# A Software Engineer's Guide to Working Across Time Zones

DevFeed: [A Software Engineer's Guide to Working Across Time Zones](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-software-engineer-s-guide-to-working-across-time-zones-1285.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/a-software-engineers-guide-to-working-across-time-zones>)

Author: Hui Jing Chen

Published: 2022-10-27T01:31:45Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>), [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [software-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineer.md>), [time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

A software engineer based in Singapore shares practical advice for collaborating across large time-zone differences. The article emphasizes asynchronous communication, deliberate documentation, alternating work coverage, Slack updates, and annotated pull requests, using Shopify projects as examples.

## Source excerpt

A few tips to make asynchronous communication across time zones a positive experience