Engineering Manager

PayPay Card, member of the PayPay Group, embraced the challenge of internationalizing its engineering divisions. Additionally, we are revisiting our technical architecture and strive to make it right, improving scalability, maintainability and performances. To make it happen, we also go through rethinking our organization and work processes as well. For this reason, we are looking for Engineering Managers (EM) that not only make teams deliver timely with quality, but also can contribute to such organization change. As architecture and organization are the two faces of the same coin, EM and Tech Leads will work closely to align organization roadmap and the architecture roadmap.

In your day-to-day basis, you will obviously interact with engineers but also a wide range of stakeholders:

Product Managers, Designers and QA for project execution

PMO for project management

TA for hiring and HRBP for employee lifecycle

Other managers for long term strategy.

The engineers of your team will all be English speakers but there will be Japanese speakers among your stakeholders. Having English as our working language is our objective and we are currently transitioning.

This is a rare opportunity to take part in significant organizational changes as well as unprecedented technical challenges. While the company business is quite established, the engineering challenges we are tackling are on par with the hypergrowth style of challenges. You will be able to, and encouraged to, bring your ideas to sharpen our vision, may it be related to technical, organization or human matters.

Main Responsibilities

You will be in charge of an application engineering team, most of our teams are backend teams. In short, your main responsibility is to ensure that the team can operate and grow. This will require you to switch between tactical leadership, almost being hands-on, and strategic planning. The environment changes quickly so you will face the challenge to identify the appropriate area of focus, according to the circumstances. To name some responsibilities you will cover, with a different degrees of focus depending on the situation:

Execution: support the team to ensure timely and high-quality deliveries

Tactical

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

Strategic

Encourage 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

Operation: create levers to allow the team to continuously improve from delivery, reliability, and developer experience standpoints

Tactical

Identify and address pain points which hinders development, deliveries and developer experience, from a process, tooling and system perspective.

Coordinate, and if necessary negotiate or arbitrate, with different stakeholders to ensure that both product and architecture decisions are sustainable and scalable.

Strategic

Architect and implement a development process that suits the team and sustains a steady development

Contribute to product and technical roadmap to bring added value to both the product and the technical stacks owned by the team

Growth: prepare the team(s), and surrounding stakeholders, to organizational and technical changes to open the path for a healthy growth

Tactical

Identify growth opportunity and changes that impacts the team structure, raise them and contribute to address them if applicable

Identify missing or bloated communications flows which often calls for a workflow reconsideration. Similarly, support your team when raised architecture concerns which calls for a system redesign consideration

Strategic

Contribute to the hiring strategy as well as the different hiring implementation steps

Provide sufficient flexibility in the team structure and processes to get the team ready for the upcoming changes

Tech Stack

We currently work with the following.

Applications:

Backend systems: Kotlin + Spring Boot for new systems, Java + Spring Boot or Java EE for existing systems

Frontend: Vue.js 3, Nuxt.js, TypeScript

Infrastructure:

AWS: to deploy services, databases, etc.

GCP: for BigQuery

Other tools:

Slack / GitHub / JIRA / Confluence / Google Workspace