Tech Lead (Golang, Microservices) - Tokyo

What we do

In line with our mission “Money Forward. Move your life forward,” we provide services that resolve financial issues for all individuals and corporations.

Money Forward ME - is a BtoC personal financial management web/mobile app used by more than 11 million users.

This app is accessible to anyone, easy to use, and free of charge. It automatically aggregates statements of bank accounts/credit cards/securities accounts/FX accounts/pensions/points and compiles a household accounting book.

Money Forward ME helps users take the first step toward eliminating anxiety about money by enabling users to centrally manage their household accounts and financial assets, and acknowledge their cash flow and balances.

Money Forward Cloud Series - is a BtoB Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), which automates and streamlines accounting and human resource operations by integrating data from various back office related platforms and applications. This series has more than 500,000 users, from small businesses to enterprises.

Other services can be found in https://corp.moneyforward.com/en/service/business/

About the job

As a Tech Lead, you will be responsible for building and migrating to microservices, mainly using Golang.

Money Forward Cloud Accounting is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for businesses, which automates and streamlines accounting by integrating data from various back office related platforms and applications.

It was originally developed as a monolithic application with Ruby on Rails and already has a huge number of users.

We’ve been transforming this to microservices architecture, aiming to divide a large development team into smaller ones and deliver such a lot of value to users faster.

This will be a more complicated challenge for you than developing a microservice from zero, but it will give you a great opportunity to grow as an engineer.

We are looking forward to hearing from you if you are interested in working with us to take this big challenge.

Let's go to the future together!

• Work environment of this team is fully in English. Also, the company overall is planning to be a bilingual environment by the end of 2022.

Responsibility

• Develop microservices with Golang.

• Lead team members from a technical perspective.

• Understand business requirements and design high-level architecture.

• Create system requirements that include functional and non-functional requirements.

• Write code.

• Review codes.

• Educate team members, like hands-on coding.

• Collaborate with team members, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, and any other stakeholders.

• Write testing code, and ensure system quality.

• Ship software to the production environment.

• Monitor production environment. If any issues happen, fix and recover the system.

Qualifications

• Computer Science / Engineering Bachelor’s degree or related technical field.

• 7+ years of software development experience. Preferably Go, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++, etc.

• Experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus.

• Experience with MySQL or similar RDBs.

• Deep understanding of microservice architecture.

• Deep understanding of web service development.

• Successful track record of developing quality software products and shipping production-ready software.

• Experience with CI/CD is a plus.

• Hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes.

• Experience with working in an Agile/Scrum team.

• Team player.

• Strong interpersonal skills.

• Solution-oriented and result-driven.

Language Requirement

• English: Fluent, both verbal and written.

• Japanese: NOT Required

Work environment of this team is fully in English. Also, the company overall is planning to be a bilingual environment by the end of 2022.

Salary range

• Min 7,000,000 yen - Max 15,000,000 yen / year (Gross)

• (approx. USD 64k - 136k at 110 JPY/USD)

Location, Remote Work

• Location: Tokyo or Kyoto, Japan

• Remote work is available four days per week.

Relocation Support

• Working Visa

• Flight ticket to Japan

• Signing Bonus

• Temporary fully furnished apartment for the first month

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

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