Frontend Engineer (Money Forward Kessai)

Fukuoka
Partial Remote
Full-time
December 17, 2024

Money Forward Kessai

Money Forward Kessai was established in March 2017 with the mission of "making B2B transactions safe and seamless" and the vision of "becoming the payment infrastructure for B2B transactions." The company offers services such as the post-payment and billing agency service "Money Forward Kakebarai," the accounts receivable early financing service "Money Forward Early Payment," the funding service for startups "Money Forward Transaction Finance for Startups," and the invoice card payment service for businesses "Money Forward Invoice Card Payment." These services have collectively handled over 280 billion yen in transactions, growing into a significant business.

Additionally, within Money Forward, as a Fintech service, we have been promoting cashless transactions through various payment methods such as cards and wallet payments, and have provided the cashless platform "Money Forward Pay for Business" to streamline back-office operations. As part of this platform, we offer the business card "Money Forward Business Card" for sole proprietors and corporations.

The Money Forward Group has been offering a wide range of financial services aimed at solving payment and cash flow challenges for businesses. To provide better value in the area where SaaS and Fintech intersect, we plan to consolidate Money Forward's Fintech-related businesses, centered around "Money Forward Pay for Business," into Money Forward Kessai starting in March 2025. By consolidating the highly synergistic financial businesses of the Money Forward Group into Money Forward Kessai, we aim to enhance efficient business operations and governance, while also promoting a dynamic and flexible business strategy, including obtaining necessary licenses and approvals.

※This position will be money forward employed and seconded to Money Forward Kessai

Recruitment Background

The Fukuoka development base of Money Forward was established in December 2017. Since then, many engineers, designers, and interns have joined us, and the base has been steadily growing. At the end of November 2020, we moved to a new location to further expand our development base, and we are actively recruiting engineers and designers. At the Fukuoka development base, with the concept of "Move Forward", we value growth opportunities for our members and aim to be a place where they can boldly take on various challenges.

Money Forward provides services that solve financial issues through technology. At the Fukuoka base, we are developing "Money Forward Pay for Business", a platform that promotes cashless transactions in the business domain by offering business cards and other services. This platform was launched as a new business from the Fukuoka base in September 2021.

In product development, the front-end domain covers a wide range of areas close to the user, such as appearance, performance, and accessibility, and there are many challenges in the products currently under development. Additionally, technical debt and the legacy nature of the development environment have become issues. We are working daily to solve these challenges with the aim of enhancing value for users. Furthermore, the development of new products is gradually progressing, and we are becoming a team capable of development in a modern environment. We are looking for engineers who can focus on enhancing user value in the front-end domain at our Fukuoka base.

Main Responsibilities

You will be responsible for the development of "Money Forward Pay for Business."

Required Skills and Experience

Experience in developing and operating web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Experience in development using component-oriented frameworks such as React or Vue
Experience in development using TypeScript

Language Requirements

Japanese: Conversational level
English: Basic business level (equivalent to TOEIC score of 700 or above)

Preferred Skills and Experience

Experience in development using GraphQL
Experience in testing with Jest
Experience in UI/UX design
Knowledge of accessibility
Knowledge of web performance
Experience in setting up front-end development environments using tools like webpack
Practical experience in agile development such as Scrum
Experience contributing to OSS

We are looking for someone who:

Strongly resonates with and supports Money Forward's vision
Wants to invigorate the tech community in Fukuoka
Is responsible and committed to tackling challenges, and wants to contribute to the growth of the organization and services, not just themselves

Technology Stack

Web Server-side: Rails, Golang, Node.js, GraphQL
Web Front-end: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Redux, Apollo Client, webpack, Jest
iOS: Swift, SwiftUI, CoreData, Apollo, ReactorKit, Composable Architecture, Bitrise
Android: Java/Kotlin, Android Jetpack (Camera, DataBinding, Navigation etc.), LiveData/ViewModel, Dagger/Hilt, OkHttp3, Retrofit2, Apollo Android
Database: MySQL (Aurora)
Infrastructure & Middleware: AWS (ALB, EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, SQS, ElastiCache, EKS...), SendGrid, Kinsta, GCP (BigQuery, Firebase, GKE), Nginx, Squid, Memcached, Kafka, Logstash, Filebeat, Maxwell, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Envoy, Puma, HAProxy, Docker, Redis, Terraform
Tools Used
Biz Platform: Marketo, Salesforce, HubSpot
Repository Management: GitHub
CI/CD: CircleCI, Bitrise, ArgoCD, CodeBuild, GitHub Actions
Development Environment: Vagrant, Docker, Terraform Enterprise
Monitoring: DataDog, Rollbar, Bugsnag, Sentry, New Relic
Communication: Slack
Ticket Management: Jira, Asana, Trello, Backlog
Security & Automation: OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, Sider (Brakeman), Snyk, VAddy, Dockle, Trivy
Environment

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

Provided PC Specs: Latest CPU-equipped PC (MacOS or Windows) provided. Custom PC orders and replacements with the latest OS are possible according to business requirements.
System for Improving Development Environment: Necessary peripherals (display, mouse, keyboard, etc.) can be purchased as equipment. Generally, you can choose from standard products (catalog), and if conditions are met, non-standard products can also be requested.
Money Forward Library: A library system with free lending of books ranging from technical books to management books. Desired books can be purchased at company expense.
Referral Driven: Company covers recruitment meal expenses. Referral reward system.
Conference Participation Support: The company partially covers participation in domestic and international conferences such as RubyKaigi and 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 💙🌏