Senior Data Engineer (SE)

Tokyo
Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
Full-time
June 8, 2021

Moneytree is looking to bring people, businesses and institutions closer together, find balance and discover new opportunities to grow their personal wealth. Our financial data platform, Moneytree LINK, enables individuals and businesses to share their confidential financial information with trusted third parties, such as financial institutions and fintech service providers. Our technology is used by major banks, accounting software companies and fintech companies in Japan, including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Mizuho Financial Group, TKC and Yayoi, and other 60 enterprise clients. Our apps are also used and trusted by millions of individuals.

LINK Data team plays the vital role in achieving this mission, by connecting our data platform to over 2600 data sources across Japan. As a Data Engineer, you will work on designing and developing ETL software to power our data aggregation system: the technology at the heart of our fintech platform.

If you like hard problems, consider yourself rational, love to impact large numbers of people, are passionate about quality and hate seeing imperfections, we trust you.

We give you freedom and responsibility to do good work while we provide the best tools and empower you to use them well. We are flexible, supportive and meritocratic. We are an international and diverse team. We offer a healthy work-life balance, work together to help you grow professionally, and reward your talent and positive attitude.

Join us if you:

Look for novel solutions to build resilient, fault-tolerant systems.

Enjoy the challenge of pulling out signal from noise and turning it into actionable data.

Want to build a platform relied on by millions of users for financial insights, while protecting their privacy.

Are thinking beyond short-term needs and think about challenges the team will face in 6 months to 1 year.

Are a fan of constant improvement and automation, and you hate doing the same operation twice.

Like to challenge the status quo and generate ideas for improving the team.

You will spend time on the following:

Lead the development of our ETL pipelines and tooling around it.

Identify opportunities and lead initiatives to make our ETL process more resilient and fault-tolerant.

Mentor junior engineers and pair with them on a regular basis.

Develop a culture of continuous improvement in the team.

Build tooling to accelerate resolution of or prevent recurrence of common failure cases in the data extraction stage.

As needed, assist the team with inbound support work and improve our systems as part of that work.

What we’re looking for:

You have expert-level skills in TypeScript and JavaScript.

You can write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with both OOP and functional programming.

You have experience in all aspects of software engineering: from requirement gathering and validation, to architecture and system design, to writing code and final delivery.

A background in data processing techniques and proven experience in building and maintaining ETL pipelines for a wide range of data sources.

You have worked on web scraping, parsing and data extraction of both dynamic SPA and static HTML web pages.

You can answer open-ended questions and solve complex problems that do not have a defined approach.

You always advocate for technical excellence, but you are open to change when needed.

You will communicate in English on a daily basis. Proficiency in Japanese is welcomed, but not strictly required.

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About Moneytree

Moneytree is a fin-tech start-up founded by three foreign entrepreneurs in Tokyo.

Their Moneytree Link product provides a "utility layer for connecting financial services" that serves banks and other fin-tech companies, but they also have a popular consumer app that helps people manage their finances.

They're an international company with an English-first work environment and a high technical skill level for engineers. Truly a really great place to work!

Salary
Moneytree's salary structure is designed to offer a base salary along with stock options. Stock options are still a relative rarity in Japan, so Moneytree is one of a reasonably small list of Japanese companies offering them.
Japanese Language Policy
Moneytree does not require Japanese language skills for their engineering positions, though it is an advantage.

As a customer-centric company building products for Japanese customers, Japanese fluency is required for product managers and product designers to do user research, product discovery, etc.
Visa Sponsorship
- With the current pandemic, we are only accepting applicants with valid working visas in Japan.
- We offer support for visa renewal to new hires with valid working visas in Japan.
Paid Leave
Moneytree offers 20 paid holidays in addition to 10 sick/care leave days.

The Standard paid leave in Japan is 10 for an employee's first year, so this is what you'll get at the majority of companies. The fact that Moneytree doubles this to 20 really makes them stand out from other companies in Tokyo.

And then there's their sick day policy. Since these aren't legally mandated in Japan, most companies don't have them at all. Moneytree really goes above and beyond here with 10.
Benefits
💻 New tech gear

👩‍🎓 Skill development support

🏠 Remote work allowance

📕 Book purchases

🍹 Free drinks

👶 Parental Leave

🧡 Interpretation support (EN<>JP)

💟 Complete health and social insurance

🚃 Commuter allowance

✈️ Ability to work from overseas for short periods

💰Communication Allowance
Engineer Interview Process
This may depend somewhat on the position but in general, the steps are as follows:
- CV screening (+ survey to fill out for some positions)
- Casual screening meeting (onsite or remote)
- Pair programming
- Topgrading
- Provisional offer + reference check
Remote Work
Moneytree supports remote work, allowing its employees to work from home or the office. Depending on the position, they can live anywhere in Japan.
Work style
Moneytree’s working hours are 10:00-19:00, and their core working hours are 10:00-16:00
Diversity
Moneytree has a diverse environment, with 60% of the employees coming from over 20 different countries.