Engineering Manager, Document Platform Department, PPD, Tokyo

Overview

At Money Forward, 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. We use cutting-edge “account aggregation” technology to gather user data, turning it into useful insights for our customers.

Within the Money Forward Business Segment (MFBS), Money Forward Cloud is a component-based cloud ERP composed of multiple service groups. While these groups provide flexibility for users to choose combinations based on their needs, developing them in isolation can lead to data silos, inconsistent user experiences, and reduced development efficiency. To solve this, our Platform Product Division (PPD) builds the common foundations that unify these services and ensures their stable use across the company.

Our division is responsible for developing and managing shared microservices and backend systems that power workflows and platform functionality across Money Forward Cloud. We work to standardize services, improve collaboration across products, and enhance performance and scalability. By organizing complex system logic, addressing technical debt, and documenting our knowledge, we aim to create a reliable, maintainable, and future-ready platform that delivers consistent value for both developers and end-users.

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

You will be accountable for delivery, team health, and technical quality—partnering with Tech Leads and senior engineers on design and implementation, and contributing hands-on when it meaningfully supports the team. You will sit at the center of execution, ensuring clarity, focus, and sustainable progress while shaping the developer experience and reliability of Money Forward’s common platform services.

Main Responsibilities

• Build and develop a high-performing engineering team by improving both delivery quality and productivity through clear goals, healthy processes, and strong collaboration.
• Own people management for the team, including coaching, career development, performance evaluation, and hiring, within a global and diverse engineering organization.
• Take accountability for delivery and execution across projects in collaboration with Product Managers, Tech Leads, and business stakeholders.
• Guide Agile execution at the team level, ensuring planning, prioritization, and progress tracking support predictable and sustainable delivery.
• Act as a key communication bridge between engineering, product, and business teams to align priorities, manage expectations, and maintain transparency.
• Drive engineering excellence by partnering with Tech Leads and senior engineers to shape technical direction, review designs, improve engineering practices, and support implementation where it provides value.
• Monitor team health, delivery metrics, and risks using tools such as Jira, and drive continuous improvement in both processes and outcomes.
• Contribute to mid- to long-term planning by aligning team goals with broader platform and organizational strategy.

What Success Looks Like

• The engineering team consistently delivers value at a sustainable pace, with improved predictability, quality, and ownership.
• Engineers grow in skill, confidence, and autonomy through clear expectations, regular feedback, and a healthy team environment.
• Team structure, processes, and priorities are continuously refined to maximize overall output, regardless of specific development methodology.
• Collaboration between engineering, product, and business stakeholders is smooth, transparent, and built on trust.
• Platform and backend initiatives progress steadily, with technical risks managed proactively in partnership with Tech Leads and senior engineers.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with sufficient technical depth to guide design discussions and evaluate engineering quality.
• Proven experience managing engineers (typically 3+), including coaching, performance evaluation, and hiring.
• Experience leading or managing development teams in an Agile environment, with accountability for delivery outcomes and team health.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders such as Product Managers, designers, and business teams to drive projects forward.
• Experience working with globally distributed or multinational engineering teams, including communication and coordination in English.
• Solid understanding of backend systems, software architecture, and modern web or platform-based services (hands-on coding experience required in past roles).
• Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to prioritize, make decisions, and drive progress in fast-moving environments.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager in an organization of 10+ engineers, including scaling teams and processes over time.
• Experience designing, developing, or operating cloud-based systems and microservices in a production environment.
• Familiarity with modern platform or backend architectures, including distributed systems or event-driven designs.
• Experience improving services and teams over a long lifecycle, including modernization, refactoring, or operational stability improvements.
• Experience conducting and receiving code reviews, with the ability to guide engineering quality without micromanagement.
• Experience in people evaluation, talent development, and addressing organizational or team-level challenges.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development or productivity tools (e.g., AI coding assistants, internal AI tools), and interest in leveraging AI to improve engineering efficiency.
• Experience working in a multi-national, cross-timezone team environment.
• Experience speaking at, organizing, or contributing to internal or external tech talks, study sessions, or engineering communities.

Language Requirements

• Business level English proficiency (TOEIC score of 700 or above equivalent).
• Japanese proficiency is not required but nice to have.

Who We're Looking For

• A shared belief in Money Forward’s Mission/Vision/Values/Culture.
• Passionate about leveraging technology to improve lives and drive impact in financial services.
• Strong sense of responsibility and autonomy – drives progress rather than waiting for direction.
• Thrives in a collaborative, diverse, and globally distributed environment.

Technology Stack

• Languages: Go, Java, Ruby
• Databases: MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
• Infrastructure/Middleware: Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS (EKS, ECR, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS, etc…), GCP, Docker, Kafka, NginX, Consul

Tools Used

• Communication: Slack, Notion, Zoom
• Monitoring: Datadog, Rollbar, Sentry
• Repository Management: GitHub
• CI/CD: Argo CD, Circle CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• Ticket Management: Jira
• Security: Dependabot, Sonarqube
• AI-Assisted Development Tools: Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding / productivity tools

Work Environment

At Money Forward, we provide an environment where we can create world-class services together, and we are looking forward to welcoming you.

• Provided PC Specs: We provide PCs equipped with the latest CPUs (MacOS or Windows). Custom-made PCs tailored to business requirements and replacements with the latest OS are also possible.
• Systems to Enhance the Development Environment: Peripheral devices necessary for work (such as displays, mice, keyboards) can be purchased as office supplies. Generally, you can choose from standard products (catalog), and if conditions are met, you can apply for non-standard products as well.
• Money Forward Library: We have a library system where you can freely borrow books, ranging from technical books to management books. Desired books can be purchased at the company's expense.
• Referral Driven: We cover the cost of recruitment meals. There is a referral reward system.
• Conference Participation Support: The company partially covers participation in domestic and international conferences, such as RubyKaigi and Google I/O.