endorsedOngoing

Buy-Now-Pay-Later Product Development (Paidy)

Services Covered:

Custom Software Development

Industry

Financial Services

Duration

97 months

Budget

200K - 999K

Start Date

1 July 2018

Team Size

6-10 Employees

Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

80/100

Strong

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Client

Paidy

Japan

Project Summary

Paidy, a financial-services company, engaged SoftwareMill to support development of its Buy-Now-Pay-Later product. SoftwareMill provided a team of senior engineers who built highly available integrations to SMS, email, and push providers, automated back-office processes, deployed developer productivity tools, and migrated services to AWS Fargate. The partnership increased service reliability and made development easier for other teams.

Key Challenges

Provide support for in-house development teams building the Buy-Now-Pay-Later product.
Transition from support to becoming an independent team responsible for development and maintenance of several key services.

Project Deliverables

Highly available integrations to SMS, email, and push providers.
Automation of back-office processes.
Deployment of developer productivity tools.
Migration of services from a monolithic environment to AWS Fargate.

Project Solution

SoftwareMill provided a team of senior software engineers who delivered highly available integrations to SMS, email, and push providers, automated several back-office processes, deployed developer productivity tools, and migrated several services from a monolithic environment to AWS Fargate. They worked with the client's existing technologies such as functional Scala, Kafka, and Cassandra and integrated into the client's management style.

Project Outcome

Increased reliability of Paidy services.
Easier development for other teams due to reliable APIs.

Platforms

Cloud

Tech Stack

Scala
Apache Kafka
Apache Cassandra
AWS Fargate

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“In a show of flexibility, SoftwareMill was able to adapt to the management style of their clients. Their contribution to the software development aided the productivity of other teams. They are a highly knowledgeable and communicative group.”
Anonymous
Software Architect, Paidy at Paidy
Date: 04/20/2026