Senior Data Science Engineer / Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Applied Insights)
Japanese fintech company operating the PayPay mobile payments service.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
About PayPay Corporation
PayPay Corporation develops and provides electronic payment services, including the PayPay mobile payment platform. It was founded on June 15, 2018, is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and currently operates an active financial-services platform integrating payments with card, banking, securities, and insurance offerings.
Skills
About the Role
Own the end-to-end design, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of production machine learning models for prediction, recommendation, and anti-fraud use cases. Lead architectural decisions, analyze and visualize user and merchant data, deliver insights that inform product strategy, and collaborate on robust production systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Physics, or equivalent.
- Verbal and written English communication skills; Japanese is beneficial for cross-functional collaboration.
- More than five years of experience as a data scientist, machine learning engineer, or equivalent.
- Experience with Python and SQL.
- Preferred: Master's or PhD, seven-plus years of experience, big data technologies, recommendation systems, deep learning, NLP, optimization, anti-fraud systems, AWS services, Databricks, Snowflake, A/B testing, hypothesis testing, microservices, and Japanese communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end design, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of machine learning models from problem framing through production.
- Lead architectural decisions for data science systems.
- Process, analyze, and visualize user and merchant data to provide insights that influence product strategy.
- Collaborate with data engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to build robust production systems.
Benefits
- Social insurance, including health, employee pension, employment, and compensation insurance.
- 401K.
- Language learning support.
- Translation and interpretation support.
- Visa sponsorship.
- Relocation support.
- Super flexible working hours with no core time.
- Annual leave of up to 14 days in the first year.
- Five personal leave days each year.
