Liza, who is from Moscow, came to Japan to learn Japanese. She fell in love with Japan, and after working in another IT company for five years, she decided to join Rakuten Group mid-career in October 2022 as a partner staff, later changing…

Every year in early July, Rakuten Group hosts a series of events called “Smile Summer Days”. As a global company where people from all over the world work together, these events aim to boost communication within the company by sharing Japa…

Hai is from Hanoi, Vietnam. He applied for a full-time position at Rakuten Group but was not selected, so he worked as a temporary staff for a year and a half before becoming a full-time employee. What does Hai, who also has experience wor…

Rakuten Group is a global company where English is the official language within the company. Rina, who is fluent in three languages, Korean, English, and Japanese, joined Rakuten Group wanting to put her language skills to use. We asked Ri…

Hi, this is R-Hack editorial office. Jackie, from the Philippines, became a member of Rakuten Group when the startup she was working at was acquired by Rakuten Group. We interviewed Jackie, who was promoted to Assistant Manager after joini…

MIP (Most Impressive Person) is one of the internal awards in Rakuten Group Commerce & Marketing Company Development Department, presented once every quarter to the people who contributed the most to the organization from among all Company…

MIP (Most Impressive Person) is one of the internal awards in Rakuten Group Commerce & Marketing Company Development Department, presented once every quarter to the people who contributed the most to the organization from among all Company…

Katsuo is the mother of two boys, one in elementary school, the other in kindergarten. She joined Rakuten Group in April 2011 as a new graduate, and after taking maternity and childcare leave, she is now working as a Product Manager in the…

Yama, who studied machine learning and molecular dynamics method, worked as an intern and part-timer while in school before joining Rakuten Group as a new graduate in April 2021. In his first year as a DevOps engineer, he served as a proje…

Puncoz joined Rakuten Group to fulfill his dream to work on large-scale system development. He hopes to utilize his seven years of SE experience gained in his home country, Nepal, to create exciting products and have a positive impact on s…

the Tech Lead for Rakuten Pay (online payment). In this article, I will introduce the specific initiatives we take to improve High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) in the operation of Rakuten Pay (online payment). The previous Part 1…

Hi, I’m Nana, the Tech Lead for Rakuten Pay (online payment). In this and the following article, I will introduce how we go about creating our High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) framework. This article will explain the approach to…

There are a variety of people working here at Rakuten Commerce & Marketing Company Development Department. Today, we interviewed Cynthia, who joined Rakuten Group in November 2019 as a new graduate engineer and is currently working as a Da…

Hi, this is R-Hack editorial office. How do you imagine the office environment and work style are for the engineers working at Rakuten Group? Some may think it may not be so good. For example, “I’m sure they sit and work in front of a comp…

Hi, this is R-Hack editorial office. Today, let me introduce to you Spencer from China, who newly joined Rakuten Group in February 2023!

Hi, this is R-Hack Editorial office.There are a variety of people working here at Rakuten Commerce & Marketing Company Development Department.Today, we interviewed Tufi from Pakistan, who newly joined Rakuten Group in November 2022.

Hi, this is R-Hack editorial office. There are a variety of people working here at Rakuten Commerce& Marketing Company Development Department. Today, let me introduce to you Chris from the Philippines, who newly joined Rakuten Group in Dec…

Hi, this is R-Hack editorial office. In this “Work Style” series, we will highlight and introduce the variety of people working here at Rakuten Commerce & Marketing Company Development Department(C&M Company TECH). Junli studied in the int…

Hi, this is Trueman, an Application Engineer working at Rakuten Group's Branch. I've written some articles before about some interesting and useful things we've done here that you might also want to try for yourself. This time I'd like to …

Hi, this is R-Hack editorial office. In this “Work Style” series, we will highlight and introduce the variety of people working here at Rakuten Commerce Tech.

Hi, this is Trueman, an Application Engineer working at Rakuten Group's Branch. I want to share a story about an issue that took 2 whole days of investigating and troubleshooting to resolve. Hopefully this can save you the time and frustra…

Hi, this is Jaycen from Car Auction team. I joined Rakuten in April 2021 and worked on Car Auction team since August 2021. Today, I’d like to share my experience at Car Auction team as the latest comer in the team. IntroductionI came from …

Hello, I am Burak, an application architect and currently working as the Lead SRE for the Rakuten Car Auction Service. My role is to support our team by providing system architecture guidance and ensure high system reliability for our prod…

Hello. This is R-Hack editorial office. Today I’d like to announce you that we have released the English version of the Open Position Search Page. What is the Open Position Search Page?・ All of open positions in Rakuten Commerce Company a…

Hello, this is Nick from EC Incubation Development Department.I am very glad to share my Kubernetes learning experience here. What is Kubernetes A platform more than just managing containers. A platform supported by most clouds system. A p…

My name is Pavan and I am an iOS engineer working in Rakuten Ichiba App team which belongs to Commerce TECH, my responsibility is to provide architecture direction, technical support and build tools, which save developers effort. This is m…

Hello. This is Idel from Osaka Branch.I joined Rakuten in late 2015 as an Engineer. One year later I switched to Project Management and then got an additional role as Vice-Group Manager the following year.In this article I would like to sh…

Hello. This is Idel from Rakuten Osaka Branch. Please allow me to share my experience about Retrospective. A few years ago, I change my career path from Software Engineer to Project Manager and have since tried different framework, methodo…

Our team works on bringing the best user experience as well integrating Rakuten services along with adapting to latest technologies. Brief Introduction: As a tech e-commerce giant with the tagline Shopping is Entertainment, our goal is to …

Hi, everyone. This is R-Hack editorial office. There are a variety of people working here at Rakuten Group. In this “Work Style” series, I would like to introduce each team in Rakuten Commerce Company, through the voices of the people work…

Hi, this is R-Hack editorial office. In this “Work Style” series, we will highlight and introduce the variety of people working here at Rakuten Commerce Tech. *The mask was taken off only for the picture. Introducing: Segawa-san, Product M…

Hi, this is Gian from the E-Commerce Mobile Architect Group. The mission of our group is to improve productivity by creating tools to automate tasks and providing technical support for the e-commerce mobile app development teams. In this a…

Hi, everyone. This is R-Hack editorial office. New graduates who joined Rakuten in April 2021 have been assigned to their respective departments in August and have started their work. The new graduates at Rakuten Commerce Tech received var…

Hi, everyone. This is Yumi from R-Hack editorial office. Rakuten Commerce Tech has decided to choose two MIPs out of all 1,800 Commerce Tech employees once every quarter from 2021. This time, I would like to introduce the two winners of th…

Let me start with the introduction of Mobile App Community. Mobile App Community is an internal community inside Rakuten Commerce TECH, which consists of representative engineering leads from >20 mobile app products. Across borders of orga…

Rakuten has been working on “diversity” for many years, including the adoption of English as the official language. Currently, there are 25,000 people working in the entire Rakuten Group (as of March 2021), and the percentage of people wit…

How do you do? This is Ryo from R-hack editorial office. In the “Inside Culture” section which will start from this post, we will spotlight and introduce various employees working at Rakuten Commerce Tech. Done is from Xian Province, China…

Hi, everyone. This is R-hack editorial office.It’s April and 56 new graduates for 2021 have joined Commerce Tech.Unlike the business side, the development side doesn’t hold welcoming ceremonies.There’s no welcoming ceremonies because the d…

(*Masks were taken off for the picture only.) Hi, this is kagaffy! I worked at Rakuma as an iOS engineer from January to March 2021. It was in fact the first time Rakuma had taken an intern, but thanks to everyone’s kindness and support, I…

Hi, everyone. The chilly season is here! In September, Commerce Tech held an online event to share tips for working from home. Many people who are working from home due to the spread of the novel coronavirus are confused by the new way of …

Hi, this is Tetsu. If you are engaged in application development, you may be asked by your boss or business manager to develop applications quickly in order to respond to user needs and stay ahead of competing businesses. Especially nowada…

Hello! This is R-Hack team. Do you know a job called “product manager”? It is abbreviated as PDM and is meant to be the guarantor of the success of a product. This time we had an interview with Taku who works as a PDM. R-Hack - Hi, thank y…

Hi everyone. This is R-Hack editorial office. The days have gotten a lot longer.When I wake up in the morning and open the curtain, the sun is bright and I feel that summer is near.Commerce Tech recently held a Tech event for QA. The event…

Hello, this is Sakadai from R-Hack editorial office. Today, we would like to interview Yasu-san, who is a director of Leisure Product Department (LPD). We hope you enjoy it! General Manager of Leisure Product DepartmentYasu-san Sakadai Tha…

Hi, everyone. This is R-Hack editorial office. If you are interested in becoming a Commerce Company engineer, this is a must read! Here, I will introduce various skill development courses that support the development skills of Rakuten engi…

Hi, this is Sakadai from R-Hack team. Today’s article is about the interview with Kane, the Manager of EC Market Place Business Support Development Department (abbreviated as ECBD). Please enjoy! General Manager of EC Market Place Business…

As part of countermeasures for coronavirus, Rakuten will implement following measures We hold this event before the enforcement of those measures.Event Date:November, 2019Currently, Rakuten voluntarily refrained from participating in event…

Hello! This is R-Hack editorial office. R-Hach has introduced a variety of articles like Commerce Tech employees, their work style, facilities and system of Rakuten, and culture, and more. Today, we would like to announce our top five arti…

Hello. I am Toyonaga from Rakuma. I continue to hit against the wall with competitive programming. When do you make a Unique constraint on a database? I had a conversation like this with my senior in the past. This is the scene where I was…

Where is the most comfortable meeting room in your home? Thank you for visiting R-Hack. This time, I wrote the second article about working from home. Please enjoy it! How have you been spending your time recently? This is Freddie. I am a …