Compensation

€67K - 100K

Remote within

European Union

Timezones

CET (-2/+2 hours)

Contract type

Full time

Remote working

Technologies & frameworks

Scala
Rust
AWS
Go
RESTful API
GraphQL

Benefits & perks

Pension contributions
Diverse management team
Japanese speaking lessons
2 months relocation/housing

Change how payments are made in Japan with a real time distributed platform, handling millions of users -

Role overview

Paidy is Japan's pioneer and leading BNPL service with the mission to spread trust through society and to give people room to dream.

Paidy offers instant, monthly-consolidated credit to consumers by removing hassles from payment and purchase experiences. Paidy uses proprietary models and machine learning to underwrite transactions in seconds and guarantee payments to merchants. Paidy increases revenue for merchants by reducing the number of incomplete transactions, increasing conversion rates, boosting average order values, and facilitating repeat purchases from consumers.

About

Paidy is looking for an experienced Remote Senior Software Engineer (EU based) to join our API & Identity Management team. This is a Senior-level position.

By joining the team, you will take ownership of our publicly facing APIs, keeping them versioned, consistent and secure. You will apply the latest standards in Authn/Authz and manage a growing base of millions of users. Within your role, you are also required to set the gold standard and guidelines for all teams providing internal APIs.

The candidate needs to be a resident in EU countries, preferably between GMT 0 / +3.

Key Role and Responsibilities

Own your services, from tech design to deployment and monitoring.
Work with modern languages and frameworks, cloud infrastructure and authentication layers, solving real problems impacting millions of users.
Get a chance to touch different aspects of Paidy's ecosystem: Consumer, Merchant, Partner APIs and internal services.
Share your knowledge within the engineering domain and contribute in evolving best practices and culture.

Our tech stack:

AWS architecture (API Gateway, Cognito, Lambda, ECS Fargate).
Rust, Go, Scala.
Docker, Terraform.
CircleCI.
DataDog.

Skills and Requirements

Broad software development experience with one or more modern general-purpose programming languages including, but not limited to, Rust, Go and Scala.
Extensive experience with AWS cloud ecosystem.
Experience with designing and building secure REST / GraphQL APIs at scale.
Solid understanding of OAuth2 protocol.
Confidence with Docker and Terraform development tools as well as CI/CD.
Working proficiency in English.
Willingness to learn new technologies and collaborate with distributed and multidisciplinary teams.
Passion and sense of ownership.

Extras

Paidy team will ask about your user eperiences with Paidy Apps during the interview. Please download Paidy App and try it out!
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/paidy/id1220373112
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paidy.paidy&hl=en&gl=US

For those who are not able to download Paidy App, due to the regional restrictions, please be advised that you download the similar App, such as Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm and so forth, and come up with your opinions on these applications and services.

Paidy

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Paidy was founded with the mission to create a world of “We remove the barriers, embrace simplicity”, offering its real-time monthly consolidated credit service all across Japan. Paidy started Japan’s first instant post-pay credit service for ecommerce consumers in October 2014. Paidy requires no pre-registration or credit card to use; Paidy consumers purchase products online using only a mobile phone number and email address (verification is established though a four-digit code via SMS or voice pin-code) and settle a single monthly bill for all their purchases, either at a convenience store, by bank transfer or auto debit. Paidy also supports multi-pay installments and subscriptions. There are currently almost 4,000,000 Paidy accounts in use (Oct 2020)!! Paidy has proved a powerful means of persuading first time buyers to transact online. Its proprietary models and machine learning mean that transactions are underwritten in seconds, with guaranteed payment to merchants. Paidy increases merchant revenues by reducing incomplete transactions, increasing conversion rates, boosting average order values, and facilitating easy repeat buying.

Pension Contributions

Diverse Management Team

Typed Functional Programming

Relocation Support

Late Stage Venture

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