02.Senior Backend Engineer
Gurgaon · Staff/Principal
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Job description
About PayPay India
Why India ?
To build our Payment services, we got technical cooperation from Paytm (A large payment service company in India). And based on their customer-first technologies , we created and expanded the smartphone payment service in Japan. Therefore, we have decided to establish a development base in India, because it is a major IT country with many talented engineers, as evidenced by the fact that cutting-edge mobile payments can continue to be generated.
OUR VISION IS UNLIMITED
AI-First Culture at PayPay
Job Description
PayPay India is looking for a Senior Backend engineer to work on our payment system to deliver the best payment experience for our customers.
Main Responsibilities
- Design large scale systems with high complexity to support our high throughput applications.
- Understand how to leverage infrastructure for solving such large scale problems.
- Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible.
- Adopt problem solving as a way of life – always go to root cause! Support the code you write in production.
- [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]
Tech Stack
We select the best combination of tech at times.
| Java, Kotlin, Scala
| Spring Boot, JUnit, Reselience4j, Feign
| MySQL/AuoraDB, DynamoDB, ELK, Kafka, Redis, TiDB
| Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS, GCP
| GitHub, IntelliJ, Gradle, Maven, npm/yarn, Flyway, Jenkins, snyk,
| Bigquery, Kibana, Spark
| PlantUML, draw.io, miro.com
| Slack, Zoom
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience having excellent skills in Java & any other generalized programming language, such as Scala, Python, or Go.
- Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, along with distributed cache.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and object oriented programming.
- In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing.
- Experience implementing platform components such as RESTful APIs, Pub/Sub Systems, and Database Clients.
- Experience with microservices.
- Experience designing high traffic systems.
- Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 5+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development.
- Business of English or Japanese
- [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]
Preferred Qualifications
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- Experience in working for system development in finance, payment, or similar industries.
- Language ability in Japanese and English is a plus (We have a professional translator but it is nice to have language skills).
- Experience with AWS services.
- Leverage AI/LLM-based tools in daily workflows (e.g., code development, reviews, testing, debugging, documentation), while ensuring human oversight, judgment, and accountability drive the final product.
- [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]
Remarks
＊Please note that you cannot apply for PayPay (Japan-based jobs) or other positions in parallel or in duplicate.
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