Senior Software Engineer

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 Senior Software Engineer, who is ready to make an impact by accelerating growth in the number of Paidy users over the upcoming months. Showcase your entrepreneurial spirit!

Key Role and Responsibilities

You will be responsible for developing and scaling our merchant platform while meeting the highest standards in terms of security, maintainability and resilience to failure. You will meet regularly with the product team to align software delivery with business goals. With the help of your team members, you will come up with software design tradeoffs and communicate them clearly to other engineers as well as product team members to implement mutually agreed-upon solutions. You will also have the opportunity to work cross-functionally in feature teams to deliver product features and services. In addition to regular deliverables expected of the engineering team, you are expected to follow and stay current with industry best practices -- such as writing automated tests and taking part in regular code reviews to ensure quality code at its highest possible standards. We look forward to meeting you!

• Actively participate in diagnosing and resolving production incidents, ensuring timely fixes and clear communication with peers and stakeholders
• Contribute to incident reviews by providing technical insights and documenting the root cause, resolution steps and preventive measures
• Collaborate with the team to apply post-mortem learnings to improve system reliability and code quality
• Develop software with strong focus on adhering to relevant legal, regulatory and compliance requirements
• Ensure code, APIs and data handling practices comply with established organizational and industry standards
• Follow governance processes, documentation practices and audit requirements as part of the software development cycle

Our tech stack: 

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

Skills and Requirements

Required Skills to have:

• 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 curiosity to suggest performance 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

Good 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

What We Offer You

• Diversified team with 230+ colleagues from 30+ countries
• Exciting work opportunities in a rapid-growing organization
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Hybrid remote work model - minimum 2 times in office per week (subject to change at company discretion)
• Competitive salary and benefits

Paidy Values

Be a winner / 勝ちにこだわる

• Always seek to beat expectations / 期待値を超える為に常に努力する
• Display surprising speed and resourcefulness / 人をスピードと機知で驚かす
• Overcome weaknesses by leveraging the strength and help of others to win / 仲間の強みを活かしたり協力を得ることで、自身の弱みや足りない点を克服する

Own and deliver, together / 共に結果を出す

• Fully support the final decision even if at times you may disagree / たとえ意見が対立することがあったとしても、最終決定を全面的に受け入れ支持する
• Acknowledge and gather the power of others, by communicating and collaborating with them / 仲間の力を認めて活用し、積極的にコミュニケーションをとり、協力する
• Show a will to own actions and go the extra mile without being asked / 行動について強いオーナーシップを持ち、言われずとも業務を遂行しきる覚悟を持つ

Be a valued team member / 価値を認められるメンバーになる

• Strive to play an integral role / 替えの効かない役割を果たす
• Embrace and bridge differences in perspective, language and culture / 異なる意見・考え方、言語と文化の架け橋になる
• Don’t compromise - raise the bar for yourself and others / スタンダードを上げ続けることに妥協しない