Software Engineering Team Lead

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

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

• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/paidy/id1220373112
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paidy.paidy&hl=en&gl=US

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

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 it 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 valuable 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。