About the position

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building brand-new reporting features for our accounting cloud service, mainly using Go.

“Money Forward Cloud ERP” is a cloud-based composable ERP (modular ERP) that has our own SaaS applications for corporate back-office operations from Accounting, Finances, and Human Resources fields as its module applications. And the “Money Forward Cloud Accounting Plus” is an accounting module from the composable ERP modules.

Our team is developing new reporting features for the accounting module, which our users desire. The new reporting features allow users to check their company’s financial status easily and quickly. We have to handle large amounts of data to calculate figures for reporting, it is crucial to consider efficiency in processing to provide better UX.

Responsibility

• Develop reporting functionalities on our cloud accounting product for over mid-sized companies with Go.
• Develop customizable reporting functionalities.
• Write scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code.
• Lead team members from a technical perspective.
• Participate in discussions on product specifications or customer feedback with members from other functions.
• Create system requirements that include functional and non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with team members, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Designer, and any other stakeholders.
• Ship software to the production environment.
• Monitor the production environment, and if any issues happen, fix and recover the system.
• Share your knowledge with team members and other engineers
• Contribute to improvements in the development process, communication, team building, etc

Qualifications

• Computer Science / Engineering Bachelor’s degree or related technical field
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience in leading product development with Go
• Experience with RDBM
• Experience with system design
• Experience with working in an Agile/Scrum team
• Team player
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Solution-oriented and result-driven
• Be able to relocate to Japan and commute to the office in Tokyo one day per week.

Nice-to-have

These aren’t required, but be sure to mention them in your application if you have them.

• Experience with accounting domain service development and operations (e.g. accounting, reporting) 
• Experience with AWS or other public cloud services
• Experience with infrastructure building
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with React.js or other frontend technologies
• Successful track record of developing quality software products and shipping production-ready software
• Interest in learning Japanese

Language Requirement

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

Salary Range

• Min 7,000,000 - Max 10,000,000 Japanese yen / year (Gross)

Location, Remote Work

• Location: Tokyo, 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
• Copyright of OSS belongs to individuals

Relocation Support for Overseas Candidates

• Communication Support
  • Japanese language study support
    • Online beginner courses
    • 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
    • 1st month: free
    • 2nd and 3rd month - corporate discount available upon request
  • Relocation bonus for initial life setup
  • Settling-in support after arrival in Japan
    • City office and bank account opening tour
    • Information sharing about mobile plans, credit card applications, etc.

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.

Interview Process

Document Screening
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Technical Assignment
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First interview 
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Second interview
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Final interview *Reference checks may be required before or after the interview.
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Job offer and Meeting

*The selection process may change

■Reference checks
Money Forward may ask you for the reference checks using an online service, called "back check".
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 previous company so that we can make a more reliable match and to lead to your early success after joining our company.
* No pass/fail decision will be made on the basis of the reference checks only.
* The fact that you are applying for us will not be disclosed to your references.