PayPay Corporation
PayPay Corporation

Backend Engineer

April 21, 2025
Full-time
Remote · Japan
Mid-Senior level
Back-end Developer

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

Main 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.

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

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • Business of English or Japanese

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