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Engineering Manager, Account Aggregation Division

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥6.4M ~ ¥10.0M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 5+ years experience required
  • 💬 Conversational Japanese
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 🧳 No relocation support

About Money Forward

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo

Money Forward is a fintech startup delivering tools to visualize and improve both individuals'​ and companies'​ financial health.

Key benefits

  • Small but diverse team
  • Great support for OSS
  • Relocation support

About the position

Our company offers a range of services, including the automatic household accounting and asset management service Money Forward ME and the business-oriented cloud service Money Forward Cloud, which are used by many users. For these services, utilizing various user data collected through a technology called Account Aggregation is essential.

The Account Aggregation Division develops a critical platform and services to collect and process user’s raw financial data, and transform it into intelligence. The aggregated data becomes even more valuable information through other Money Forward services and for our users. We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager who will lead the talented team facing aggressive technical challenges with strong User Focus mindset. In this role, you will help us expand both the depth and breadth of our data providing capabilities while ensuring we continue to deliver exceptional value to our users.

Technology Stack

  • Web Server-side: Java (Jersey, Guice, jOOQ)
  • Database: MySQL
  • Middleware: Docker, Nginx, Consul
  • Platform: AWS, On-premises

Responsibilities

  • Team management of the Core Application Group.
  • Contribute to improving the overall output (quality and productivity) of the team and developing members while also engaging in development tasks with the team.
  • Lead the development team by prioritizing maintenance and feature development projects with a focus on business contribution and making appropriate assignments and development.

Requirements

  • Experience in people management, including recruitment, development, and evaluation of engineering teams (around 5 or more members).
  • Over 5 years of experience in developing and operating web services using Java.
  • Experience in designing and developing web APIs and microservices.
  • Experience in code review using GitHub (or equivalent systems).
  • Knowledge of SQL.
  • Daily conversation level Japanese (equivalent to JLPT N3).

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Experience in developing and operating web services using Golang.
  • Experience with building and operating Kafka.
  • Experience in developing or operating mission-critical systems.
  • Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes. Money Forward recently announced our AI Strategy roadmap which focuses on improving AI-driven operational efficiencies, as well as integrating AI agents into our products to deliver better value to our users.

Compensation

6.408 to 10.008 million JPY annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    CV Screening

  2. 2

    First interview

    Depending on the position, there may be a technical assignment before the interview

  3. 3

    Several interviews

    The number of interviews depends on the position.

  4. 4

    Final interview

    We may ask for a reference check before or after the interview.

Meet Money Forward's Developers

Kostas Mavrikis left the Netherlands to join Money Forward in October 2023. As the first non-Japanese speaker in the Fukuoka office, he's been taking the initiative on Money Forward's Englishnization program, as well as introducing Kotlin, Scrumban, and European-style coffee meetings to his team.

Read their story...

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