PayPay Corporation. Data Engineer (Full-Remote in Japan*)

PayPay is looking for Data Engineer to work on our payment system to deliver the best payment experience for our customers.

• Work directly with Data Analysts and Platform Engineering Team to create reusable experimental and production data pipelines


• Understand, tune, and master the processing engines (like Spark, Hive, Cascading, etc) used day-to-day


• Keep the data whole, safe, and flowing with expertise on high volume data ingest and streaming platforms (like Spark Streaming, Kafka, etc)


• Sheppard and shape the data by developing efficient structures and schema for the data in storage and transit


• Explore as many new technology options for data processing, storage, and share them with the team


• Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible

Tech Stack We select the best combination of tech at times.
| Scala, Java, Python
| PlayFramework
| Aurora, DynamoDB, TiDB, Spark, Presto, Hive, Hudi, Airflow, Kafka
| Docker, Kubernetes,AWS, GCP
| GitHub,IntelliJ
| Presto, Athena, Bigquery, Looker,Spark, Hive
| Draw.io
| Slack, Zoom, F2F

Qualifications

• Experience with building data pipelines ingesting and transforming large number of events per minute and terabytes of data per day.


• Experience with Spark and Kafka and have experimented or heard about Flink/Druid/Ignite/Presto/Athena and understand when to use one over the other. (Preferably, experience of working with cloud based big data processing platform such as AWS EMR, Google Cloud DataProc)


• Passionate about producing clean, maintainable and testable code part of real-time data pipeline.


• Good understanding of microservices work.


• Ability to connect different services and processes together even if you have not worked with them before and follow the flow of data through various pipelines to debug data issues.


• Good understanding of issue with ingesting data from applications in multiple data centers across geographies, on-premise and cloud and will find a way to solve them.


• Proficient in Java/Scala/Python/Spark

Preferred Qualifications

• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages, preferably Scala.


• Experience with implementing platform components such as RESTful APIs, Pub/Sub Systems, Database Clients.


• Experience with AWS services.


• Contribution to open source projects.


• Knowledge about the Japanese payment industry

Hiring Process

1. Application Review (1-2 weeks)




• HR and Team will review your resume




2. Code challenge (online)




• Coding Test will be sent via Hirevue system


• It takes 3-4 hours (max) to complete


• If you need to extend the due date, please contact HR




3. Interviews (online)




• 2-3 rounds of online interview(s)


• Live Coding could be requested


• Please make sure the reason you applied to PayPay (Why Fintech? Why Startup? Why PayPay?)




4. Job Offer

*Relocation to Japan

• Due to the current COVID-19 situation, we cannot sponsor working VISA to Japan. However as a temporary solution, you may be able to start working with us as an individual contractor. Please discuss with your recruiter about this opportunity.


• Once the COVID-19's over, we will ask all employees in overseas to relocate to Japan. We will fully support your relocation.

Other Information

[Corporate Blog] https://about.paypay.ne.jp/corporate-blog

[Product Blog] https://blog.paypay.ne.jp

[LinkedIn] https://www.linkedin.com/company/paypay-corp/