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Backend Engineer

PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥6.5M ~ ¥15M annually
  • 🏡 Fully remote
  • 🧪 3+ years experience required
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About PayPay

PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo

With over 55 million registered users (as of February 2023), PayPay is the country’s most popular mobile wallet. Half of all of Japan's smartphone users are using it, and more than 2 billion payments made per year.

Key benefits

  • International engineering team
  • Japanese lessons on company time
  • Incredible scale

About the position

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

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.

Qualifications

  • Experience in using Java under professional environment, or if you are non-Java user, excellent skills in generalized programming languages, such as Scala, Python and Go.
  • Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
  • 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.
  • 3+ years professional backend development experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with implementing platform components such as RESTful APIs, Pub/Sub Systems, Database Clients.
  • Experience with AWS services.
  • Experience in working for system development in finance, payment, or similar industries
  • Experience in system design, development of web system which handles massive amount of transactions or requires scalability
  • Language ability in Japanese and English is a plus (We have a professional translator but it is nice to have language skills)
  • Experience in microservices

Compensation

6.5 to 15 million JPY annually.

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