Engineering Manager

Paidy is Japan's pioneer and leading BNPL service company. At Paidy we believe in creating simple, instant experiences to take the hassle out of shopping with a touch of magic.

Paidy offers instant, monthly-consolidated credit to consumers by removing hassles from payment and purchase experiences. Paidy uses proprietary models and machine learning to underwrite transactions in seconds and guarantee payments to merchants. Paidy increases revenue for merchants by reducing the number of incomplete transactions, increasing conversion rates, boosting average order values, and facilitating repeat purchases from consumers.

Paidy has reached an agreement to join PayPal, the global payments company. Paidy will continue to operate its existing business, maintain its brand and support a wide variety of consumer wallets and marketplaces by providing convenient and innovative services.

Paidy continues to innovate to make shopping easier and more fun both online and offline. For more information, please visit http://www.paidy.com.

About The Position

An Engineering Manager at Paidy is responsible to lead, mentor and grow one or multiple Engineering teams. While this is not necessarily a hands-on position, Engineering Managers must have a deep understanding not only of software development, but of all the aspects necessary to design, develop, deploy and scale a system to support millions of users.

Key Role and Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor and develop the careers of a team of engineers
• Work effectively with Paidy Product and Marketing to set the product and technical direction of your organization
• Be a part of Engineering & IT Leadership, taking part in designing and building new Paidy products; making architecture decisions and continuously raising the bar for our engineers
• Constantly challenge the organization to improve service scalability, reliability and cost efficiency
• Be both a technical leader and a thoughtful people manager
• Champion engineering excellence, establish your organization’s OKRs, and drive continuous improvement.

Skills and Requirements

• Track record of successfully leading teams and delivering new products, preferably in high transaction environments and/or financial startups
• Deep technical expertise, ideally with 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer
• Excellent knowledge of developing and scaling cloud native systems
• Excellent English communication, both verbal and written (Japanese is not required)
• Our tech stack: Amazon Web Services, Scala, Rust, Java, Docker, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Kafka

What We Offer You

• Diversified team with 150+ colleagues from 30+ countries
• Exciting work opportunities in a rapid-growing organization
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Flexible work-from-home arrangement
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Visa sponsorship

Send your resume to paidy.eng.manager@scalajobs.com