02.Senior Backend Engineer

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Gurugram, Haryana, IND
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
The Senior Backend Engineer will design large scale systems, leverage infrastructure for high throughput applications, and contribute to open source while ensuring problem-solving as a core principle.
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About PayPay India
PayPay, a fintech company providing a service enjoyed by over 70 million users (as of July 2025) merely 7 years since its launch in 2018 in Japan. The company is now home to a very diverse team of members from more than 50 countries. We grew to a team of several thousand employees in Japan but are far from over. We are still in the Day 1. Every day, new members join us from all over the world to create new value and deliver it to society.
 
 
 
 
Why India ?

To build our Payment services, we got technical cooperation from Paytm (A large payment service company in India). And based on their customer-first technologies , we created and expanded the smartphone payment service in Japan. Therefore, we have decided to establish a development base in India, because it is a major IT country with many talented engineers, as evidenced by the fact that cutting-edge mobile payments can continue to be generated.

OUR VISION IS UNLIMITED
We dare to believe that we do not need a clear vision to create a future beyond our imagination. PayPay will always stay true to our roots and realise a vision (future) that no one else can imagine by constantly taking risks and challenging ourselves. With this mindset, you will be presented with new and exciting opportunities on a daily basis and have the opportunity to grow and reach new dimensions that you could never have imagined.
AI-First Culture at PayPay
At PayPay, we believe the future of software development is AI-augmented engineering. Every engineer is expected to actively leverage AI tools for code reviews, testing, documentation, debugging, and productivity improvements. AI is not optional — it is a mandatory part of our daily engineering workflow. Candidates must demonstrate both hands-on experience and the right mindset to integrate AI effectively into their workflow, while maintaining the engineering rigor, ownership, and problem-solving skills that only humans can provide.
Job Description

PayPay India  is looking for a Senior Backend engineer to work on our payment system to deliver the best payment experience for our customers.

Main Responsibilities
  • Design large scale systems with high complexity to support our high throughput applications.
  • Understand how to leverage infrastructure for solving such large scale problems.
  • Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible.
  • Adopt problem solving as a way of life – always go to root cause! Support the code you write in production.
  • [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]
Tech Stack

We select the best combination of tech at times.
| Java, Kotlin, Scala
| Spring Boot, JUnit, Reselience4j, Feign
| MySQL/AuoraDB, DynamoDB, ELK, Kafka, Redis, TiDB
| Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS, GCP
| GitHub, IntelliJ, Gradle, Maven, npm/yarn, Flyway, Jenkins, snyk,
| Bigquery, Kibana, Spark
| PlantUML, draw.io, miro.com
| Slack, Zoom

Qualifications
  • 6+ years of experience having excellent skills in Java & any other generalized programming language, such as Scala, Python, or Go.
  • Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, along with distributed cache.
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and object oriented programming.
  • In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing.
  • Experience implementing platform components such as RESTful APIs, Pub/Sub Systems, and Database Clients.
  • Experience with microservices.
  • Experience designing high traffic systems.
  • Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 5+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development.
  • Business of English or Japanese 
  • [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]
Preferred Qualifications
    • Experience in working for system development in finance, payment, or similar industries.
    • Language ability in Japanese and English is a plus (We have a professional translator but it is nice to have language skills).
    • Experience with AWS services.
    • Leverage AI/LLM-based tools in daily workflows (e.g., code development, reviews, testing, debugging, documentation), while ensuring human oversight, judgment, and accountability drive the final product.
    • [Extra requirements depending on the potential team it has been identified]
Remarks

*Please note that you cannot apply for PayPay (Japan-based jobs) or other positions in parallel or in duplicate.

PayPay 5 senses
  • Please refer PayPay 5 senses to learn what we value at work.

Skills Required

  • 6+ years of experience in Java and other programming languages
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and OOP
  • In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing
  • Experience implementing RESTful APIs and microservices
  • Degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent experience in SaaS development
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The Company
Minato, Tokyo
1,057 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

PayPay, a FinTech company, that achieved more than 60M users within around 5 years since its launch in 2018 has hugely diversified employees who are from about 50 different countries. The number of employees by now is more than 1,000 staff members, and yet the company is still incomplete and at a growing stage. To build "PayPay", we allied with Paytm, the biggest payment service company in India. Based on their customer-first technologies , we created and expanded the smartphone payment service in Japan. Our biggest competitor is "cash". We are seeking for people who can accept this challenge positively, brush up 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. About our working style, we 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. You will find such a way of working at PayPay! *This WFA policy is applicable only within Japan

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