About the position

As a senior fullstack engineer, you will be responsible for leading the development of an accountants assistant system called “Money Forward Cloud Partner (hereinafter referred to as Cloud Partner)'', which is used by the certified business partners of Money Forward. Cloud Partner enables our business partners to efficiently manage their client information and provide various professional services. 

Cloud Partner has been developed and maintained by another team in Tokyo, but this time we are going to establish a new engineering team in the Nagoya branch to accelerate the development. You are expected to become the driving force of the development and also establish a great product team together.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve accountants assistant system
• Active participation in code reviews and pair-programming to improve the code quality
• Monitor the production environment and recover the system if some troubles happen 
• Participate in the discussions of product specifications
• Contribute to the improvement of development process, communication, team building, etc

Technology Stack

• Backend: Ruby on Rails, GraphQL
• Frontend: React,js, Next.js, TypeScript
• Middlewares: MySQL, Kafka, Debezium
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• CI/CD: Circle CI, GitHub Action, Argo CD
• Monitoring: Datadog, Rollbar
• Task management: JIRA
• Communication: Slack, Zoom

Requirements

Must have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of web application development experience
• Full stack web application development skill
• Experience of backend development with full stack web framework and RDBMS
• Proficiency of test driven development
• Experience of container based development
• Experience of designing and deploying cloud infrastructure
• Professional working proficiency in English (IELTS 7+, TOEFL iBT 100+, TOEIC 870+)
• Motivation to learn Japanese
• Be able to relocate to Japan and commute to the office in Nagoya at least once in a week

Nice to have

• Experience of Ruby on Rails
• Experience of microservice development
• Experience of system architecture design
• Experience of frontend development with Next.js and GraphQL
• Experience of working in scrum team practicing DevOps

Salary

• 7-9 million JPY annually

Location

• Location: Nagoya, 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 holidays: 10 days (first year) *Number of paid holidays increases (+1 day) each year up to 20 days per year.
• Summer vacation days: 3 days
• Winter vacation days: 2 days

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Full transportation coverage
• The latest computer (Unlimited 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..