Engineering Manager
PayPay Card
| Company | PayPay Card |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Hybrid |
| Remote | Hybrid |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 2 Sept 2024 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
About PayPay Card
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.j
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