Money Forward i?

Money Forward i, Inc. (MFi) is a subsidiary of the Money Forward group and was created in February 2021 to develop a new and intuitive SaaS management platform for the global market called "Admina".

We focused on creating a service that was more in tune with the needs of global users by starting with an international product team and committing to a simple and intuitive design. We have continued to grow the operations to incorporate talent from around the world to ensure that we develop the most diverse and versatile service to meet the needs of SaaS users worldwide.

We pride ourselves on being an internationally diverse team that can work in harmony to overcome globalization challenges.

*Hired as an employee of Money Forward and assigned to Money Forward I.

Overview

As a backend engineer of the data aggregation platform team, you will be responsible for the development of our scalable and resilient backend system which is centralizing data from 250 SaaS applications. 

Our current tech stack for backend development is TypeScript (NestJS), MySQL, DynamoDB, SQS, ElasticSearch, Lambda, Datadog and Terraform.

We are a small but diverse team with members coming from multiple nationalities. We build, we write blogs, we learn, we share. If you like developing products that matter at a fast pace and in a small team, you will love working with us!

Responsibilities and Duties

• Evolving our platform through solid backend architecture and best practices
• Create reusable, effective, and scalable TypeScript code
• Operation of an application on a production environment (monitoring, investigation)

Requirements

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering etc
• Deep knowledge in computer science or related field
• 3 years of professional experience in backend development
• Experience with Node.js/TypeScript and Node.js frameworks like NestJS (or other generalized programming languages such as Java, C#, Golang...etc )
• Experiences in designing tables/working with relational databases such as MySQL
• Familiarity with Docker
• Good problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills

Nice to have

• Develop production-quality applications in a Node.js framework such as NestJS
• Experiences in building web crawler frameworks (Puppeteer, Selenium...etc)
• Experiences with NoSQL database DynamoDB and ElasticSearch
• Experiences in running and operating applications on cloud infrastructure (especially AWS and Terraform)
• Experiences in designing/implementing/operating microservice/serverless architecture
• Experiences with asynchronous programming and architecture

Location, Hybrid Work

• As a standard practice, a minimum of 2 days work from office attendance is mandatory, designated as team office days.
• Additionally, employees are encouraged to spend 3 or more days in the office. The specific "team office days" may vary depending on the assigned team.
• This policy may be subject to change based on the company's needs and work circumstances.

Working hours

• Flexible Working Hours (No core time)

Vacations

• Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
• Japanese national holidays
• Paid holiday: 10 days (first year) *Number of paid holidays increases (+1 day) every year up to 20 days a year.
• Summer vacation days: 3 days
• Winter vacations days: 2 days

Benefit

• Health insurance
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Full transportation coverage
• The latest computer (No limit upgrade or purchase when needed for development is available upon approval.)
• Seminar participation support
• Book purchases
• Copyright of OSS belongs to individuals

Relocation Support for Overseas Candidates

• Working Visa
• Flight ticket to Japan
• Relocation Bonus
• Temporary fully furnished apartment for the first month

Selection Process

Casual interview/Document Screening
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Coding Assignment
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First interview
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Second interview
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Final interview *Reference checks may be required before or after the interview.
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Job offer and Meeting

*The selection process may change

■Reference checks
Money Forward may ask you for the reference checks using an online service, called "back check".
Mutual understanding is limited in the selection process only. Therefore, we would like to refer to the information about you from your supervisor and colleagues working together at the current or previous company so that we can make a more reliable match and to lead to your early success after joining our company.
*No pass/fail decision will be made on the basis of the reference checks only.
*The fact that you are applying for us will not be disclosed to your references.