About the position

“Money forward. Move your life Forward.” 

This is the philosophy that drives our business forward.

Money has a major impact on our lives and being able to overcome the obstacles that revolve around money is an important first step. By providing a personal financial management platform for everyone and anyone, we aim to offer services that help people solve their financial challenges so that everyone can lead a fulfilling life. 

Money Forward ME

“Money Forward ME'' is a BtoC personal financial management service that automatically creates household accounting books and enables asset management services. The starting point of “Money Forward ME” is the ‘visualization of money’, and from there, we further evolve our services from ‘Visualization’ to ‘Awareness’ and finally to ‘Action’. “Money Forward ME” aims to free individuals from the restraints of financial anxiety so everyone has the opportunity to enjoy their life to the fullest. 

Aggregation is the key technology driving the “Money Forward ME” service forward. By linking banks, credit cards, securities, and other financial accounts into the platform, we are able to automatically obtain and present this data with user-centric design so anyone can understand their financial situation at ease.

"Money Forward ME" collects this invaluable personalized data and presents the data in a way that better conveys the movement and status of each individual's financial situation. This allows users to recognize points of concern and take further action to make better use of their money. 

Who we are looking for

"Money Forward ME" supports three platforms; iOS, Android and Web Application. As a result, the system and specifications are becoming more complex every year, adding difficulty to the development process. In order to continue to improve and grow our services, we are looking for engineers who can design and implement scalable services with the long-term growth of our product in mind.

We are also planning to release several new services, so someone that enjoys being involved with something new and starting from scratch would definitely be a great addition to the team!

Who we are

Money Forward Group consists of roughly 2,000 members, however our BtoC business unit is currently made up of around 80 members. We are somewhere in between an established company and a fast growing start-up, thus offering an unique work environment with a good balance of stability and high degree of flexibility.

Because of this unique stage we are in right now, we are looking for someone who enjoys some chaos and can lead the team as we go through this transition period both as a product and as an organization!

Key Responsibilities

• People management of multiple engineering teams involved with our B2C services (SaaS service teams, microservice teams, operations teams, etc.)
• Take on the role as a technical product manager and oversee development, delivery, quality and cost management for services to be deployed.
• Help establish a seamless team structure for horizontal cooperation across the Global Engineering Organization.
• Collaborating with the business side product manager by reviewing the annual roadmap proposal, developing an appropriate development plan and implementing it with the team
• Offer the best seamless customer experience with our products by contributing to the decision making process for new product/services as a key player involved in both the upstream and horizontal development process.
• Directing the design direction of the product
• Technical decision making for new products
• Prioritization and cost allocation for reducing technical debts
• Developing products with a technical advantage in the market
• Identify technical issues, diagnose the issue and come up with action plans to resolve such issues.

Required Background

• Experience managing a team of 10 or more engineers
• At least 5 years of experience as an engineer or equivalent experience in web service development

Language Requirements

• Business level English (TOEIC 800 or above)
• Native English and business level Japanese (JLPT N2 or above)*If you do not have qualifications equivalent to or higher than those listed above, you will be required to take a test designated by our company during the selection process.
• * Please consult with us if you have any other qualifications or experience that would indicate your English language skills.

Nice to have

• Experience as CTO/tech lead/engineer manager in a small-medium sized  development organization
• Experience in cloud infrastructure design, development, and operation
• Experience in microservices design, development, and operation
• Experience in speaking at and organizing study groups and conferences
• Business level Japanese

Who you are

• You strongly resonate with Money Forward's Mission and Vision.
• You are interested in expanding business possibilities through technology
• You enjoy contributing to the growth of engineers and the organization.
• You want to contribute to solving current issues that users and society faces
• You want to expand your horizons not only in Japan but also globally.
• You enjoy working with colleagues from various backgrounds and values.
• You not only discover issues but also take the initiative to solve them on their own.
• You are proactive in your own personal growth.

Technology Stack

• Languages : Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Swift
• Frameworks : Ruby on Rails, SpringBoot
• Database : MySQL
• Infrastructure & Middleware : AWS (EKS, S3, RDS, etc.), GCP (BigQuery, Firebase), Cloudflare, Kubernetes, Envoy, Nginx, Redis, Memcached, HAProxy
• IaC : Terraform

Tools Used

• Source code management : GitHub
• CI/CD : CircleCI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Bitrise, Terraform Cloud
• Monitoring : Datadog, Rollbar
• Communication : Slack, Zoom
• Project management : JIRA

Salary Range

Min 9,000,000 - Max 15,000,000 Japanese Yen / Year (Gross)

Location, Work Style Policy (Work from office / Work from home)

• Location: Tokyo, Japan
• 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 (16 national holidays in 2021)
• 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