PayPay Card (PayPay カード)- Engineering Manager
About PayPay Card
PayPay is a FinTech company that in the five years since its launch in 2018, has surpassed 65 million
users (as of August 2024) and is rapidly expanding its business scale as a payment platform used by
approximately one in two smartphone users in Japan.
PayPay Card was established in 2021 to provide users with more accessible and convenient FinTech
services that were previously not possible with credit cards and credit services by integrating with the
PayPay payment platform. We are looking for professionals who are passionate about refining our
products at an overwhelming speed that no other company can match, and promoting the spread of
cashless payments in Japan and the financial life platform that uses them. We are looking for people
who are passionate about this.
※ Please note that you cannot apply or be selected in parallel with PayPay Corporation, PayPay Card
Corporation and PayPay Securities Corporation.
Job Description
PayPay Card, member of the PayPay Group, embraced the challenge of internationalizing its
engineering divisions. Additionally, we are revisiting our technical architecture and strive to make it
right, improving scalability, maintainability and performances. To make it happen, we also go
through rethinking our organization and work processes as well. For this reason, we are looking for
Engineering Managers (EM) that not only make teams deliver timely with quality, but also can
contribute to such organization change. As architecture and organization are the two faces of the
same coin, EM and Tech Leads will work closely to align organization roadmap and the architecture
roadmap.
In your day-to-day basis, you will obviously interact with engineers but also a wide range of
stakeholders:
• Product Managers, Designers and QA for project execution
• PMO for project management
• TA for hiring and HRBP for employee lifecycle
• Other managers for long term strategy.
The engineers of your team will all be English speakers but there will be Japanese speakers among
your stakeholders. Having English as our working language is our objective and we are currently
transitioning.
This is a rare opportunity to take part in significant organizational changes as well as unprecedented
technical challenges. While the company business is quite established, the engineering challenges we
are tackling are on par with the hypergrowth style of challenges. You will be able to, and encouraged
to, bring your ideas to sharpen our vision, may it be related to technical, organization or human
matters.
Main Responsibilities
You will be in charge of an application engineering team, most of our teams are backend teams. In
short, your main responsibility is to ensure that the team can operate and grow. This will require you
to switch between tactical leadership, almost being hands-on, and strategic planning. The
environment changes quickly so you will face the challenge to identify the appropriate area of focus,
according to the circumstances. To name some responsibilities you will cover, with a different
degrees of focus depending on the situation:
Execution: support the team to ensure timely and high-quality deliveries
• Tactical
o Assign team members to appropriate projects, depending on the engineer skill sets and
project requirements
o Backup team members to ensure they can progress in their task such as fetching
missing information, defusing conflict, handling emergencies, etc
• Strategic
o Encourage people growth with practices such as efficient 1:1
o Support the end-to-end employee lifecycle: from on-boarding to off-boarding, through
performance evaluation
Operation: create levers to allow the team to continuously improve from delivery, reliability, and
developer experience standpoints
• Tactical
o Identify and address pain points which hinders development, deliveries and developer
experience, from a process, tooling and system perspective.
o Coordinate, and if necessary negotiate or arbitrate, with different stakeholders to
ensure that both product and architecture decisions are sustainable and scalable.
• Strategic
o Architect and implement a development process that suits the team and sustains a
steady development
o Contribute to product and technical roadmap to bring added value to both the product
and the technical stacks owned by the team
Growth: prepare the team(s), and surrounding stakeholders, to organizational and technical changes
to open the path for a healthy growth
• Tactical
o Identify growth opportunity and changes that impacts the team structure, raise them
and contribute to address them if applicable
o Identify missing or bloated communications flows which often calls for a workflow
reconsideration. Similarly, support your team when raised architecture concerns which
calls for a system redesign consideration
• Strategic
o Contribute to the hiring strategy as well as the different hiring implementation steps
o Provide sufficient flexibility in the team structure and processes to get the team ready
for the upcoming changes
Tech Stack
We currently work with
Applications:
• Backend systems: Kotlin + Spring Boot for new systems, Java + Spring Boot or Java EE for
existing systems
• Frontend: Vue.js 3, Nuxt.js, TypeScript
Infrastructure:
• AWS: to deploy services, databases, etc.
• GCP: for BigQuery
Other tools:
• Slack / GitHub / JIRA / Confluence / Google Workspace
Required Qualifications
To provide a portrait of the candidates we are looking, we would like to establish the following skills
as our baseline:
Technical skills: contributing to the implementation
• Has 2 years, or more, of experience of leading web application engineer teams
• Has past experience as software engineer, backend or frontend
• Has proven records of significant contributions to scalable architectures and system designs
• Has solid tasks definition and breakdown skills, when provided functional requirements
Soft skills: interacting smoothly with stakeholders
• Has good stakeholder management, coordination and conflict handling skills
• Speaks and writes business level English
• Speaks and writes conversational Japanese
Leadership: taking the team to the next level
• Focuses on people growth success
• Is able to efficiently follow-up the progress, and blockers, for all on-going tasks
• Has a genuine care for continuous improvement and developer experience
Strategy: defining and implementing a vision
• Has experience building or contributing to technical roadmaps
• Has interviewing experience
Preferred Qualifications
Additionally, we gladly welcome the following skills as bonus points, which hopefully draw the canvas
of the engineering culture we want to create:
Technical skills: contributing to the implementation
• Has good awareness regarding security matters
• Has domain driven development experience
• Has credit card industry implementation experience, specifically PCI-DSS compliant
implementation
Soft skills: interacting smoothly with stakeholders
• Has proficiency in change management
• Is able to navigate meeting dynamics, from letting the attendees speaking up to steering back
the conversation
Leadership: taking the team to the next level
• Crafted successful development processes
• Has experience building and maintaining on-boarding and off-boarding processes to support
the employee lifecycle
• Is versed in observability to measure engineering excellence
• Is an example of good work ethics, including "Diversity & Inclusion"
Strategy: defining and implementing a vision
• Has experience defining hiring strategy & implementation
• Has experience significantly contributing to product strategy, with data-driven decisions
Working Conditions
Employment Status
• Full Time
Office Location
• Tokyo Office
• You can live anywhere in Japan
Work Hours
• Full Flex Time (No Core Time)
• In principle, 9:00am ~ 5:45pm (actual working hours: 7h45m + 1h break)
Holidays
• Every Sat/Sun/National holidays (In Japan)/New Year's break/Company-designated Special
days
Paid leave
• Annual leave (up to 16 days in the first year, granted proportionally according to the month of
employment. Can be used from the date of hire)
Salary
• Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)
• Reviewed once a year
• Special Incentive once a year *Based on company performance and individual contribution
and evaluation
• Overtime allowance, Late overtime allowance, Commuting and transportation expenses, Work
style support allowance
Benefits
• Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and
compensation insurance)
• 401K
Other Information
• PayPay Inside-Out (Corporate Blog)
o JP
o ENG
• Recruiting FACTBOOK for PayPay Card
o JP