Job Description

PayPay India is looking for a Senior 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 root cause! Support the code you write in production.
• [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]

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

• 6+ years of experience having excellent skills in Java & any other generalized programming language, such as Scala, Python, or Go.
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, along with 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, and Database Clients.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience designing high traffic systems.
• Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 5+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development.
• Business of English or Japanese　
• [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]

Preferred Qualifications

• • Experience in working for system development in finance, payment, or similar industries.
  • Language ability in Japanese and English is a plus (We have a professional translator but it is nice to have language skills).
  • Experience with AWS services.
  • Leverage AI/LLM-based tools in daily workflows (e.g., code development, reviews, testing, debugging, documentation), while ensuring human oversight, judgment, and accountability drive the final product.
  • [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]

Remarks

＊Please note that you cannot apply for PayPay (Japan-based jobs) or other positions in parallel or in duplicate.

PayPay 5 senses

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