Engineering Manager, Digital Bank

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥15M ~ ¥20M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 10+ years experience required
  • 💬 Business Japanese
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan
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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

As a new initiative, Money Forward has begun considering the provision of BaaS/digital banking in collaboration with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

We are currently seeking an Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage development teams across three countries: Japan, India, and Vietnam
  • Lead the team to develop the digital bank system from scratch
  • Design and develop systems with modern architecture using cloud infrastructure
  • Regularly communicate with development team members to resolve technical issues, manage progress, and ensure quality
  • Design system operations and maintenance with a view from the development stage to post-release
  • After release, efficiently and safely conduct additional system development, operations, and maintenance

Requirements

  • Over 10 years of development experience and more than 3 years of engineering management experience
  • Practical experience leading a development team of 30 or more members
  • Experience in backend system development using Java or similar
  • Practical experience related to frontend technologies such as Angular or NodeJS
  • Experience with authentication and authorization technologies like OAuth 2.0, OIDC
  • Experience in system development and operation using cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
  • Problem-solving skills and leadership for team management
  • Business level Japanese

Nice to haves

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

  • Experience in developing, operating, and maintaining mission-critical business systems in financial institutions (especially core banking systems)
  • Knowledge and experience in collaboration with financial institutions and regulatory compliance (experience interacting with the Financial Services Agency is a plus)
  • Project experience using Mambu
  • Experience implementing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
  • Experience in building teams and operational flows based on DevOps culture
  • Experience in AI development or development using AI tools
  • As announced in Money Forward AI Vision 2025, Money Forward is working on business efficiency using AI and plans to introduce AI agents in all products in the future

Compensation

15 to 20 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.

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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.

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