Senior Frontend Engineer

Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
Full-time
March 7, 2024

Job Description

We are looking for a senior web frontend engineer to join PayPay. You will be building features that change how people in Japan use and manage their finances and business. 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.

Responsibilities

Work with Product Managers, Designers, and various tech teams to implement features.
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

TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS
Vue.js, Angular, React, NestJS, Express.js, single-spa
Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS, GH Actions, Terraform, Gatling
GitHub, npm/yarn, Jenkins, Webpack, Jest, i18n, Storybook
Sentry, Kibana, Google Analytics, Firebase, NewRelic
Figma, PlantUML, draw.io
Slack, Zoom, Confluence, Jira

Required Qualifications

At least 5 years of industry experience developing secure web frontend applications in JavaScript and/or other transpile-to-JavaScript languages.
At least 1 year of industry experience with VueJS (preferred), React, or Angular.
Experience with designing frontend architecture.
Experience with leading frontend project development.
Software engineering best practices and computer science knowledge.
Business level of English.

Additional Qualifications

Experience with launching a frontend product.
Experience with frontend performance monitoring and optimization.
Experience with iOS or Android development, either with the native toolkits or with a framework such as React Native.
Experience with designing and implementing server side RESTful APIs.
Experience with building frontend hosting infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

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About PayPay

PayPay, a FinTech company that has achieved more than 65M users (as of August 2024) within around six years since its launch in 2018, is rapidly expanding its business scale as a payment platform used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan.

The company has a diverse team of professionals from more than 50 countries and is building a world-class engineering organization.

PayPay's biggest competitor is "cash". They are seeking people who can accept this challenge positively, brush up on the product at a tremendous speed that other companies could never achieve, and who are passionate about promoting and spreading such a financial life platform in a short time along with professionalism.

Japanese Language Policy
At PayPay, there is a mixture of Japanese and English spoken. Around 80% of their product team’s discussions happen in English, and they have technical interpreters and translators on staff to facilitate any translation necessary. Some members can speak both English and Japanese, but some can only speak either English or Japanese.

PayPay doesn’t have an official shared language, but in practice English tends to be the primary language used for internal communications and technical discussions like code reviews.

Instead of requiring that everyone be able to speak a specific language, PayPay expects an ability to communicate with mutual respect and a drive to ensure that you’re understood. The product team values proactive communication highly.
Visa Sponsorship
PayPay sponsors visas for applicants from overseas.
Paid Leave
- Days Off: Saturdays and Sundays. National holidays. Year-end holidays from December 29th to January 4th.
- Holidays: Annual paid leave, congratulatory or condolence leave, maternity leave and etc.
Benefits
🌎 Translation/interpretation support (EN<>JP)

🧡 Support for translation or other administrative tasks in Japanese

👍 Support from bilingual PIC for engineers

🇯🇵 Free Japanese lessons on company time

🏠 Work from home allowance (100,000JPY/year)

💻 PC and phone are given (based on the company’s regulations)

👩‍🎓 Training Program: We have various training programs for different kinds of needs

💜 Social security/insurance benefits included

💛 Defined contribution pension system (TBC)

🏥 Health insurance

🚃 Transportation coverage (up to ¥150,000/mo)
Engineer Interview Process
PayPay's Hiring process are as below:
- Application Review (English CV is required)
- Coding Test or Take Home Assignment (only applied to required positions)
- 3-4 Interviews (including both technical and behavioral interviews)
- Offer Meeting
Remote Work
PayPay had introduced a new personnel system called WFA (Working From Anywhere*). At PayPay, we work fully remotely in Japan. Therefore, the working place or your living place doesn't matter. Even if you are living in a local area, the salary and benefit package will be at an international level while you enjoy working with world class colleagues.

*This WFA policy is applicable only within Japan.
Work style
- Super Flex Time with no core time
- In principle, from 10:00am-6:45pm (actual working hours: 7h45m + 1h break)