Compensation

Competitive

Contract type

Full time

Sponsorship offered

Technologies & frameworks

Akka
Distributed Systems
Functional Programming
Scala
typelevel

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 looking for an experienced Scala Engineer to join our new Payments Engineering team.

We are creating a dedicated team to support the continued growth of Paidy's payment systems. The team will be taking ownership of the existing payment systems, and will further develop and maintain them. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, working with other teams on identifying requirements, and delivering new functionality.

You will work on the API gateways and backend services that are used by Paidy’s users and merchants to create and manage payments. You will be involved in all stages of the development cycle. You will be able to share best practices and set standards for your team and other teams in Paidy's engineering organization. You will be able to leave your mark on the engineering culture as well.

The Payments Engineering team is part of the Mega Merchants Engineering department.

The Mega Merchants Team

This team designs, builds and maintains the solutions that enable seamless integrations for Paidy's merchants.

We work together with the Product team from early stages, and collaborate with other departments and teams. We solve new and unique engineering challenges, for example, to support SLAs for APIs.

About you

You are passionate about getting things done and into production. The code that you write is functional. You have experience with the Typelevel ecosystem (for example, cats, cats-effect). You are comfortable working with existing Scala code bases. Consistency across services and projects is important to you.

You enjoy the interactions with your peers, and look for mentoring and growth opportunities.

Key responsibilities

Design, develop, and deliver new features on our RESTful API gateways and backend services.

Collaborate with distributed and multidisciplinary teams
Assist in requirements identification and in producing specifications
Contribute and adhere to coding standards, best practices, and procedures

Required

Knowledge of Functional Programming, Scala, and the Typelevel ecosystem
Understanding of software architecture and design with the ability to align the overall service architecture
Experience with building distributed systems, scalability and high throughput software
Experience with maintaining and further developing existing code bases
Comfortable with knowledge sharing, working on a team and building relationships
Shows interest in the organization’s engineering strategy, product development strategy and how that aligns to the overall business strategy
Ability to define task outlines and deliverables
Demonstrates a sense of urgency when required
Ability to manage some ambiguity and exercises good judgement when needed
Ability to give and receive constructive feedback tactfully upstream and downstream

Nice to have

Experience with Akka Cluster, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka
Experience with Event Sourcing and CQRS
Understanding of JVM internals and performance optimization
Experience with CircleCI, AWS, Fargate, Terraform, Datadog
Experience working on a payment platform or other fintech field

Paidy

50-249

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

Late Stage Venture

Technology