Remote Backend Engineer

Summary

Join PayPay, a FinTech company with over 65M users, as a Backend Engineer to work on our payment system and deliver the best payment experience for our customers. You will design large scale systems, develop tools, contribute to open source, and adopt problem solving as a way of life.

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
• 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 of English or Japanese

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Language ability in Japanese and English is a plus (We have a professional translator but it is nice to have language skills)

Benefits

• Employment Status: Full Time
• Office Location: WFA(Work From Anywhere at Anytime) Remote Job, You can live anywhere in Japan
• Work Hours: Super Flex Time (No Core Time), In principle, 10:00am-6:45pm (actual working hours: 7h45m + 1h break)
• Holidays: Every Sat/Sun/National holidays (In Japan)/New Year's break/Company-designated Special days
• Paid leave. Annual leave (up to 14 days in the first year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment. Can be used from the date of hire), Personal leave (5 days each year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment）
• Salary: Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly), Based on skills, experience, and abilities, Reviewed once a year, Special Incentive once a year *Based on company performance and individual contribution and evaluation, Late overtime allowance, Work from anywhere allowance (JPY100,000)
• Benefits: Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance), 401K, Translation/Interpretation support, VISA sponsor + Relocation support