Engineering Manager

About PayPay card

PayPay Card Co., Ltd. was established in 2021 to provide fintech services that are closer to and more convenient for users than traditional credit cards and credit services, by integrating with the "PayPay" payment platform, which has surpassed 75 million users (as of August 2026) since its launch.

We are looking for professionals who are passionate about refining products through AI-driven development and an overwhelming speed that competitors cannot imitate, driving the rapid expansion of cashless payments in Japan and its adoption as a financial life platform, and working together to create new value for users.

Expectations for this position

Freedom to Pay: "Paying" with complete freedom.

PayPay Card will innovate the credit card industry and change the way people pay. Furthermore, by providing a new financial platform through integration with PayPay, we will create unprecedented payment experiences for users.

To achieve this, it is necessary to build and refresh services that balance scalability, reliability, and maintainability. Therefore, we are seeking an Engineering Manager to drive the transformation of our engineering organization and operations.

Would you like to work together to build a cashless service that becomes an overwhelming standard in Japan, involving optimal system design and continuous improvement for the best user experience, diverse functional development conscious of integration into the group economy and the PayPay ecosystem, and system development that realizes large-scale transaction processing?

Fact book for Engineer (Engineering Organization Introduction Material)

Specific Job Description

You will be responsible for designing and driving strategies from various perspectives to strategically improve the technical and organizational capabilities of the engineering organization, which mainly consists of the backend.

Starting from various strategy designs for organizational growth, you will contribute to solving organizational issues and driving growth through hands-on involvement.

Formulating roadmaps for the organization and architecture while collaborating with diverse stakeholders

Designing and driving various strategies for product quality, productivity, and performance optimization

Supporting engineer skill improvement and fostering engineering organization culture

【Execution】 Support the engineering organization so that it can commit to high performance in a timely manner.

Tactical Approach

• Optimal assignment based on engineers' skill sets and project requirements
• Supporting the optimization of engineer performance through various task and information management, and addressing organizational and personnel-related issues

Strategic Approach

• Promoting engineer growth through efficient 1on1s, etc.
• Supporting the engineer lifecycle through performance evaluations, from onboarding to offboarding

【Operation】 Construct schemes for continuous improvement and growth from the perspectives of development, delivery, reliability, and Developer Experience.

Tactical Approach

• Reviewing processes, tools, and systems that hinder development, delivery, and Developer Experience
• Coordinating and negotiating with various stakeholders to ensure sustainable and scalable product development and architecture

Strategic Approach

• Supporting stable development through optimal development process design and review
• Formulating roadmaps that add value to both the product and the technology stack

【Growth】 Create mechanisms for healthy organizational growth that can respond flexibly and quickly to technological evolution and organizational changes.

Tactical Approach

• Supporting the growth of the organization and engineers by proposing and responding to growth opportunities and changes
• Identifying and solving business processes or communication issues that reduce development efficiency
• Supporting the resolution of issues and uncertainties in architecture

Strategic Approach

• Designing engineer recruitment strategies and involving oneself in recruitment activities and processes to support optimal talent acquisition and assignment

▼Tech Stack

Main implementations are done using a combination of Java 11/Spring Boot 2 or Java 17/Spring Boot 3.

Some legacy implementations remain with Java 8 and Java EE frameworks.

For databases, we use RDS (Oracle, MySQL) and DynamoDB.

For object storage, we use S3 and perform event-driven processing via Python/AWS Lambda.

For unit testing, we use JUnit/Mockito, and for integration testing, we use JMeter.

For version control, we use GitHub and GitLab, and CodePipeline is used for CI/CD.

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Project/Document Management Tools: JIRA, Miro, Confluence

Editors: Eclipse, IntellJ, VSCode

Container Environment: Docker + AWS (ECS, EKS, ECR)

Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail

Infrastructure as Code via CloudFormation

Communication Tools: Slack, Zoom

Required Experience/Skills

2+ years of management experience in a system development organization (department or team) at a business company

3+ years of development experience in system development (backend or frontend)

Experience leading scalable architecture (microservices architecture or event-driven architecture) and system design

Experience leading and supporting the strategic growth of engineering talent with leadership

Experience and skills in negotiation and coordination with diverse stakeholders

English skills at business level or higher

Desired Experience/Skills

Experience in the credit card industry, especially experience in implementing PCI-DSS compliance

Experience contributing to product strategy through data-driven decision-making

Experience involved in engineer recruitment

Ideal Candidate Profile for PayPay Card

Those who align with the PayPay 5 senses

Compensation/Conditions

Employment Type

Full-time employee

Work Location

Hybrid Workstyle (Office <either Tokyo or Fukuoka>, remote work from home) *Attendance at the office/remote work will be based on the rules of the assigned organization and business instructions.

Working Hours

Full Flex system (no core time)

Principle: 9:00 AM – 5:45 PM (7 hours 45 minutes actual work + 1 hour break)

Holidays

Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, year-end/New Year holidays, and company-designated days

Leave (Statutory leave and company benefits)

Annual paid leave (14 days in the first year, granted proportionally depending on the month of joining. Available from the date of joining)

Personal Leave (5 days every fiscal year; (5 days granted every fiscal year / 3 or 5 days granted in the first year depending on the month of joining) *This is a unique special paid leave system of the PayPay Group, which can be used for illness/injury/accompanying medical visits for oneself, family, pets, etc.

Salary

Annual salary system

Determined by company regulations based on experience, skills, performance, and contribution

Reviewed once a year

Overtime allowance, late-night work allowance, commuting transportation expenses

Benefits

Social insurance (Health insurance, Employees' Pension, Employment insurance, Industrial Accident Compensation insurance)

Corporate-type Defined Contribution Pension Plan

Property accumulation savings system (General, Housing, Pension)

Other Information

PayPay Inside-Out (Corporate Blog)

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Recruiting FACTBOOK for PayPay Card

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