What is Rakuten? Engineer Recruiting Team, Global Human Resources department, Rakuten Inc.

15 years ago, a big dream was born to empower the world by the internet

Now Rakuten is the largest E-commerce company in Japan.

Group consolidated sales Our Growth Group consolidated sales over 40 services in 15 countries

e-G8 forum among top web companies Our Presence e-G8 forum among top web companies Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) Maurice Levy (Publicis) Hiroshi Mikitani (Rakuten Inc.) Yuri Milner (DST) Stephane Richard (Orange) Eric Schmidt (Google) in May, 2011. @ Paris

Harvard Business School(MBA) Our Presence Ranked among the top 10 for 2 years in a row アジアのIT企業 代表としてG8に参加 2012 2013 Harvard Business School(MBA) ケーススタディ化

Our Market Cap We need to grow faster and become the world’s No.1 internet services company! As of Sep, 2012

Rapid Global Expansion In 2012 In 2011 ~2008 In 2009 In 2010 In 2013 **investment 2005 2013

Keep expanding out to the world!! Global Locations ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Head Office ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Keep expanding out to the world!! ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● E-Commerce eBook Travel Other service & business　 ● Rakuten Institute of Technology　　 Development center Regional Head quarter ● ● ● ● ●

Our Business Model

Our EC business model is very unique! B2B2C Market Place Model Our EC business model is very unique! EC sites in US: Product-centric Rakuten Ichiba: Shop-centric Rakuten’s “EMPOWERMENT” model not only provides the entertainment of shopping for the end-users but also a strong business strategy for the company

Rakuten Ichiba has millions of items! Long Tail & Direct Sell Rakuten Ichiba has millions of items! There is nothing you can’t find at Rakuten!! Crab Price: 80 USD Eggs Price: 16 USD

Japanese Armor! Price: 2,500 USD A Real Castle! Price: 10,000,000 USD Long Tail & Direct Sell Japanese Armor! Price: 2,500 USD A Real Castle! Price: 10,000,000 USD

Strong bonds between Rakuten & Shop owners! Empowerment With such a Shop-centric model… Shop owners and Rakuten employees get together! Strong bonds between Rakuten & Shop owners! Strategy meeting with shop owners

Rakuten Eco-system Strategy E-commerce Travel e-book Rakuten Super Point Common ID Portal Telecom User DB Bank Insurance Securities Card E-money

Rakuten’s success depends on you! Challenges Most of our services are still in their early stages. Unlike other large companies, you can maximize your potential and stand up to new challenges. Rakuten’s success depends on you!

Engineers in Rakuten

Total number of engineers: 1400 Engineers in Rakuten Average Age: 31.5 Total number of engineers: 1400 21% 79% 25% 75% Coming from over 40 countries! As of end of 07/2013

Where Mid-career Engineers Came From previous company Google Amazon Microsoft Yahoo Apple GREE NHN Japan Accenture Wipro HUAWEI Nokia

Middleware (DB, Webserver, etc) System Structure User interface End user App A App B App C ・・・・・・ App common (Platform) Middleware (DB, Webserver, etc) Hardware Infra Data center / Network

Middleware (DB, Webserver, etc) Area of Coverage User interface End user System consultant Web App App A App B App C ・・・・・・ System Integrator / Software App common (Platform) Middleware (DB, Webserver, etc) Hardware Network / Infra Infra Data center / Network

Area of Coverage (by Department) End user User interface RIT Smart Device Technologies Dep. App A App B App C Rakuten Ichiba Dep. Rakuten Travel Dep. Financial Services Dep. ・・・・・・ GIS App common (Platform) Group Core Service Dep. Architecture Committee Office Middleware (DB, Webserver, etc) Big Data Dep. ITD Hardware Infra Global Infrastructure Dep. Data center / Network

You can Enjoy Everything! Various technologies in a wide range of services

Career Steps for Engineers Years Org Mgr Infra Specialist Top Eng Project Mgr Product Mgr Architect 5~7 3 Infra Eng App Eng

Learning Opportunities GEP (Global Experience program)

Learning Opportunities Overseas Conference (1 time/year) Study Sessions (very often) Pics of study session

We’d like to work with people who… are technology lovers have creativity, ambition and skills to change the world want to empower various lifestyles love your service, love your customers

Video interview & Programming test Selection Process CV (Resume) 2~3 weeks Video interview & Programming test For the online test, please choose one computer language from below [Java/PHP/Ruby/Python/Perl/C++] 1st interview via Skype 2nd interview (on-site) 1 day Offer

Thank you!!

Brief Introduction of each department Appendix Brief Introduction of each department

Rakuten Ichiba Development dep. Rakuten Ichiba Department aims to build the best ecommerce platform to support the expansion of Rakuten e-commerce businesses around the world. Themes Abbreviation Product 1) Empowering Merchants RMS Rakuten Merchandise System 2) Shopping is Entertainment MALL Regionalized Mall 3) Operational Excellence IBSS Ichiba Business Support System 4) Grow Ecosystem IDP Ichiba Developer Portal

Rakuten Travel Development dep. Hotel of Contracted （Hotel / Ryokan etc.） Registration Customer ①Contract http://travel.rakuten.co.jp/ ④Registration （Free） ②Provides interface from ASP ⑤Search ③More hotel’s info, Registered room inventory ⑨1% to 10% of points ⑥Reservation information transmission ⑧Pay Commission & point uses. ⑦Stay（Payment） Rakuten Travel empowers the whole travel industry by directly connecting hotels & customers to one another.

Financial Services dep. Financial Services Department Bank Services Group Rakuten Bank BU in charge Financial Services Group Several financial BUs in charge Credit Card Section Rakuten Bank BU in charge FSG develops and operates Financial Services, and make synergy among Rakuten eco-System!

Many new services are run and generated in this department. New Services dep. Media Community Others Many new services are run and generated in this department.

Books & Logistics dep. Build cutting edge logistics system with ADS & Webgistics. Supporting e-book business with technical solutions.

Group Core Services dep. ID Service Point Service Coupon Service Mail Platform Payment Platform Super DB This department provides Functions & Services, which can be used by any Rakuten Services.

Open Services Platform dep. Team & Role Develop and maintain services that can help increase the GMS for Rakuten Eco system by creating relationship with outside resource and leverage it.

Big Data dep. Ads Data analysis Purchase data and Browsing data Personalization KPI report Targeting Re-Targeting Data analysis Price Optimization Targeting Recommendation data User Behavior Tracking Inventory Optimization Inventory data

Global Infrastructure Development dep. System Engineering’s territory Server Database Network Storage Datacenter Cloud and so on..

Smart Device Technologies dep. Mobile Application Group Mobile Web Group Mobile Vision & Product Group Windows Technology Group Make awesome Smart Device apps for Rakuten Services!

Architecture Committee Office App App App App App PaaS SDK Operation Tools Application Runtime Data Services Middleware IaaS Public Cloud Network Operating System Hardware PaaS supports multiple programming language and IaaS services by Cloud Foundry – OSS software.

Developing Architecture dep. EMA EmpoweringDU Be more Tech Be more Agile Be more Effective Sharing Technology Group Development Environment Service Group Agile Group QA Group Dev-HR Group Environment Improvement Group Diversity Training Team Technology Training Team Provide the best environment to global Rakuten DU for continuous creation of innovative services.

Rakuten Institute of Technology Strategic R&D organization for Rakuten Power Intelligence Reality ・Distributed computing ・High performance computing ・Knowledge mining ・NLP / Recommender ・Multimedia Processing ・Ubiquitous / next UI 「大量のデータが蓄積されているので活用していく必要がある」のようなストレートな背景のほうがいいかもしれない。