Engineering Manager for Product Platform

About PayPay

PayPay is a fintech company that has grown to over 58M users since its launch in 2018. Our team is hugely diverse with members from over 50 different countries. To build "PayPay", we allied with Paytm; the biggest payment service company in India. Based on their customer-first technology, we created and expanded the smartphone payment service in Japan. Our biggest competitor is "cash". We seek people who can accept this challenge positively, brush up the product at a tremendous speed, and promote PayPay with professionalism and passion.

 

Job Description

PayPay is looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager to join the team. This person will play a key role in the infrastructure organization helping to grow and lead an Engineering team supporting the major technology platforms that power PayPay. At the core of our architecture in PayPay lies Kubernetes and Kafka, providing a high performance, secure and scalable base for every feature in the app. To keep up with the challenges of our growing product and future expansion we are expanding our Kubernetes team and are looking for an Engineering Manager with experience and passion to help lead the next stage. This is a technical management role that offers you an excellent opportunity to build a modern architecture that powers payments for over 57 million people in Japan. Our number of users and transactions are increasing day by day since our first product release. The infrastructure must be capable to scale-out to match this growth whilst maintaining security, reliability and performance for our developer teams. The Paypay system is highly mission-critical, handling payment solutions - our top priority for the system is to be able to provide a stable service. Are you ready to grow your career with us? 

 

Main responsibilities

• Ensure the system has enough capacity in light of short-term and long-term growth through the activities such as capacity planning and load testing.
• Ensure a robustness of microservice system using a various technologies for stability, and achieve goals of SLA/SLO and other metrics.
• Analyze and learn from incidents and failures, and reflect them to system stability and scalability.
• Manage a team of engineers responsible for the timely and quality delivery of a given product or project.
• Lead the team in its daily tasks, prioritize them, and make decisions based on changing business priorities.
• Structure and facilitate the team’s workflow and development process.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders across the company to understand their requirements and translate them into the team's technical requirements.
• Fosters the team’s evolution and it’s member’s growth, including, but not limited to, 1:1s and performance evaluation
• Plan for future resources requirements and collaborate with the hiring efforts

 

Qualifications

• Professional experience in a technical management or leadership role. 
• Have a technical mindset and understand complex systems design.
• Have an extreme bias towards action. Basically, have the “Get Things Done” type of attitude.
• Be solutions oriented.
• Be able to maintain high-performance within a high-energy and fast-paced work environment. 
• Have excellent oral, written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills. Bilingual in English and Japanese is nice to have, but not required. Proficiency in either language is fine.

Preferred Qualifications

• Business level Japanese
• Kubernetes or AWS certification
• Experience working on a large-scale web service infrastructure.

Portrait

• Unparalleled speed: Discover for yourself the important things that need to be done and implement ways to reach the best results at the fastest speed possible for the organization.
• Commitment: As a professional, commit to the growth and business goals of the organization and create impactful results by your ownership.
• Logical thinking: Think logically and structurally to bring real communication.

• Curiosity and questioning mind: Keep your curiosity about new things and your challenges along with a continuous questioning mind and enjoy such circumstances in a future-oriented manner.

• Problem solving: Take a proper approach towards both explicit and potential business/organization challenges to lead solutions involving others.

• True opinion and communication skill: Communicate your opinions to others in a flat manner to ensure mutual understandin