Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PayPay Card Corporation is a FinTech company that provides accessible and convenient financial services through the PayPay payment platform. The Engineering Manager will lead a web backend engineering team, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery, improving development processes and developer experience, supporting employee growth, and coordinating with English- and Japanese-speaking stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Assign team members to appropriate projects, depending on the engineer skill sets and project requirements
- Backup team members to ensure they can progress in their task such as fetching missing information, defusing conflict, handling emergencies, etc
- Coordinate, and if necessary negotiate or arbitrate, with different stakeholders, potentially in Japanese, to ensure that both product and architecture decisions are sustainable and scalable
- Identify and address pain points which hinders development, deliveries and developer experience, from a process, tooling and system perspective
- Enhance the development process so that it suits the team and sustains a steady development
- Enable people growth with practices such as efficient 1:1
- Support the end-to-end employee lifecycle: from on-boarding to off-boarding, through performance evaluation
- Contribute to the technical roadmap of the team, ensuring that technical debt is tackled
Skills
- Has 2 years, or more, of experience of leading web application engineer teams
- Has past experience as software engineer, backend or frontend
- Has proven records of significant contributions to scalable architectures and system designs
- Has solid tasks definition and breakdown skills
- Has good stakeholder management, coordination and conflict handling skills
- Speaks and writes business level English
- Speaks and writes conversational Japanese. It is essential that managers can discuss with non-English speakers
- Focuses on people growth success
- Is able to efficiently follow-up the progress, and blockers, for all on-going tasks
- Has a genuine care for continuous improvement and developer experience
- Has interviewing experience
- Has good awareness regarding security matters
- Has domain driven development experience
- Has credit card industry implementation experience, specifically PCI-DSS compliant implementation
- Is able to drive the team though a quickly changing environment
- Is able to navigate meeting dynamics, from letting the attendees speaking up to steering back the conversation
- Is inclined to target engineering excellency
- Is versed in observability
- Is an example of good work ethics, including "Diversity & Inclusion"
Benefits
- Hybrid Workstyle (flexible working style including Remote and office)
- Full Flex Time (No Core Time)
- Every Sat/Sun/National holidays (In Japan)/New Year's break/Company-designated Special days
- Annual leave (up to 14 days in the first year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment. Can be used from the date of hire)
- Personal leave (5 days each year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment)
- PayPay Group's own special paid leave system, which can be used to attend to illnesses, injuries, hospital visits, etc., of the employee, family members, pets, etc.
- Overtime allowance
- Late overtime allowance
- Commuting and transportation expenses
- Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
- 401K
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