About PayPay Securities
PayPay is a FinTech company that has surpassed 63 million users (as of April 2024) in 5 years since its launch in 2018, is rapidly expanding its business scale as a payment platform used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan.
PayPay Securities Corporation provides a unique and familiar asset management service that anyone can easily use in their daily lives as a specialized smartphone brokerage firm that can be used through PayPay.
As a member of the PayPay Group, we are refining our products at an overwhelming speed that no other company can imitate, and we will promote the spread of cashless payments in Japan and the financial life platform that uses them at a dash. We are looking for people who are passionate about these things as professionals, who can identify issues on their own, and who can work together with others to create new value.
※ Please note that you cannot apply or be selected in parallel with PayPay Corporation, PayPay Card Corporation and PayPay Securities Corporation.
Job Description
PayPay Securities, as an important part of PayPay’s financial ecosystem, 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. Now that the business foundation of the financial ecosystem is finally in place, we intend to expand our business to change the structure of asset management in Japan, with the main target being those who have not yet started asset management or were not interested in it before.
To achieve our goal, PayPay Securities is preparing to bring in technical talents not only from Japan but also globally, just as we have done with PayPay’s product division. As a Senior 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.
Highlights of the opportunity:
- Be part of the team to build up a new organization and environment
- Total involvement in the redesign and renewal of existing products
- Gain experience in a company that aiming to be the pioneer in the market to provide a brand new Mobile Securities services, which never had before during the era of Financial reformation
- Able to utilize PayPay’s services and user base
Responsibilities:
- Develop and operate the Backend Application system for PayPay Securities product (PHP, Java, SpringBoot, MySQL/AuroraDB)
- Present issues and solutions to achieve the vision and goals of the organization and the product, and lead the implementation
- Design large scale systems with high complexity to support our high throughput applications
- Understand how to leverage infrastructure for solving such large scale problems
- Actively provide feedback to team members via CodeReview and KnowdgeSharing to improve product quality and team technical skills
- Plan and lead the execution of long-term improvements in the technical quality of the backend code base
- Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible
- Adopt problem solving as a way of life – always go to root cause!
- Hire and train backend engineers
Qualifications:
- 5+ 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
- 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
- Experience 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
- Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 5+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development
- Business level in either English or Japanese (JLPT N1)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in working for system development in securities, finance, or similar industries
- Experience in developing inhouse Product/Service
The ideal candidates at PayPay Securities
Working Conditions
Employment Status
- Full Time
Office Location
- Tokyo Office
- You can live anywhere in Japan
Work Hours
- Super Flex Time (No Core Time)
- In principle, 9:00am-6:00pm (actual working hours: 8h + 1h break)
Holidays
- Every Saturday/Sunday/National holidays (in Japan)
Paid leave
- Annual paid leave (1 to 10 days depending on the month of joining will be granted upon employment date)
- Summer break (2 days / generally taken between July 1st and September 30th / subject to change depending on month of employment)
- Year-end and New Year holidays (12/31-1/3)
Salary
- Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)
- Based on skills, experience and abilities
- Review once a year
- Special Incentive once a year *Based on company performance and individual contribution and evaluation
- Overtime allowance, Late overtime allowance, Commuting and transportation expenses, Work style support allowance
Benefits
- Social Insurances (Health insurance, Employee pension, Employment insurance and Industrial accident compensation insurance)
