Frontend Engineer, Money Forward Cloud, MFBC CTO Office

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥6.4M ~ ¥10.0M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 3+ years experience required
  • 💬 Business Japanese
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 🧳 No relocation support
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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 the frontend team of the cross-development organization (MFBC-CTO Office) responsible for the Business domain of the Money Forward Group, we address cross-cutting frontend challenges, including the construction and operation of a design system that serves as the foundation for UI development across services.

Through activities to expand the introduction of the design system to over 30 products, which have varying levels of technology and UI quality, we aim to improve basic qualities such as UI development productivity, consistency, and accessibility. Additionally, by strengthening collaboration with developers and designers from each team, we will enhance knowledge sharing and information dissemination related to frontend, thereby boosting the overall frontend development capabilities of the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Building and operating the design system (Money Forward UI) for Money Forward Cloud
  • Strengthening collaboration with engineers, designers, and PdMs of each product through the expansion of the design system
  • Standardizing policies and processes in the frontend domain and UI development across MFBC
  • Promoting accessibility improvements throughout the company
  • Continuously sharing knowledge and disseminating information related to frontend technology
  • Forming and activating the internal frontend engineer community

Requirements

  • Over 3 years of experience as a web application engineer
  • Over 3 years of experience using React and TypeScript professionally
  • Deep understanding of HTML/CSS/JavaScript
  • Basic understanding of web accessibility

Nice to haves

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

  • Experience in building or promoting the introduction of a design system
  • Experience in improving product web accessibility or raising team members’ awareness of accessibility
  • Project management experience
  • People management experience in development teams
  • Experience in software architecture design
  • Experience in designing and developing web APIs
  • Experience in web application development using frameworks like Next.js, Vite, React Router
  • 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.

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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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