About PayPay

PayPay, a fintech company, that achieved more than 50M users within around 4 years since its launch in 2018 has hugely diversified employees who are from 40 different countries. To build "PayPay", we allied with Paytm, the biggest payment service company in India. Based on their customer-first technologies , we created and expanded the smartphone payment service in Japan.

Our biggest competitor is "cash". We are seeking for people who can accept this challenge positively, brush up the product at a tremendous speed that other companies could never achieve, and who are passionate about promoting and spreading such a financial life platform in a short time along with professionalism.

Job Description

PayPay is looking for a Senior Backend engineer to work on our payment system to deliver the best payment experience for our customers.

Main Responsibilities

• Design large scale systems with high complexity to support our high throughput applications.
• Understand how to leverage infrastructure for solving such large scale problems.
• Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible.
• Adopt problem solving as a way of life – always go to root cause! Support the code you write in production.
• [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]

Tech Stack

We select the best combination of tech at times.
| Java, Kotlin, Scala
| Spring Boot, JUnit, Reselience4j, Feign
| MySQL/AuoraDB, DynamoDB, ELK, Kafka, Redis, TiDB
| Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS, GCP
| GitHub, IntelliJ, Gradle, Maven, npm/yarn, Flyway, Jenkins, snyk,
| Bigquery, Kibana, Spark
| PlantUML, draw.io, miro.com
| Slack, Zoom

Qualifications

• Excellent skills in Java, or any other generalized programming language, such as Scala, Python, or Go.
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, along with distributed cache.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and object oriented programming.
• In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing.
• Experience implementing platform components such as RESTful APIs, Pub/Sub Systems, and Database Clients.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience designing high traffic systems.
• Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 5+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development.
• Business of English or Japanese　
• [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in working for system development in finance, payment, or similar industries.
• Language ability in Japanese and English is a plus (We have a professional translator but it is nice to have language skills).
• Experience with AWS services.
• [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]

PayPay 5 senses

• Please refer PayPay 5 senses to learn what we value at work.

Working Conditions

Employment Status

• Full Time

Office Location

• WFA(Work From Anywhere at Anytime)
• Remote Job
• You can live anywhere in Japan

Work Hours

• Super Flex Time (No Core Time)
• In principle, 10:00am-6:45pm (actual working hours: 7h45m + 1h break)

Holidays

• Two days off per week (as well as national holidays, New Year's break(December 29th to January 4th))
• Paid leave, congratulatory and bereavement leave, maternity/paternity leave, family care leave etc

Salary

• Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)
• Based on skills, experience, and abilities
• Reviewed once a year
• Special Incentive once a year *Based on company performance and individual contribution and evaluation
• Late overtime allowance, Work from anywhere allowance (JPY100,000)

Benefits

• Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
• 401K
• Language Learning support
• Translation/Interpretation support
• VISA sponsor + Relocation support

Other Information:

• PayPay Inside-Out (Corporate Blog)
  • Tech Talks Series
  • PayPay Professionals Series
  • WFA (work from anywhere, at anytime) series
• PayPay Product Blog