Engineering Manager

**About the company:** PayPay Card Corporation Chiyoda City, Tokyo PayPay Card was established in 2021 to provide users with more accessible and convenient FinTech services that were previously not possible with credit cards and credit services by integrating with the PayPay payment platform. **Responsibilities:** You will be in charge of a Web Backend engineering team. Your main responsibility is to ensure that the team can operate overcoming communication challenges as well as a constantly changing environment. Your future responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Execution : support the team to ensure timely and high-quality deliveries Assign team members to appropriate projects, depending on the engineer skill sets and project requirements Backup team members to ensure they can progress in their task such as fetching missing information, defusing conflict, handling emergencies, etc Coordinate, and if necessary negotiate or arbitrate, with different stakeholders, potentially in Japanese, to ensure that both product and architecture decisions are sustainable and scalable. Operation : create levers to allow the team to continuously improve from delivery, reliability, and developer experience standpoints Identify and address pain points which hinders development, deliveries and developer experience, from a process, tooling and system perspective Enhance the development process so that it suits the team and sustains a steady development Growth : bring the team to the next level to reach a healthy and motivating environment Enable people growth with practices such as efficient 1:1 Support the end-to-end employee lifecycle: from on-boarding to off-boarding, through performance evaluation Contribute to the technical roadmap of the team, ensuring that technical debt is tackled Requirements To provide a portrait of the candidates we are looking, we would like to establish the following skills as our baseline: Technical skills : contributing to the implementation Has 2 years, or more, of experience of leading web application engineer teams Has past experience as software engineer, backend or frontend Has proven records of significant contributions to scalable architectures and system designs Has solid tasks definition and breakdown skills Soft skills : interacting smoothly with stakeholders Has good stakeholder management, coordination and conflict handling skills Speaks and writes conversational Japanese. It is essential that managers can discuss with non-English speakers. Leadership : taking the team to the next level Focuses on people growth success Is able to efficiently follow-up the progress, and blockers, for all on-going tasks Has a genuine care for continuous improvement and developer experience Has interviewing experience Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Technical skills : contributing to the implementation Has good awareness regarding security matters Has domain driven development experience Has credit card industry implementation experience, specifically PCI-DSS compliant implementation Soft skills : interacting smoothly with stakeholders Is able to drive the team though a quickly changing environment Is able to navigate meeting dynamics, from letting the attendees speaking up to steering back the conversation Leadership : taking the team to the next level Is inclined to target engineering excellency Is versed in observability Is an example of good work ethics, including “Diversity & Inclusion” **Requirements:** Backup team members to ensure they can progress in their task such as fetching missing information, defusing conflict, handling emergencies, etc Coordinate, and if necessary negotiate or arbitrate, with different stakeholders, potentially in Japanese, to ensure that both product and architecture decisions are sustainable and scalable. Operation : create levers to allow the team to continuously improve from delivery, reliability, and developer experience standpoints Identify and address pain points which hinders development, deliveries and developer experience, from a process, tooling and system perspective Enhance the development process so that it suits the team and sustains a steady development Growth : bring the team to the next level to reach a healthy and motivating environment Enable people growth with practices such as efficient 1:1 Support the end-to-end employee lifecycle: from on-boarding to off-boarding, through performance evaluation Contribute to the technical roadmap of the team, ensuring that technical debt is tackled Requirements To provide a portrait of the candidates we are looking, we would like to establish the following skills as our baseline: Technical skills : contributing to the implementation Has 2 years, or more, of experience of leading web application engineer teams Has past experience as software engineer, backend or frontend Has proven records of significant contributions to scalable architectures and system designs Has solid tasks definition and breakdown skills Soft skills : interacting smoothly with stakeholders Has good stakeholder management, coordination and conflict handling skills Speaks and writes conversational Japanese. It is essential that managers can discuss with non-English speakers. Leadership : taking the team to the next level Focuses on people growth success Is able to efficiently follow-up the progress, and blockers, for all on-going tasks Has a genuine care for continuous improvement and developer experience Has interviewing experience **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Technical skills : contributing to the implementation Has good awareness regarding security matters Has domain driven development experience Has credit card industry implementation experience, specifically PCI-DSS compliant implementation Soft skills : interacting smoothly with stakeholders Is able to drive the team though a quickly changing environment Is able to navigate meeting dynamics, from letting the attendees speaking up to steering back the conversation Leadership : taking the team to the next level Is inclined to target engineering excellency Is versed in observability Is an example of good work ethics, including “Diversity & Inclusion”