About the Client
Our client is a fast-growing fintech company based in Tokyo. The company offers a real-time monthly consolidated credit service all across Japan, a so-called Buy Now Pay Later solution. Our client started Japan’s first instant post-pay credit service for eCommerce consumers in October 2014.
In 2022 our client appeared among the world’s Top 100 fintech companies according to the research of the FinTech Magazine — digital community for the Financial Technology industry.
The main product is an online payment app that doesn’t require the usage of credit cards and the pre-registration process. Instead, customers get the ability to buy products online with the help of phone numbers and email addresses (Buy Now Pay Later model). They also get a perk of using their funds during the whole month and then return the zero balance without paying accrued interest. The product also supports multi-pay installments and subscriptions.
There are currently over 1,500,000 accounts in use. This service got the largest investment in the Japanese financial tech industry, including PayPal Ventures investment.
Team on the Project
The dedicated team at Mobilunity for the client has been launched in June 2020. The team size in 2021 varies around 5 full-time members, and permanently grows.
We are in the ongoing process of hiring more people here with various technical stacks, so you should definitely find an opportunity that matches your needs:
- Back-end (Scala)
- Mobile (React Native)
- Front-end (React)
- DevOps
- Automation QA (Python, Java).
Working Processes
Our client prefers Kanban as an Agile project management methodology. Tasks and issues are processed on the Kanban board, and they have the same principle as Jira tickets.
Despite this is a Japan-based company, you should not worry about the language or culture barrier since English is the primary language in all communication our tech teams have.
Ukrainian team actively participates in daily meetings. CI/CD practices are implemented on the project, thus enabling dev teams to focus on meeting business requirements, code quality, and security matters.
Technical Stack on the Project
- Back-end: Scala, Cats/Cats-effect, Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch
- Infrastructure: AWS, Cloudformation, ECS, Fargate, Hexagonal architecture
- Web front-end: React, Redux, Webpack (SPA)
- Mobile: React Native
Quotes from Developers
Who We Are Looking For
Our client’s team is highly skilled, but even Senior specialists will have the ability to learn something new because the company is very welcome to grasp new ideas and suggestions as they value everyone’s opinion.
The company is looking for proactive people who are ready to grow and demonstrate expertise by successfully performing tasks. Our client’s expectations from their employees include the ability to take risks and not get scared of making mistakes – this is the best way for better work performance and product improvement.
They also praise the ability to see customer’s needs and understand the general principle of the company.
Open Vacancies
Senior React Native 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 e-commerce customers in October 2014. The main product is an online payment platform 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 4 million accounts in use. This service got the largest investment to date in the Japanese financial tech industry, including PayPal Ventures investment.
AQA Software Engineer
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 e-commerce customers in October 2014. The main product is an online payment platform 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.