Senior Backend Engineer

FinTech company providing accessible and convenient fintech services integrated with the PayPay payment platform.
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
1,000 - 5,000 Employees
5+ years of experience
Finance

Description For Senior Backend Engineer

PayPay Card, established in 2021, is a FinTech company that's part of the rapidly expanding PayPay ecosystem in Japan. With over 65 million users, PayPay is used by approximately one in two smartphone users in Japan. We're seeking backend engineers to build and rebuild robust, scalable, and maintainable services.

Our mission is to revolutionize the credit card industry by:

  1. Enhancing the credit card experience through new functionalities and integration with the PayPay ecosystem.
  2. Re-architecting our systems landscape to power a top-notch user experience.

As a backend engineer, you'll:

  • Design and deliver large-scale, complex systems
  • Manage stakeholders across various teams
  • Leverage infrastructure to solve large-scale problems
  • Act as a gatekeeper for team quality standards
  • Debug and resolve product issues
  • Mentor team members

Our tech stack includes:

  • Backend: Spring Boot (Java 11/17), some legacy Java EE
  • Testing: JUnit, Mockito
  • Deployment: AWS ECS, CodePipeline
  • Infrastructure: AWS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch
  • Tools: GitHub, IntelliJ, Gradle, Confluence, Miro, JIRA, Slack, Zoom, Office 365

We're looking for candidates with:

  • Excellent Java and Spring Boot skills
  • Experience with databases and distributed computing
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and OOP
  • Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures
  • Degree in Computer Engineering/Science or 5+ years equivalent experience
  • English business proficiency

We offer:

  • Flexible work hours and location (anywhere in Japan)
  • Competitive salary with annual reviews and special incentives
  • Comprehensive benefits including social insurance and 401K
  • Opportunities for growth in a multicultural, fast-paced environment

Join us in shaping the future of fintech in Japan!

Last updated 15 days ago

Responsibilities For Senior Backend Engineer

  • Design, support the implementation and deliver large scale, and complex, systems
  • Manage teams stakeholders such as product managers or frontend engineers but also other team leads or non-tech stakeholders
  • Leverage the infrastructure to solve such large scale problems
  • Acts as a gatekeeper to the team quality standard
  • Triage, debug and resolve product issues or other incoming inquiries
  • Mentor other team members and saveguard the team quality standards

Requirements For Senior Backend Engineer

Java
MySQL
MongoDB
Redis
  • Excellent skills in Java and Spring Boot
  • Experience with RDBMS 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 and event-driven architectures
  • Experience designing high traffic systems
  • Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 5+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development
  • English business proficiency

Benefits For Senior Backend Engineer

401k
Medical Insurance
  • Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
  • 401K
  • Annual leave
  • Flexible work hours
  • Work from anywhere in Japan

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