About the Job

Among the development of the multi-QR payment system, I am mainly in charge of the development of the backyard part of the system for internal use. Currently, I am mainly dealing with accounting-related specification changes in the “cross-border EC” and “electronic payment system”.

Until now, we have been dealing with two separate teams for “mini-program development” and “other development,” but there has been a move to unify the specifications to some extent, and now we are doing more specification changes and putting together designs than we are doing major development.

Systems are always required to improve their performance and renew their operations according to business needs, so I feel a sense of accomplishment when I make modifications to make them even better. In particular, I feel that the accounting-related parts of the system are becoming better and better as I use them myself for testing.

How do you communicate in a multilingual environment?

Although my department is relatively Chinese-speaking, we are able to discuss matters in Japanese as well.

Basically, a Japanese-speaking person will come in between me and a Chinese member who is not good at Japanese, so I often proceed while checking with that person over and over again. However, I think that the process of checking things over and over again is no different when dealing with Japanese people. Since we talk about the system with other people who are developing the same thing, we never fail to communicate with each other. When there are complicated expressions in the documents, I try to paraphrase them or show them in diagrams to make sure that we are on the same page. We are a department that requires accuracy, so we are very thorough in our efforts.
Although we are working in a multilingual environment, we have never had any language miscommunication in our development work together.

During my lunch break, I usually go out to eat with my colleagues in my department. We speak a mixture of Chinese and Japanese, but we have normal chit-chat about where we went on our days off and so on.
Sometimes I even go alone. If I really want to eat something, that is.

Do you have any goals for the future?

I hope to be someone who can be relied on as a developer, or someone who people outside the company, as well as within the company, think, “If this person can make it, there will be no problem.

And technically speaking, I want to be able to do anything quickly, rather than wanting to do this in the future.

I don’t know what kind of development I will do with the system, so rather than specializing in something, I want to be a so-called full-stack engineer who can handle any field as a system specialist.