Engineering Manager, Business Platform Development Division, Tokyo

Tokyo
Partial Remote
Full-time
January 14, 2026

Overview

At Money Forward Inc., we are dedicated to transforming financial services using advanced technology. With over 50 services for individuals and businesses, including popular products like Money Forward ME and Money Forward Cloud, we help make managing money easier.

Within the Money Forward Business Segment (MFBS), our Business Platform Development (BPD) division builds the common foundations that unify these services and ensures their stable use across the company. We are responsible for shared microservices and backend systems that power workflows and platform functionality across Money Forward Cloud.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who can balance people leadership, delivery ownership, and technical direction. In this role, you will guide Agile execution, align stakeholders, and support engineers through coaching, feedback, and clear prioritization.

Responsibilities and Duties

Build and develop a high-performing engineering team by improving delivery quality and productivity through clear goals and strong collaboration.
Own people management, including coaching, career development, performance evaluation, and hiring, within a global engineering organization.
Take accountability for delivery and execution across projects in collaboration with Product Managers and Tech Leads.
Guide Agile execution at the team level, ensuring planning and prioritization support predictable delivery.
Act as a key communication bridge between engineering, product, and business teams.
Support technical direction and quality by working closely with Tech Leads on design discussions and reviews.
Monitor team health and delivery metrics using tools such as Jira to drive continuous improvement.

Required Skills and Experience

5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with sufficient technical depth to guide design discussions.
Proven experience managing engineers (typically 5+), including coaching, performance evaluation, and hiring.
Experience leading or managing development teams in an Agile environment.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders (PdMs, designers, business teams).
Experience working with globally distributed or multinational engineering teams, including communication in English.
Solid understanding of backend systems, software architecture, and modern web services.

Preferred Skills and Experience

Experience as a Tech Lead or EM in an organization of 10+ engineers.
Experience designing, developing, or operating cloud-based systems and microservices.
Familiarity with modern platform architectures, including distributed systems or event-driven designs.
Experience improving services over a long lifecycle (modernization, refactoring, stability).
Experience with AI-assisted development or productivity tools (e.g., AI coding assistants).

Language Requirements

English: Business level proficiency (TOEIC 700+ equivalent).
Japanese: Not required, but nice to have.

Technology Stack & Tools

Languages: Go, Java
Databases: MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, etc.), Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Kafka
CI/CD & Monitoring: Argo CD, Circle CI, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Rollbar, Sentry
AI Tools: Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI productivity tools

Work Environment

Provided PC Specs: Latest CPU-equipped PC (MacOS or Windows). Custom-made PCs tailored to business requirements are possible.
Development Support: Peripherals (displays, mice, keyboards) can be purchased as office supplies.
Money Forward Library: System to borrow or purchase technical/management books at company expense.
Referral & Conferences: Referral reward system and partial support for domestic/international conferences (e.g., Google I/O).

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About Money Forward

Money Forward, founded in 2012, strives to deliver exceptional value to users in various business domains. As a leading FinTech company, we offer over 40 services, ranging from personal finance management to B2B SaaS products.

We have been growing rapidly, and we are expanding our global hiring to help further expand the company. That means that we are open to hiring those with limited or no Japanese language proficiency.

Money Forward is one of Japan's hottest FinTech companies and it is now a great opportunity to be a part of one of our continued growths!

Paid Leave
- Saturday and Sunday
- Japanese national holidays
- Paid holiday: 10 days (first year) *The number of paid holidays increases by 1 day every year up to 20 days a year.
- Summer vacation days: 3 days
- Winter vacations days: 2 days
Benefits
🚃 Commuter allowance

💟 Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage

🩺 Annual medical check-up

💻 Supply of necessary equipment (PC, Monitor, Keyboard, etc.)

📕 Support for purchasing necessary books and learning materials

💜 Internal study sessions to enhance technical knowledge and skills

💛 Support for attending conferences or seminars
Remote Work
Money Forward requires 1 in-office day per week (so up to 4 days per week of remote work).
Work style
In terms of work hours, Money Forward offers a full flex time schedule. There may be core time in certain circumstances (e.g., new grad positions), but for mid-level or above, there is no core time for engineering or product teams. In that case, your work hours will be completely flexible.
Our Culture

In 2016, we created our MVVC (Mission, Vision, Values, Culture) to unite our members under a common language, and to express the values we wished to emphasize in the way we approach our work.

Imposing specific ideas of how we “should be” often leaves a gap between what people are asked to do and how they feel. We want each member of Money Forward to interpret our Values and Culture for themselves, adapting their own approach to embodying our MVVC on their own terms.

In this way, our Culture takes shape through gathering everyone’s ideas about “how we want to be”.

As all members feel personally involved in creating our Culture, the MVVC have received much love over the past seven years.

Even if our Culture needs to be updated over time, one thing we will never change is the idea of “let’s make it together”, where each of our members has a hand in co-creating who we are as a company.

Mission

Money Forward. Move your life forward.

Vision

Becoming the financial platform for all

Values

User Focus, Tech & Design, Fairness

Culture

Speed, Professional, Teamwork, Respect, Evolution, Fun

🌏 Globalization

Objective
- Hire talented and diverse engineers globally
- Expand into a global tech company and deliver more enhanced value to users
Target
- Establish English as the common language across all engineering teams in the company
- Target Completion: By the end of 2024
Achievements so far
- 100+ Non-Japanese members from 20+ countries are currently working in the company
- No Japanese language proficiency required for candidates in many departments
- Launched an in-house English training program for Japanese employees 💙🌏
Interview: How Money Forward built an English-first team in Japan
- Money Forward’s English Transformation: A Blueprint for Engineering Teams in Japan in 2025
- エンジニア採用の未来：マネーフォワードが挑んだ「エンジニア組織完全英語化」の真相
Article by CEO Yosuke Tsuji
- Money Forward AI Vision 2025
Message from the CTO

For insights into the strengths of Money Forward's organization and support for the globalization of the organization, please see here:

What the CTO of Money Forward Thinks (March 2022) | Engineers' Blog (Japanese)

Please check out the website to understand the values of the Kansai development base!
- Money Forward Kansai Development Base
- Article written by the Head of Osaka Development Base: Aiming for a Good Team (Japanese)