Senior Backend Engineer

FinTech company with over 65M users, offering payment solutions with team members from 50+ countries.
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
501 - 1,000 Employees
5+ years of experience
Finance

Description For Senior Backend Engineer

PayPay, a rapidly growing FinTech company with over 65M users since 2018, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our diverse team representing over 50 countries. We're revolutionizing the payment industry in Japan with our innovative solutions.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll be instrumental in designing and implementing large-scale systems for our high-throughput payment applications. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies including Java, Kotlin, Scala, and various AWS services, while contributing to our microservices architecture.

The role offers exciting opportunities to:

  • Design and implement complex, high-performance payment systems
  • Work with modern tech stack including Spring Boot, Kubernetes, and various databases
  • Contribute to open source projects and develop internal tools
  • Collaborate with a diverse, international team

We offer a flexible work environment with our WFA (Work From Anywhere at Anytime) policy, competitive compensation including annual salary reviews and special incentives, and comprehensive benefits including 401K and visa sponsorship.

The ideal candidate will have strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed computing, with 5+ years of experience in SaaS platform development. Experience in finance or payment industries is a plus.

Join us in creating a future beyond imagination, where you'll have daily opportunities to grow and tackle exciting challenges in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Last updated 4 days ago

Responsibilities For Senior Backend Engineer

  • Design large scale systems with high complexity to support high throughput applications
  • Leverage infrastructure for solving large scale problems
  • Develop tools and contribute to open source
  • Support code in production and perform root cause analysis
  • Participate in code reviews to maintain high quality standards
  • Provide technical guidance and design directions to team members
  • Identify and implement performance improvements
  • Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders

Requirements For Senior Backend Engineer

Java
Kotlin
Scala
MySQL
Redis
Kafka
Kubernetes
  • Excellent skills in Java or other programming languages (Scala, Python, Go)
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and distributed cache
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and OOP
  • In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing
  • Experience implementing RESTful APIs, Pub/Sub Systems, and Database Clients
  • Experience with microservices
  • Experience designing high traffic systems
  • Degree in Computer Engineering/Science or 5+ years equivalent experience
  • Business level English or Japanese

Benefits For Senior Backend Engineer

401k
Medical Insurance
Visa Sponsorship
Relocation Benefits
  • Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
  • 401K
  • Translation/Interpretation support
  • VISA sponsor + Relocation support
  • Super Flex Time (No Core Time)
  • Work from anywhere allowance (JPY100,000)
  • Annual leave up to 14 days in first year
  • Personal leave 5 days each year
  • Special Incentive once a year

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