Project Manager (Rakuten Edy, Rakuten Cash) - E-money System Department, Rakuten Edy, Inc.

Job Description:

Business Overview Rakuten Group's basic management philosophy is to "empower people and society through innovation”. We provide more than 70 diverse services, including EC services such as shopping malls and travel booking sites, financial services such as online banking, and media services and professional sports, to more than 100 million customers in Japan alone (more than 1.6 billion globally), covering a wide range of people's life scenes. At the same time, we are building a strong business model based on the "Rakuten Ecosystem" that organically links customers and various services. As a member of the Rakuten Group's FinTech Group Company, we at Rakuten Payment, Inc. and Rakuten Edy, Inc. are developing businesses centered on settlement services such as Rakuten Pay, Rakuten Edy, and Point Partner Business, as well as marketing solutions. "With the power of technology, we aim to create a world where anyone can enjoy the same value no matter where they are" As the digital sphere of society rapidly expands, we want to connect the Internet and the real world more seamlessly, so that everyone can use technology to lead a safe, secure, and more comfortable daily life. In order to achieve such a society, we would like to face the various problems that people are facing and move forward together to the next stage.

Department Overview With the strength of the Rakuten Point market, which has surpassed 2 trillion yen in total issuance, we are building the "Rakuten Economic Circle" through service collaboration with Rakuten Group companies and the introduction of cashless settlement services in real stores, which are growing at an accelerated pace.

Our settlement services can be used at approximately 5 million online and offline locations, including supermarkets, convenience stores, and shopping malls nationwide, as well as at approximately 1 million locations where traffic-related e-money can be used, and the number of locations where this service can be used is continuing to. E-money System Division handles everything, Rakuten Edy and Rakuten Cash, from system service planning related to payment services, planning and implementation related to UI/UX, basic and detailed system design, coding, testing, and operation.

As the service expands, you will be able to experience the planning, development, and operation of a very large-scale system. In addition, you will be able to improve our services by directly listening to the voices of our customers. It is a role to promote the upstream process of the development project for Rakuten Cash, which is an electronic money service used in various situations such as Rakuten Pay App and Rakuten Ichiba. It is a position that requires a wide range of excellent skills such as service level, performance requirements, quality requirements, large-capacity data manipulation and other system linkage, understanding the complicated and difficult business logic peculiar to financial services. You can make a solid leap as an application engineer. You will gain experience as a party who participates in various projects from the planning stage and builds services together with business divisions and planning.

Rakuten Edy and Rakuten Cash

- One of the largest products in Rakuten Fintech (UU millions above) - User of Rakuten Cash increased about 1 million in 1 year in 2024

Why We Hire To improve organization structure.

Position Details We will assign you as PL of the development project. Responsible for various upstream processes of system development. Planning support, requirement definition, basic design, vendor management, test promotion, release. Water flow development with vendor management. English is not used very often.

Work Environment - The age of the people in the organization is about 20s and 40s. - Employee Background: There are many people who have experience in developing Web services and business systems. - Development Environment: Linux, MySQL Java, PHP Docker K8s, Jobnet

Stakeholders

- Internal development team, producers

- Development team India

Why This position

- Rakuten Edy, Inc. is promoting the multi-cloud integration of its major systems with the aim of building and operating high-availability systems across the company

- Lead position of development team - Develop application and communicate with business side as well.

Mandatory Qualifications:

- 5+ years of experience in web application development (System Requirements Definition). - Proven experience as a Project Manager (PJM) leading a development team of at least 5 members - Native-level proficiency in Japanese. - Experience in utilizing AI for requirements documentation and project management.

Desired Qualifications: - Experience in designing large amounts of data processing. - Experience in designing front-end and back-end APIs in an integrated manner.

- Experience in PMO (Project Management Office)

Languages:

English (Overall - 1 - Beginner), Japanese (Overall - 4 - Business)

Others Information: Additional information on Location NBF Shinagawa Tower 　 Additional information on Secondment You will be transferred from Rakuten Group, Inc. to Rakuten Edy, Inc

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