About Paidy Inc.

Paidy is Japan's pioneer and leading BNPL service company. At Paidy, we believe in creating simple, instant experiences to take the hassle out of shopping with a touch of magic.

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 Position

We are looking for a passionate, innovative and dedicated Team Lead, who is ready to make an impact by developing and improving backend systems, as well as directly communicating with Paidy’s biggest merchants.

The Team Lead will report to the Head of Merchant & Shopping Experience Engineering and will lead projects and team members to develop and improve existing payment systems and APIs that merchants interact with directly. The key responsibilities include technical planning, working with other teams and business stakeholders on identifying requirements, and directly assisting with delivering new functionality. The role has the opportunity to set up best practices and standards for the team in Paidy’s engineering organization.

Key Role and Responsibilities

Lead a team of engineers, providing support to develop their technical skills
Communicate with the head of the department to align on the technical direction of the team and provide support in translating the direction to actionable tasks for team members
Assist in requirement identification and translate requirements into technical specifications
Design, develop, and deliver new features on our backend services by collaborating with distributed and multidisciplinary teams
Develop software with strong focus on legal, regulatory and compliance requirements
Proactively participate in diagnosing and preventing production incidents through fail-safe technical designs
Ensure code, APIs and data handling practices comply with established organizational and industry standards

Our tech stack

AWS architecture
Scala (cats-effect)
Akka
Kafka
Cassandra
Elasticsearch
Docker
Terraform
CircleCI
DataDog

Skills and Requirements

Required skills

Knowledge of one or more high-level statically-typed languages (i.e. Scala, Java, Python, Rust), plus an interest in Functional Programming
At least 5 years of experience working as a backend engineer in an Agile environment
Knowledge of Git
Quality code and testing: legibly written code that is easily understood by others
Address debugging with a systematic approach
Understand automated testing with a desire to suggest relevant improvements
Ability to understand code independently and make intelligent inferences to code in the broader context
Understanding of software architecture and design with the ability to align the overall service architecture
Basic understanding of security measures and how they may implicate the wider system
Comfortable with knowledge sharing, working on a team and building relationships
Show interest in the organization’s engineering strategy, product development strategy and how that aligns with the overall business strategy
Some experience with communicating and translating technical designs to non-technical business stakeholders

Nice to have

Preferably relevant experience in technologies and concepts that we use at Paidy:
- Scala, Cassandra, Kafka, Postgres, Functional Programming, REST API, microservices architecture, JSON, Avro, CI/CD, AWS, Fargate, Terraform, Git, Data streaming, ElasticSearch, Redis, Event Sourcing, unit/functional testing, cats, cats-effect, tagless final, CQRS, event sourcing
Solid understanding of event sourcing in Kafka
Experience building distributed systems
Experience with Akka Cluster and Persistence
Experience with TDD
Understand cross-team interdependencies and work streams
Ability to envision delivery roadmap and articulate this clearly for others to follow
Build relationships with stakeholders throughout the organization
Understand product opportunities, differentiators and competition
Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS
Experience building distributed systems
Demonstrate technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers

Interview

The Paidy team will ask about your user experiences with Paidy Apps during the interview. Please download the Paidy App and try it out!

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.

What We Offer You

Diversified team with 230+ colleagues from 35+ countries
Exciting work opportunities in a rapid-growing organization
Cross-functional collaboration and an opportunity to interact with Japan’s biggest e-commerce merchants
Hybrid remote work model - minimum 2 times in office per week (subject to change at company discretion)
Competitive salary and benefits

Send your resume to paidy.team.lead@scalajobs.com

Software Engineering Team Lead