About PayPay Card
PayPay is a FinTech company that in the five years since its launch in 2018, has surpassed 63 million users (as of March 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.
Job Description
We are looking for web frontend engineers to work on the PayPay Card mini-application, and other web frontend, with a laser focus on scalability and maintainability.
PayPay Card aims at revolutionizing the credit card industry, making payment easier than ever, from two different angles:
Bring the credit card experience to the next level: we have many functionalities in the pipe to improve our product, not to mention the integration into the PayPay ecosystem as PayPay Card is part of the PayPay Group.(Re-)architect our systems landscape: we want to reassess our frontend systems relevancy and update the architecture according to our product & technical roadmap. It is bundled with difficult design challenges to solve: we simply want to get it right.
As a fast-paced company leading the payments industry, we need our engineers to be versatile and enthusiastic to take on new challenges in order to stay at the forefront. Indeed, we strive for continuous improvement within our systems as well as outside our systems. Additionally, we value communication, to smoothly cooperate with other teams, and inclusivity, to efficiently navigate in a multicultural environment.
Responsibilities
- Work with Product Managers, Designers, and various tech teams to implement features.
- Improve the frontend architecture based on product and technical roadmap.
- Work to bring product and organization vision to life.
- Contribute to the team by sharing knowledge, participating in code reviews, and providing feedback to uphold and ensure best practices.
- Improve the product’s long term technical quality.
- Triage, debug, and resolve product issues.
Tech Stack
We currently work with
- Frontend web application:
- Main implementation is in Nuxt 3 (Vue.js 3, TypeScript)
- Storybook is used for component visualization and UI testing
- Form validation is handled by Vee-validate
- Google Analytics is used for product reporting
- Web application are deployed on AWS ECS, in a Docker container
- Coding environment: GitHub, Visual Code
- Documentation & Project management: Confluence, Miro, JIRA
- Communication: Slack, Zoom, Office 365
Please note that PayPay Card is challenging its current architecture, potentially introducing new technologies and/or deprecating existing ones.
Required Qualifications
- At least 7 years of industry experience developing secure web frontend applications in JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
- At least 1 year of industry experience with VueJS (preferred) or React.
- Experience with designing frontend architecture.
- Experience with leading frontend project development.
- Software engineering best practices and computer science knowledge.
- Experience with building frontend hosting infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- English business proficiency.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with launching a frontend product.
- Experience with frontend performance monitoring and optimization.
- Experience with designing and implementing server side RESTful APIs.
- Knowledge in web components and/or island architecture.
- Experience in a multicultural environment.
- Stakeholder management is welcomed.
- Japanese conversational proficiency is a plus.
Working Conditions
Employment Status
- Full Time
Office Location
- Tokyo Office
- You can live anywhere in Japan
Work Hours
- Super 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
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