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Backend Engineer

PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo June 6 2025
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🌏
    Apply from abroad
    Relocate to Japan
  • 💬
    No Japanese required
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Intermediate level
    3+ years experience required

About PayPay

PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo

With over 70M million registered users (as of July 2025), PayPay is the country’s most popular mobile wallet used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan.

Key benefits

  • International engineering team
  • 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.

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

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 the root cause! Support the code you write in production.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of 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.
  • Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 3+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development.

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • 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 is a plus (We have a professional translator but it is nice to have language skills)
  • Experience in microservices

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