain roles.
• Hybrid work environment.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this role. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required. Employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time as needed. For roles in the United Kingdom candidates will need the right to some cases and for some roles the Company may be able to arrange a visa. For roles in Ireland this role requires candidates to have the right to live and work in the Republic of Ireland. However we welcome applications from all nationalities and may consider supporting an employment permit application in appropriate and suitable cases.

The Pokémon Company International is committed to the inclusion of all qualified applicants for consideration in our job application process. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application pre-employment testing or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process please contact the Talent Acquisition team at .