About PayPay Securities

PayPay is a FinTech company that has surpassed 63 million users (as of April 2024) in 5 years since its launch in 2018, is rapidly expanding its business scale as a payment platform used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan.
PayPay Securities Corporation provides a unique and familiar asset management service that anyone can easily use in their daily lives as a specialized smartphone brokerage firm that can be used through PayPay.
As a member of the PayPay Group, we are refining our products at an overwhelming speed that no other company can imitate, and we will promote the spread of cashless payments in Japan and the financial life platform that uses them at a dash. We are looking for people who are passionate about these things as professionals, who can identify issues on their own, and who can work together with others to create new value.

Job Description

PayPay Securities, as an important part of PayPay’s financial ecosystem, has launched “Point Management” with over 10 million users and “PayPay Asset Management, the first initiative in Japan that enables asset management on a payment application. Now that the business foundation of the financial ecosystem is finally in place, we intend to expand our business to change the structure of asset management in Japan, with the main target being those who have not yet started asset management or were not interested in it before.

To achieve our goal, PayPay Securities is preparing to bring in technical talents not only from Japan but also globally, just as we have done with PayPay’s product division. As a Frontend Engineer, you will be collaborating with engineers, designers and QAs, and working in an environment where you can be one of the founding members to build up a new organization within PayPay Securities.

Highlights of the opportunity:

Be part of the team to build up a new organization and environment
Develop skills in making business plans from a high perspective, through the high-level coordination with departments and affiliated companies within PayPay Group to support the top management’s decision
Gain experience in a company that aiming to be the pioneer in the market to provide a brand new Mobile Securities services, which never had before during the era of Financial reformation
Able to utilize PayPay's services and user base

Responsibilities:

Development and operation of products using web technologies, including PayPay Securities mini-applications, PC trading sites, and business management tools
Work closely with Product Managers and Product Designers to customize the asset management and investment experience
Lead to provide solutions to issues in order to achieve organization and product's visions and targets
Contribute to the team by sharing knowledge, participating in code reviews, and providing feedbacks to uphold and ensure best practices
Plan and execute the long term improvement plan for quality of the frontend codebase
Triage, debug and resolve product issues
Hire and train Frontend engineers

Qualifications:

5 years or above of in-house web product development experience
Working experience with HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Vue.js, TypeScript
Experience in designing Frontend Architecture
Experience in leading Frontend development projects
Knowledge of modern web development methods and JavaScript related frameworks
Experience with Rest API integration
Ability to work with a strong sense of ownership
Business level in either English or Japanese (Native Japanese speaker or JLPT N1 equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience developing Securities and Finance related applications
Experience developing functionality while implementing unit tests (TDD)
Experience with Agile development
Experience in Front-end performance monitoring and optimization
Experience building Front-end CI/CD infrastructure and deployment pipelines
Experience in in-house service operation

The ideal candidates at PayPay Securities

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Working Conditions

Employment Status

Full Time

Office Location

Tokyo Office
You can live anywhere in Japan

Work Hours

Super Flex Time (No Core Time)
In principle, 9:00am-6:00pm (actual working hours: 8h + 1h break)

Holidays

Every Saturday/Sunday/National holidays (in Japan)

Paid leave

Annual paid leave (1 to 10 days depending on the month of joining will be granted upon employment date)
Summer break (2 days / generally taken between July 1st and September 30th / subject to change depending on month of employment)
Year-end and New Year holidays (12/31-1/3)

Salary

Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)
Based on skills, experience and abilities
Review once a year
Special Incentive once a year *Based on company performance and individual contribution and evaluation
Overtime allowance, Late overtime allowance, Commuting and transportation expenses, Work style support allowance

Benefits

Social Insurances (Health insurance, Employee pension, Employment insurance and Industrial accident compensation insurance)