Senior Web 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 Web Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for improving and scaling our backend API. Our current tech stack is Nuxt/Vue, NestJS (NodeJS), AWS, MySQL, SQS, DataDog, Rollbar. But we are evolving and very open to ideas!

We code, we write blogs, we learn, we share, we help each other. If you like developing products that matter at a fast pace and in a small team, you love working with us!

About Product and Team

Please visit our introduction page.

Responsibility

• Working closely with our product owner and the team to translate requirements into system design, then to code
• Evolving our platform through solid backend architecture and best practices
• Writing clean, maintainable, performance code
• Evaluating trade-offs when designing a feature to ensure delivery but also keeping technical debt under control
• Being innovative, constructive to bring our product to success (we love ideas)

Requirement

• Have a strong background in computer science
• 5+ years of professional experience in web/backend development
• Good grasp on at least one of backend programming languages (familiarity with Typescript is a bonus). Able to apply OOP, common design patterns into constructing good application structure.
• Knowledge in working/tuning relational databases such as MySQL
• Experience working with cloud service providers (especially AWS)
• Good problem-solving skills
• Good verbal communication skills
• Open to feedback and willing to give feedback

Language Requirement

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

Salary Range

• Min 7,000,000 - Max 11,000,000 Japanese yen / year (Gross)

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