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Frontend Engineer

PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo November 20 2025
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🌏
    Apply from abroad
    Relocate to Japan
  • 💬
    No Japanese required
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Intermediate level
    4+ 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
  • Japanese lessons on company time
  • Incredible scale

About the position

We are looking for a web frontend engineer to join PayPay. You will be building features that change how people in Japan use and manage their finances and business. As a fast-paced company leading the payments industry, we need our engineers to be versatile and enthusiastic to take on new challenges in order to stay at the forefront.

Tech Stack

  • TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS
  • Vue.js, React, NestJS, Express.js, single-spa
  • Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS, GH Actions, Terraform, Gatling
  • GitHub, npm/yarn, Jenkins, Webpack, Jest, i18n, Storybook
  • Sentry, Kibana, Google Analytics, Firebase, NewRelic
  • Figma, PlantUML, draw.io
  • Slack, Zoom, Confluence, Jira

Responsibilities

  • Work with Product Managers, Designers and various tech teams to implement features.
  • Contribute to the team by sharing knowledge, participating in code reviews, and providing feedback to uphold and ensure best practices.
  • Triage, debug, and resolve product issues.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of industry experience developing secure web frontend applications in JavaScript and/or other transpile-to-JavaScript languages.
  • At least 1 year of industry experience with VueJS (preferred), or React.
  • Software engineering best practices and computer science knowledge.

Nice to haves

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

  • Experience with frontend performance monitoring and optimization.
  • Experience with iOS or Android development, either with the native toolkits or with a framework such as React Native.
  • Experience with designing server side RESTful APIs.
  • Experience with web hosting infrastructure such as CDNs.

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