Backend Engineer (Payments Platform)

Pixiv

Backend

Scala

About this role

This backend engineering role sits within the team responsible for the payment platform supporting Pixiv services including pixiv Premium, BOOTH, and pixivFANBOX. The platform handles money transfers between creators, Pixiv, and fans, and supports the continued growth of payment transaction volumes.

The engineer leads the design, development, and operation of payment functions and APIs. Work includes integrating credit cards, PayPal, carrier billing, and in-app purchases; designing fraud detection and prevention; responding to legal and guideline changes; monitoring errors; and improving service stability. The stated environment includes Scala with Play Framework, TypeScript, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud services such as Pub/Sub and BigQuery, Cloudflare, and related tools.

Applicants must have at least three years of backend engineering experience using a statically typed language in an in-house development environment, and experience across the design, development, and operation of web applications. The position's development environment is Scala, and the posting asks for an interest in working with it.

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