Senior Front-End Engineer - React & React Native

About Paidy Inc.

Paidy is Japan's pioneer and leading BNPL service company. At Paidy we believe in creating simple, instant experiences to take the hassle out of shopping with a touch of magic.

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. 

About Position 

Paidy is a payment platform that lets online merchants accept payments in real-time from customers without credit cards. Paidy is looking for engineers to join the platform team. We build and support an innovative payment platform that processes cardless payments, opening up convenient online commerce for people without credit cards. Every day, week & month, our challenge is to scale and support the growing merchant and consumer base, evolve along their needs, while maintaining and protecting simplicity along all dimensions.

About the team 

We’re growing fast and we know that what worked a year ago won’t necessarily work a year from now. This applies to our technology and the organization of our teams. This offers tremendous opportunities for those willing to take ownership and responsibilities. We believe in honesty & empathy, introspection & collaboration, laughter & relationships, play to your strengths and patch your weaknesses, ask questions at all times, stay open-minded.

Key Role and Responsibilities

The Paidy product & platform revolves around data. Looking at our future, we need to look at every piece of our business architecture and infrastructure with a detailed and critical eye. You will help us be thoughtful and deliberate about tackling the right bottlenecks, as well as develop new features and support, extend or simplify the existing ones. You’ll have the opportunity to gain a deep understanding of creating simple user experiences for complex products. 

• You will work with colleagues and teams building and improving a variety of services and features for internal and external users: 
• MyPaidy, which is Paidy’s single page application for consumers. What started out as a simple payments dashboard, is growing into a full application where consumers can review and manage the increasing number of payment solutions Paidy offers. 
• Front-end experiences for merchants that make it as easy as possible for them to receive and manage their Paidy payments online. All of our merchants participate in doing business online, and payments are an essential part of their process. Reducing friction here is what it’s about. 
• Paidy Admin, Paidy’s internal tool used across teams to investigate and manage merchants & consumers, payments & charges, partners and settlements. We aim to increase our efficiency through investment in internal tools, and each of those tools has its own unique set of front-end engineering challenges. 
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as experts product, design, infrastructure, and operations 
• Instrument the systems with monitoring and alerting to ensure accuracy, availability and responsiveness.

Skills and Requirements

• You have a degree in CS, Engineering or equivalent through experience 
• You enjoy building pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms with ReactNative 
• You have experience using React.js
• You are able to leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both iOS & Android platforms. 
• You are familiar with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle {{Android Studio, IntelliJ}} 
• You enjoy building UIs with modern tools like ES6, React, Redux, Flow, and Webpack
• You have team-based software development experience, and enjoy working with different stakeholders 
• You care deeply about performance, accessibility, and API design 
• You enjoy being a generalist working on anything it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally 
• You actively seek better consumer experiences and make design proposals through wireframes, sketches and mockups 
• You can connect different services and processes together even if you have not worked with them before 
• You have a high bar for producing clean, maintainable and testable code 
• You are comfortable working in a big codebase with multiple stakeholders 
• You love learning and are not afraid to jump in 

Nice to have 

• You are familiar with creating B2C user experiences 
• Experience with financial or payment product

Please include in your application

• A short introduction describing who you are and what you’re looking for. What projects have you enjoyed working on? Which have you disliked? What motivates you? 
• Links to online profiles you use (GitHub, Dribbble, etc).
• A description of your work history (whether as a resume, LinkedIn profile, or prose)
• Paidy team will ask about your user experiences with Paidy Apps during the interview. Please download 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.

• Please note that you must be eligible to work in Japan.

What We Offer You

• Diversified team with 220+ colleagues from 30+ countries
• Exciting work opportunities in a rapid-growing organization
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Flexible work-from-home arrangement
• Competitive salary and benefits