Backend Engineer

PayPay Securities Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo April 4 2026
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡
    Fully remote
    From Japan
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 💬
    No Japanese required
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Intermediate level
    3+ years experience required
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About PayPay Securities

PayPay Securities Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

PayPay Securities has launched “Point Management” with over 10 million users and “PayPay Asset Management", the first initiative in Japan that enables asset management on a payment application.

Key benefits

  • Part of PayPay Group
  • Entering a second startup phase
  • Internationalize the engineering division

About the position

As a Backend Engineer, you will be collaborating with engineers, designers and QAs, and working in an environment where you can be one of the founding members to build up a new organization within PayPay Securities.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and operate the Backend Application system for PayPay Securities product (PHP, Java, SpringBoot, Kotlin, MySQL/AuroraDB)
  • 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!

Requirements

  • 3+ years experience in developing Backend Application for company products
  • Experience in using Java/PHP 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 5+ 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 system design, development of web system which handles massive amount of transactions or requires scalability
  • Experience with Microservices
  • Experience in working for system development in securities, finance, or similar industries
  • Experience in developing inhouse Product/Service

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Application Review Coding Test or Take Home Assignment

    Only applied to required positions.

  2. 2

    2-3 Interviews

    Including both technical and behavioral interview

  3. 3

    Offer Meeting

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