Senior Data Engineer

About Paidy Inc.

Paidy is Japan's pioneer and leading BNPL service with the mission to spread trust through society and to give people room to dream.

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.

Please note that you must already hold valid working rights to work in Japan.

About Position

The Data Engineering Department provides the technical service around the company’s business data and information, and its derivatives. This service is a crucial part of Paidy's external surface and internal business intelligence.

The Department provides services including capturing datasets from any business activities, performing curation, maintaining its availability, deriving strategy and implementing solutions covering integrity, resilience and scalability. In addition, by assisting business initiatives on data analytics and reporting.

As per the component stack, the Data Engineering Department and its services will depend on most, if not all activities within Paidy.

Key Role and Responsibilities

The Senior Data Engineer should be able to understand the business, technical requirements and implement solutions accordingly. (S)he should also have hands-on experience in application development, in-depth knowledge in programming languages and data storage technologies. Duties and responsibilities include:

●       Supporting the well-being of deployed data services.

●       Enhancing the operation and monitoring facilities.

●       Implement scalable data pipeline from various Paidy platforms, data warehouse, or 3rd party services.

●       Following business or technical initiatives, implement data solutions accordingly.

●       Being domain expert in data semantic, providing advisory on business intelligence requests.

●       Managing reporting facilities; implementing and promoting self-service reporting tools.

●       Performing evaluation of technology, POC and feasibility analysis.

●       Support and manage a growing team of Data Engineers

Skills and Requirements

●       A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or a related subject

●       5+ years of experience in software development.

●       Strong software development skills in OOP languages.

●       Good knowledge of resource constraints analysis and performing tuning.

●       Good knowledge of data structures.

●       Strong knowledge and experience on various RDMS, NoSQL and big data platforms including Cassandra, kafka, DynamoDB, Postgres, Prefect, Airflow etc…

●       Able to follow SDLC methodologies, deliver proper documentation.

●       Effective communication skills, able to communicate project status and problem effectively.

●       Creative yet detail oriented, good at solving problems and deriving solutions.

●       Willing to work in a dynamic environment and pick up new technologies.

●       Experience leading a team of 3 or more engineers

The Paidy team will ask about your user experiences with Paidy Apps during the interview. Please download the Paidy App and try it out!

●       iOS: https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/paidy/id1220373112

●       Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paidy.paidy&hl=en&gl=US

For those who are not able to download Paidy App, due to the regional restrictions, please be advised that you download the similar App, such as Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm and so forth, and come up with your opinions on these applications and services.

What We Offer You

●       Diversified team with 230+ colleagues from 30+ countries

●       Exciting work opportunities in a rapid-growing organization

●       Cross-functional collaboration

●      Hybrid remote work model - minimum 2 times in office per week (subject to change at company discretion)

●       Competitive salary and benefits

Paidy Values

 Be a winner / 勝ちにこだわる

●       Always seek to beat expectations. / 期待値を超える為に常に努力する。

●       Display surprising speed and resourcefulness. / 人をスピードと機知で驚かす。

●       Overcome weaknesses by leveraging the strength and help of others to win. / 仲間の強みを活かしたり協力を得ることで、自身の弱みや足りない点を克服する。

Own it and deliver, together / 共に結果を出す

●       Fully support the final decision even if at times you may disagree. / たとえ意見が対立することがあったとしても、最終決定を全面的に受け入れ支持する。

●       Acknowledge and gather the power of others, by communicating and collaborating with them. / 仲間の力を認めて活用し、積極的にコミュニケーションをとり、協力する。

●       Show a will to own actions and go the extra mile without being asked. / 行動について強いオーナーシップを持ち、言われずとも業務を遂行しきる覚悟を持つ。

Be a valuable team member / 価値を認められるメンバーになる

●       Strive to play an integral role. / 替えの効かない役割を果たす。

●       Embrace and bridge differences in perspective, language, and culture. / 異なる意見・考え方、言語と文化の架け橋になる。

●       Don’t compromise - raise the bar for yourself and others. / スタンダードを上げ続けることに妥協しない。