Senior Backend Engineer

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.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for the development of our backend aggregation platform which is centralizing data from 150+ SaaS applications. Our current tech stack for backend development is Typescript (Nest.js), MySQL, DynamoDB, SQS, ElasticSearch, Lambda, Datadog, Terraform.

If you like developing products that matter, at a fast pace and in a small team, you will love working with us!

Responsibility

• Evolving our platform through solid backend architecture and best practices
• Create reusable, effective, and scalable TypeScript code
• Operation of an application on a production environment (monitoring, investigation)
• Review other engineers' code and mentor new engineers

Requirement

• Deep knowledge in computer science or related field
• 5+ years of professional experience in backend development
• Experience with Node.js/TypeScript and Node.js frameworks like NestJS (or other generalized programming languages such as Java, C#, Golang... etc.)
• Experiences in designing tables/working with relational databases such as MySQL
• Experiences with NoSQL database (DynamoDB) and ElasticSearch
• Experiences in running and operating applications on cloud infrastructure (especially AWS)
• Experience with Infrastructure as code (especially Terraform)
• Familiarity with Docker
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.

Nice-to-have

• Develop production-quality applications in a Node.js framework such as NestJS
• Experiences in building web crawler frameworks (Puppeteer, Selenium...etc)
• Experiences in designing/implementing/operating event-driven microservice/serverless architecture

Language Requirement

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

Location, Remote Work

• Location: Tokyo or Kyoto, Japan
• Remote work is available 4 days 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 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

Relocation Support for Overseas Candidates

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