Fullstack Software Development Engineer [Multiple Openings]

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 children's entertainment properties in the world.

Learn more online at corporate.pokemon.com and pokemon.com.

Get to know the role

• Job Title: Fullstack Software Development Engineer [Multiple Openings]
• 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.
• FLSA Classification (US Only): Exempt
• People Manager: No

 

What you’ll 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
• Participate in on-call rotations

 

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related preferred or demonstrated equivalent expertise
• 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 don’t 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:

• Java as our primary backend language with Javascript & Typescript on the frontend.
• Javascript & Typescript as our primary language with Java on the backend.
• React and Next.js as our frontend frameworks. 
• Bloomreach as our frontend CMS. 
• Elastic Path for our headless eCommerce platform.
• Fluent Commerce as our Order Management Service.
• RESTful and GraphQL APIs and the Spring ecosystem.
• 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 $127,000.00 - $152,000.00 per year. The full range is $127,000.00 - $194,000.00 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 candidate’s qualifications and professional experience uniquely.

 

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How you’ll be successful

• Passion for Pokémon: Develops an understanding of the Pokémon brand, the impact it has on our people, culture, business, fans, an