■Resume and work history written in Japanese are required (There is a possibility that your application will not be processed if you only have English documents).
■We are a recruitment agency conducting this recruitment on behalf of the companies seeking employees.
■ Japanese N1 required.
■Required:
・Team management experience
・3+ years of development experience in system development (backend or frontend) at a business company
・Experience leading scalable architecture (microservice architecture or event-driven architecture) and system design
・Experience leading and supporting the growth of strategic engineer talent with leadership
・Experience and skills in negotiation and coordination with diverse stakeholders

Employment type
Full-time employee

Job description
We are looking for a colleague who will work with us to create new value for users by polishing our products with overwhelming speed that cannot be imitated by other companies, working with passion as a professional to rapidly promote the spread of cashless payments in Japan and the financial life platform using them.

■ Expectations for this position
Freedom to Pay "Pay freely".
We will bring innovation to the credit card industry and change the way payments are made. In addition, by providing a new financial platform through integration with PayPay, we will create an unprecedented payment experience for users.

To achieve this, we need to build and innovate services that are scalable, reliable, and maintainable, so we are now looking for an engineering team leader to lead the engineering team.

Would you like to work with us to create a cashless service that will become the overwhelming standard in Japan, such as optimal system design and continuous improvement to provide the best user experience, diverse function development with an awareness of integration into the group economic zone and PayPay ecosystem, and system development that realizes large-scale transaction processing?

■Specific duties
You will be responsible for strategically improving the technical and organizational capabilities of the engineering organization, which is mainly composed of back-end, and for managing the construction of systems for the development of services.

▼Specific duties
・Multifaceted review of engineer output
・Strategic design and promotion for optimizing product quality, productivity, and performance
・System management in assigned area (project progress, definition of the ideal system)
・Working with various stakeholders to formulate roadmaps for organization and architecture
・Supporting engineers to improve their skills and fostering a culture in the engineering organization
・Supporting the growth of team members (1on1 meetings, etc.)

▼Expected team composition
Team members: 5-10 people (line management)
Project size: 10-30 people (project management)

▼Attractiveness of this position
・Able to work with discretion on the system you are responsible for
・Able to question the common sense of the system you are responsible for and move toward the ideal system with discretion.
・Balancing technology and management
・You can gain experience in team management while utilizing your own skills and knowledge.
・Supporting team growth
・You can watch over the growth of members and support their careers. The growth of members leads to the growth of the organization and the company, and you can feel that you are contributing to the organization.

・Acquisition of portable skills
・In addition to engineering knowledge, you can acquire skills such as management, negotiation, leadership, and organizational management, which will lead to your own career growth.

▼Tech Stack
・The main implementation is a combination of Java 11/Spring Boot 2 or Java 17/Spring Boot 3.
・Java 8 and Java EE framework remain in some legacy implementations.
・RDS (Oracle, MySQL) and DynamoDB are used for databases.
・S3 is used for object storage, and event-driven processing is performed by Python/AWS Lambda.
・JUnit/Mockito is used for unit tests and JMeter for integration tests.
・GitHub and GitLab are used for version control, and CodePipeline is used for CI/CD.

・Project and document management tools: JIRA, Miro, Confluence
・Editors: Eclipse, IntellJ, VSCode
・Container environment: Docker + AWS (ECS, EKS, ECR)
・Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail
・Infrastructure coding with CloudFormation
・Communication tools: Slack, Zoom

Salary
Expected salary range: 8 to 12 million yen


666,666 to 1,000,000 yen (12 installments)


Yes


Yes


Annual salary system
Determined according to company regulations based on experience, skills, performance, and contribution
Reviewed once a year
Special lump-sum payment (incentive) based on company performance and individual contribution (once a year)
Overtime work allowance, night work allowance, commuting expenses, work style support allowance

Salary is only a guideline and may go up or down through the selection process.
Monthly salary (monthly amount) includes fixed allowances.

Working hours: Full flex system (no core time)

In principle: 9:00am to 5:45pm (7 hours 45 minutes actual work + 1 hour break)

Trial period: Yes (3 months) / Conditions during trial period: Same

Holidays: Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, New Year's holidays, and company-designated days

Annual paid leave (16 days in the first year, granted in proportion to the month of joining. Can be used from the day of joining)

Insurance: Social insurance (health insurance, employee pension insurance, employment insurance, workers' compensation insurance)

Employee benefits: Corporate defined contribution pension system

Wealth formation savings system (general, housing, pension fund)

Nationwide residence / Full remote work possible

Eligibility to apply
■Required experience/skills
・Team management experience
・3+ years of development experience in system development (backend or frontend) at a business company
・Experience leading scalable architecture (microservice architecture or event-driven architecture) and system design
・Experience leading and supporting the growth of strategic engineer talent with leadership
・Experience and skills in negotiation and coordination with diverse stakeholders

■Desirable experience/skills
・Experience in the credit card industry, especially PCI-DSS compliant implementation experience
・Experience contributing to product strategy through data-driven decision-making
・Business level or higher English skills
・Experience involved in engineer recruitment

■Personality required by PayPay Card
・Those who fit PayPay 5 senses

Highest level of education Graduate school graduate University graduate
Expected work location details Tokyo office (or Fukuoka office)
Can live anywhere in Japan / Full remote work possible
Passive smoking countermeasures Countermeasures in place
Smoking prohibited indoors (smoking rooms available)
Regarding remote work Full remote work possible

Selection process
・Document screening ⇒ First interview ⇒ Final interview ⇒ Personnel interview
・Reference check available

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