Scala Software Engineer

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.

Paidy has reached an agreement to join PayPal, the global payments company. Paidy will continue to operate its existing business, maintain its brand, and support a wide variety of consumer wallets and marketplaces by providing convenient and innovative services.

Paidy continues to innovate to make shopping easier and more fun both online and offline. For more information, please visit http://www.paidy.com.

About the Position

Paidy is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our KYC team. By joining the team, you will take ownership of our services that enable KYC (Know-Your-Customers) for the Paidy platform, which is a crucial component allowing our users to use Paidy products across thousands of merchants in Japan. On a typical day, you will build new features in Scala, publish / consume events with Kafka, maintain best in class REST APIs and deploy services to AWS using Terraform. You will take part in design sessions with your teammates and reach out to stakeholders like Risk and Data team.

Key Role and Responsabilities

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

Our tech stack:

• AWS architecture (Lambda, ECS Fargate).
• Scala, Python.
• Kafka, Postgres, Aurora, Cassandra.
• Docker, Terraform.
• CircleCI.
• DataDog.

Skills and Requirements

• Knowledge of software development best practices and proficiency in developing web apps/microservices using Scala.
• Solid knowledge of AWS cloud ecosystem
• 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
• Exposure / Experience with functional programming in Scala using Typelevel ecosystem is an added benefit

What We Offer You

• The opportunity to make a significant impact on the vibrant Japanese market, building products affecting millions of users every month
• A diverse culture that accepts everyone's values and opinions, working with talented people coming from 20+ countries
• An attractive salary and the latest equipment of your choice (MacOS, Windows, Linux).
• Remote working & Flexible working

Send your resume to paidy@scalajobs.com