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Engineering Manager at PayPay Card in 日本 | Swiftcruit
PayPay Card Corporation was established in 2021 to provide users a FinTech service that is more accessible and convenient compared to previous credit cards and credit services, by integrating with the PayPay payment platform, which has surpassed 70 million users since its launch (as of July 2025).
We are looking for people who are passionate about refining our products at an overwhelming speed that other companies cannot match, as well as professionals who are interested in promoting the spread of cashless payments in Japan and the use of these payments as a financial life platform. Let us work together to create new value for users.
※ Please note that you cannot apply or be selected in parallel with PayPay Corporation, PayPay Card Corporation and PayPay Securities Corporation.
Job Description
PayPay Card, member of the PayPay Group, embraced the challenge of internationalizing its engineering divisions. Additionally, we are revisiting our technical architecture and strive to make it right, improving scalability, maintainability and performances. To make it happen, we also go through rethinking our organization and processes as well. For this reason, we are looking for Engineering Managers (EM) with Japanese conversational abilities that not only make the team deliver timely with quality, but also can be a language and cultural bridge between the team and the different stakeholders.
The engineers of your team will mainly be English speakers but your stakeholders include Japanese speakers. Although we are introducing more and more English in our discussions, you will be expected to have frequent communication in Japanese.
This is a rare opportunity to take part in significant organizational changes as well as unprecedented technical challenges. While the company business is quite established, the engineering challenges we are tackling are on par with the hypergrowth style of challenges. You will be able to, and encouraged to, bring your ideas to sharpen our vision, may it be related to technical, organization or human matters.
Main Responsibilities
You will be in charge of a Web Backend engineering team. Your main responsibility is to ensure that the team can operate overcoming communication challenges as well as a constantly changing environment. Your future responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Execution: support the team to ensure timely and high-quality deliveries
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.
Operation: create levers to allow the team to continuously improve from delivery, reliability, and developer experience standpoints
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
Growth: bring the team to the next level to reach a healthy and motivating environment
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
Tech Stack
We currently work with
Applications:
Backend systems:
New systems are implemented in Kotlin + Spring Boot for new systems
Existing systems are a mix of Java + Spring Boot or Java EE
Service to service communications are using gRPC and Kafka
Frontend: Vue.js 3, Nuxt.js, TypeScript
Infrastructure:
AWS-centric, Terraform-managed
Grafana & Prometheus for observability
OpenSearch for logging
Other tools:
Slack / GitHub / JIRA / Confluence / Google Workspace
Required Qualifications
To provide a portrait of the candidates we are looking, we would like to establish the following skills as our baseline:
Technical skills: contributing to the implementation
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
Soft skills: interacting smoothly with stakeholders
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.
Leadership: taking the team to the next level
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
Preferred Qualifications
Additionally, we gladly welcome the following skills as bonus points, which hopefully draw the canvas of the engineering culture we want to create:
Technical skills: contributing to the implementation
Has good awareness regarding security matters
Has domain driven development experience
Has credit card industry implementation experience, specifically PCI-DSS compliant implementation
Soft skills: interacting smoothly with stakeholders
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
Leadership: taking the team to the next level
Is inclined to target engineering excellency
Is versed in observability
Is an example of good work ethics, including "Diversity & Inclusion"
Working Conditions
Employment Status
Full Time
Office Location
Hybrid Workstyle (flexible working style including Remote and office) ※ You will be expected to work both in the office and remotely, in alignment with organizational guidelines and team objectives.
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 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.
Salary
Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)
Reviewed once a year
Overtime allowance, Late overtime allowance, Commuting and transportation expenses
Benefits
Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
