Backend Engineer

PayPay is a FinTech company that has grown to over 65M users since its launch in 2018, with a diverse team from over 50 countries.
Backend
Mid-Level Software Engineer
Remote
1,000 - 5,000 Employees
3+ years of experience
Finance

Description For Backend Engineer

PayPay, a rapidly growing FinTech company with over 65M users, is seeking a Backend engineer to work on their payment system. The ideal candidate will design large-scale systems, leverage infrastructure for high-throughput applications, and contribute to open-source projects. With a diverse team from over 50 countries, PayPay offers a dynamic work environment where you'll face new challenges daily.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing complex, large-scale systems
  • Understanding and leveraging infrastructure for high-throughput applications
  • Developing tools and contributing to open-source projects
  • Adopting a problem-solving mindset and supporting code in production

The tech stack includes Java, Kotlin, Scala, Spring Boot, MySQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and more.

Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of Java experience or excellent skills in languages like Scala, Python, or Go
  • Experience with NoSQL databases and distributed cache
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and OOP
  • In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing
  • Degree in Computer Engineering/Science or equivalent experience
  • Business-level English or Japanese

PayPay offers a flexible work environment with their WFA (Work From Anywhere at Anytime) policy, competitive salary, and comprehensive benefits including social insurance, 401K, and visa sponsorship.

Join PayPay to be part of a company that dares to create a future beyond imagination, constantly taking risks and challenging themselves in the exciting world of FinTech.

Last updated 6 days ago

Responsibilities For Backend Engineer

  • Design large scale systems with high complexity to support high throughput applications
  • Understand how to leverage infrastructure for solving large scale problems
  • Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible
  • Adopt problem solving as a way of life – always go to the root cause
  • Support the code you write in production

Requirements For Backend Engineer

Java
Kotlin
Scala
MySQL
Kafka
Redis
  • 3+ years of experience in using Java or excellent skills in languages like Scala, Python, and Go
  • Experience with NoSQL databases and distributed cache
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and object oriented programming
  • In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing
  • Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 3+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development
  • Business level English or Japanese

Benefits For Backend Engineer

401k
Medical Insurance
Visa Sponsorship
Relocation Benefits
  • Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
  • 401K
  • Translation/Interpretation support
  • VISA sponsor + Relocation support
  • Late overtime allowance
  • Work from anywhere allowance (JPY100,000)

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