Lead SCALA Developer

Our client is a fast-growing fintech company based in Tokyo. The company offers its real-time monthly consolidated credit service all across Japan. Our client started Japan’s first instant post-pay credit service for ecommerce consumers in October 2014.

The main product is an online payment app which requires no pre-registration or credit card to use, via this service the customers can purchase products online using only a mobile phone number and email address and settle a single monthly bill for all their purchases, either at a convenience store, by bank transfer or auto debit. Customers can use credit funds during a month and then return the balance to zero without paying credit interests.

This service also supports multi-pay installments and subscriptions. There are currently over 1,500,000 accounts in use (August 2018).

7+ years of total development experience

2+ years of experience with Scala

2+ years of experience as a Team Leader of a team of 4-5+ developers

Highly proficiency or fluency in written and spoken English

Previous experience of communication with management and stakeholders

Background working with major cloud based platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure

Familiar with continuous delivery and integration systems

Experience with Docker and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes

Able to deploy and manage infrastructure with configuration systems such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or Chef

Experience designing, deploying and troubleshooting distributed systems

Solid understanding of computer network theory and protocols (TCP, UDP, IP, DNS, OSI Model and Load Balancers)