Position Summary
Rakuten Travel is the largest online travel platform in Japan, serving millions of users searching for hotels, rental cars, buses, and air tickets. Over decades, we have built a strong, unique business strategy in synergy with Rakuten's principles, aiming to maximize satisfaction for users and partners as we grow into one of the world's leading travel platforms.

We are expanding our engineering team at Rakuten India to help accomplish this mission. Our front-end platform is a large-scale microfrontend monorepo spanning multiple customer- and partner-facing applications. Team members are distributed globally and collaborate in English.

As a Tech Lead for the Frontend team, you will own the technical direction and core architecture of one or more applications within our micro-frontend monorepo, leading a team of talented engineers toward advanced, maintainable, and user-friendly web applications. You will balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership: setting standards, unblocking the team, driving cross-application consistency through shared libraries,



design systems, and tooling, and coaching engineers to grow. You will partner closely with Engineering and Product Management to shape the roadmap and ensure delivery without compromising quality.

What You Will Do
• Design and evolve large-scale front-end architecture and core framework decisions.
• Lead the team in developing creative, intuitive, and reusable UI components, favoring shared libraries such as design systems, icons, and UI components over one-off implementations.
• Drive technical planning: break down initiatives, estimate effort, sequence work, and de-risk complex changes across the monorepo.
• Collaborate with backend engineers and architects to define clean, well-typed API contracts and seamless UI/API integration.
• Research, evaluate, and introduce new web technologies and patterns to improve the platform.
• Partner with product managers and UI/UX designers to shape gr

📌 Technical Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rakuten India
📍 Bengaluru