Introduction Hi, this is Trueman from the Osaka Branch. I left Canada to move to Japan and join Rakuten at the end of 2019 as an Application Engineer. I’ve learned a lot since my first little “hello world” script and would like to share so…

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 …

Hello, My name is Zoe, a server side engineer in Rakuma. I like to polish my sneakers these days. This post is about Rails x puma-dev x puma server environment. The original motivation for this post is my laggy local Rails environment with…

Hi everyone. This is R-Hack editorial office. Have you thought “I want to try something different.”, or ”I am interested in the job of the department.” when you have been working at the same division? This time, we will introduce you an “I…

Hello, this is Sakadai from R-Hack editorial office. Today, I would like to interview K-san, who is the General Manager of the EC Logistics Development Department. Please enjoy! General Manager of EC Logistics Development Department K-san …

* This article wrote in February. We are currently working from home.[HQ measures as of Tuesday, March 17] (April 30 updata) ・ In principle, we work from home, unless business needs,legal requirements, or Information Security Policy requi…

Hi, there! This is R-Hack editorial office. This is quite sudden, but do you know what day is the day on 28th January? People who could answer immediately must be conscious about protecting privacy! The day is “Data Privacy Day”. Today, we…

As part of countermeasures for coronavirus, Rakuten will implement following measures Event Date: January 9, 2020We hold this event before the enforcement of those measures.Do not hold face to face meetings and video conferencing is recomm…

Hi, there! We, R-Hack, have been posting on many facilities of the Rakuten Crimson House, like convenience stores, cafés, laundry service, etc. (Please visit the other articles we have posted!) But, there are many more amazing things, one …

As part of countermeasures for coronavirus, Rakuten will implement following measures Event Date: January 24, 2020We hold this event before the enforcement of those measures.Currently, Rakuten voluntarily refrained from participating in ev…

Hello, this is R-Hack team. Do you know the word “mindfulness” which is a hot topic among business people these days? Let us tell you about the “mindfulness meditation gathering” held at Rakuten Crimson House this time! Why mindfulness for…

【Cancel】JaSST 20’ Tokyo The nonprofit organization ASTER and JaSST committee, which organize JaSST, have canceled the Japan Symposium on Software Testing “JaSST 2020 Tokyo”, which had been scheduled on 9th and 10th March, 2020 due to fea…

Hi, everyone, this is R-Hack editorial office. 2020 has begun, how was your year end and New Year holidays? An event “Smile Winter 2019 - Thank You Week” was held at Rakuten to give thanks each other among employees. During the event, the …

Hi there, As a part of our diversity topics in R-Hack we would like to report about Rakuten’s supporting system and the firm’s policies designed for employees with LGBT background in this article. The word LGBT is now well-known and being …

Hi all – this is R-Hack team. Our article this time is about Rakuten’s strategies around diversity and especially our various supporting systems for Islamic culture. Diversity as a corporate strategy is to accept and co-work with people wi…

Hi, I am Toyonaga from Rakuma, so easy to get tan, by the way. Well, this is quite sudden, but have you heard the script “INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE” of MySQL? The script “INSERT, UPDATE” huge data at once. We were using the script…

Hi, there! This is R-Hack editorial office, and let us announce that R-Hack's website is ready on Facebook!! We will timely post announcements of recruiting events as well as notifications of our new articles. You can get the latest news o…

What comes to your mind when you hear “what is the Rakuten office at Futako Tamagawa”? Many people might remind of Rakuten Crimson House, but do you know there is another one in Futako Tamagawa? Actually, there is a Rakuten office in Futak…

Hi there! This is R-Hack editorial office. Rakuten held an event, “Commerce Tech Meet up in Nagoya”, on November 19th. The Commerce Company of Rakuten has many development bases (Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Fukuoka) in Japan! Thi…

this time let us introduce the working environment for the engineers in Commerce Company.Don’t you have the image that engineers must be sitting in front of PC all day long for working? Let’s see if that is true.We walked into the workplac…

Hi everyone! The design and layout of the office has been diversified nowadays, and companies which have open work places and break rooms are getting increased. When the meeting rooms are busy, when you want to concentrate on work alone, y…

Hello all, this is R-Hack team. Today we will share some stories about “Behind the scene: Rakuten Super SALE”. Hope you will enjoy! ◆About “Rakuten Super SALE” on Rakuten Ichiba Rakuten Ichiba is one of the leading internet shopping malls …

Hi, everyone. This is the R-Hack editorial office. Today, let us introduce an employee who joined Rakuten after having “夏の陣 – Summer Intern”. An engineer, Mac-san, entered Rakuten as new graduates in April, 2017. Hi, Mac-san, it is good…

Commerce Tech has been holding short internship programs for students from all over Japan in every September recent years, named “Futako-Tamagawa Natsu-No-Jin”. This year is the 5th internship program, which theme is “empowerment for 〇〇”…

Hi, everyone! This time, we would like to introduce the “Entrance” of the second floor at the Rakuten Crimson House. Rakuten Crimson House was developed through discussions between Rakuten Creative Director Kashiwa Sato and our Representat…

Hi, everyone! November 23rd was Labor Thanksgiving Day. That is one of the national holidays which was established for the purpose of commemorating labor and production, and giving thanks to each other. On that day, did you show appreciati…