Overview

Money Forward aims to move people’s lives forward by offering various SaaS applications for Back-office operations and eliminating non-essential work from complex daily tasks, and radically changing the quality of and time spent on work.

The Technical Revitalization Division is a specialized team within the CTO Office, empowered by the CTO to support product development teams in addressing technical challenges and enhancing existing architectures.

Currently, we are deploying engineers to support the revitalization of an HR domain product, Money Forward Cloud Payroll . Additionally, we are seeking two more engineers for full-time assignments to assist in transitioning another product, Money Forward Cloud HRIS (Human Resource Information System) , to Kotlin.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for leading projects primarily using Kotlin. Our products are currently in its growth phase, so we are actively seeking someone who can design an architecture and development strategy to accommodate future user expansion at scale.

 

Responsibilities and Duties

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend systems with Kotlin or Java, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Engage in collaborative efforts with cross-functional teams to conceptualize, architect, and implement new features that enhance our SaaS offerings.
• Understand existing features and define the best short, medium and long term strategy to migrate or re-architect systems to support our SaaS platform’s growth and scalability for.
• Identify and address issues which affect our products and lead the efforts to implement solutions across teams by making key technical decisions which define our future engineering direction.
• Proactively identify and address cross-product performance bottlenecks, ensuring the efficiency and responsiveness of our services.
• Design and implement robust and maintainable APIs that support both internal and external integrations.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to understand requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Proactively engage in knowledge sharing across teams and the organization, promoting a culture of learning and development.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for systems, APIs, and processes.
• Collaborate with support teams to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues promptly.

 

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of overall hands-on experience in software engineering, developing and operating web applications, specially using technologies like Kotlin or Java.
• Experience with design, development, and operation of service-oriented or microservices architecture, demonstrating an understanding of scalable and modular architecture.
• Experience in architecture design and technology selection, showcasing the ability to make informed decisions for optimal solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to independently analyze, design, and refactor using various design patterns and identify and address anti-patterns.
• Proficiency in tuning middleware components, including database optimization and performance improvement strategies.
• Flexibility and adaptability to work with diverse technology stacks, with motivation to learn technologies like Ruby on Rails, Frontend frameworks and others in order to optimize our new systems.
• Proven track record of actively participating in team-based quality improvement efforts through code reviews and test code implementation.
• Hands-on experience with test design, creation, and operation using documentation or testing tools like JUnit, Kotest, RSpec, Jest, or similar.
• Experience in mentoring other engineers, demonstrating the ability to guide and support fellow team members in their professional growth.
• Experience in managing incident response, including efficient discovery, thorough investigation of root causes, prompt resolution, and implementation of permanent solutions.

 

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React or Vue.js.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with event driven architectures and similar patterns to optimize performance across our systems.
• Previous experience working with Scrum and Agile development methodologies, contributing to efficient and collaborative project delivery.
• Previous exposure to a SaaS environment will be considered an advantage.

 

Language Requirements

• English: Fluent in both written and spoken
• Japanese: Not required (Interest in learning is a plus)

 

Technology Stack

Backend: Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, gRPC, Sidekiq Pro, RSpec
Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Jest
Infrastructure: Amazon EKS, Aurora, ElastiCache, S3
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
Repositories: GitHub
Project management: JIRA
Monitoring: Datadog, Rollbar
CI/CD: CircleCI, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions
Communication Tools: Zoom, Slack, Figma, Miro

 

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."

 

Relocation Support for Overseas Candidates

• Communication Support
  • Terakoya (Japanese study buddy program)
  • In-house Translation & Interpretation team
  • Active English-speaking employee community within the company
• Culture and Language exchange events
• Relocation Support
  • Working and dependent visa sponsorship and application assistance
  • Flight tickets (for employee and their dependent family)
  • Airport pick-up
  • Temporary fully furnished apartment
  • Relocation bonus for initial life setup
  • Settling-in support after arrival in Japan

For further information about our relocation support and other benefits, please visit our careers page.

We are committed to making your transition to Japan and our company as seamless as possible, and we look forward to welcoming you to our team.

 

Salary System

<Salary Range>
Min 534,000 JPY / month（6,408,000 JPY / year）〜834,000 JPY / month（10,008,000 JPY / year）
※Each including fixed allowances of 154,098 JPY〜240,687 JPY / month.

 

Bonus 

A「High Performance Bonus」may be paid to employees who receive high evaluations based on semi-annual evaluations in addition to their salary.
※Please note that the remuneration of the High Performance Bonus is subject to change according to the company's performance.

 

Probation Period

3 months from join date

 

Time System    

Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work
※ Applicable under certain conditions
※ Change to flextime system is possible

 

Working Hours

9:30 - 18:30 (60 min break) are the basic working hours., however, employees are able choose their working hours at their own discretion.
※There is potential for overtime work outside the determined hours

 

Work Style Policy    

Hybrid work style

• As a standard practice, employees are required to work at the office a minimum of 2 days per week. Employees are encouraged to spend 3 or more days in the office. (This policy may be subject to change based on the company and job circumstances)
• The specific "team office days" may vary depending on the assigned team

 

Holidays/Vacations

• Saturday・Sunday・Japanese national holidays
• Paid holidays
• Summer holidays（3days）
• Winter holidays（2days）
• Year-end and New Year’s holidays（Dec 31st～Jan 3rd）

 

Benefits

• Various social insurances (Employee pension, Health insurance, Employment insurance, Industrial accident compensation insurance)
• Neighborhood housing allowance and neighborhood moving allowance
• Health check and gynecological checkup
• Influenza vaccine
• Book purchases support
• Defined-contribution corporate pension
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Preferential treatment when using the following services（※Limited to businesses under contract with Money Forward）
  • Rental agency
  • Housekeeping services
  • Babysitting
  • Online English conversation school

 

Relocation Support for Overseas Candidates

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

 

Selection Process

Casual interview/Document Screening
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First interview（Depending on the positions, there would be a technical assignment before interviews）
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Several interviews（The number of interviews are depending on the positions）
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Final interview (Before or after interviews, we may ask you to take reference checks）
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Job offer・Offer meeting

※The contents may be subject to change depending on the case.

 

Reference checks

Money Forward may ask for your cooperation on reference checks using a service called “back check”.
We think the mutual understanding is limited in the selection process only. Therefore, we would like to refer to the information about you from your supervisor and colleagues working together at the current or former company so that we can make a more reliable match and to lead to your early success after joining our company.
※We do not make employment decisions based solely on the contents of reference checks.
※The fact that you are under selection process by us will not be disclosed to referees.