Engineering Manager

Tokyo
Partial Remote
Full-time
August 2, 2023

About the job

We are building a new SaaS Management Platform for Japan & the global market. This platform enables users to easily manage the cloud services they use, at any scale.

This is a position in Money Forward i, a start-up subsidiary of Money Forward. In this position, you will help build the team and develop team members to their full potential, you will also own the whole development process from discussing initial feature ideas to hands-on development and delivery!

Our current tech stack is Nuxt/Vue, NestJS, DataDog, Rollbar, GitHub Actions for CICD, AWS (MySQL, SQS, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS…). But we are evolving and very open to ideas!

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!

Responsibility

Build the engineering team and grow its member, including, but not limited to, hiring, doing 1:1s and performance evaluation
Working closely with the product team and the business team to refine feature requirements and translate them into tasks.
Taking ownership of delivery: lead the team in doing estimation, planning resources, implementing to managing schedules.
Facilitate efforts to improve our platform through solid architecture and best practices
Facilitate efforts to improve the development process

Requirement

5+ years of professional experience in web/backend development
Professional experience in a technical management or leadership role. At least one year of experience in leading team of 5+ engineers
Good grasp of at least one of the general-purpose programming languages (familiarity with Typescript is a bonus).
Experience working with relational databases and cloud service providers (especially AWS)
Ability to do hands-on development with the team (needed to realize engineering issues and improvements).
Have a technical and action-oriented mindset.
Good verbal communication skills

Language Requirement

English: Fluent, both verbal and written. (CEFR B2 or equivalent)
Japanese: NOT required

We use both English and Japanese at work (knowing Japanese is a bonus, but not a must). The engineering team communicates in English.

Salary Range

Min 8,000,000 - Max 13,000,000 Japanese yen / year (Gross)

Location, Remote Work

Location: Tokyo or Kyoto, Japan
Remote work: Hybrid/Partial remote with one day of in-office work per week

Working hours

Flexible Working Hours (No core time)

Vacations

Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
Japanese national holidays (16 national holidays in 2023)
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
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Relocation Support for Overseas Candidates

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

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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 💙🌏