IAM Engineer (Identity Platform), Money Forward Cloud, ID Platform Group

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo April 3 2026
  • 💴 ¥10.0M ~ ¥20.0M annually
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🌏
    Apply from abroad
    Relocate to Japan
  • 💬
    No Japanese required
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Senior level
    Unspecified years of experience
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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

Our team is responsible for the development and operation of “Money Forward ID” and “EIAM,” which are mission-critical common platform supporting the entire Money Forward group.

This system is an authentication/authorization platform that supports over 30 products across the group and is a large-scale distributed system processing tens of millions of requests per day. We are looking for senior-level or higher engineers who can technically lead the evolution of the platform with expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM), embodying “Platform Engineering” that improves the development experience and security standards of the entire group, beyond just single product development.

Tech Stack and Environment

Ruby and Kotlin are used as the main languages for the backend. We welcome those who have deep expertise in one and are willing to learn and utilize the other in practice.
The team consists of Japanese and multinational members, and daily communication and business operations are mainly conducted in English.

About Money Forward ID

Money Forward ID (MFID) is a group-wide IdP that supports over 30 products cross-functionally. It complies with OIDC (OpenID Connect) and provides the entire group with robust security and seamless identity linkage to meet diverse authentication needs.

Current Challenges and Expected Role

You will be required to expand the platform through coordination with diverse stakeholders, such as compliance design with Legal, improvement of user experience in collaboration with CS, and ID integration processes with each product team, not limited to just ID platform development.

Leveraging your knowledge in the authentication/authorization domain, we would like you to lead the development of platform services that will support the next 10 years from both technical and business perspectives.

Responsibilities

As an IAM Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of Money Forward’s ID platform, next-generation multi-tenant management platform, and related applications.

In addition, you will provide technical advisory and leadership to engineering teams in promoting the introduction of ID platform to group companies and the tenant migration process.

We expect you to leverage your experience in operating large-scale services in production environments to propose improvements and make proactive decisions to provide a highly reliable and available platform.

  • Design, development, and maintenance of Money Forward ID
  • Technical and legal consulting for products within the group
  • Leading ID integration and migration processes between products
  • Research and implementation of the latest authentication/authorization technologies (Passkey, etc.)
  • Strengthening security and governance in the authentication platfrom

Requirements

  • Experience with authentication systems or identity providers (OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth, SAML, SSO, SCIM).
  • Extensive experience with Kotlin or Ruby.
  • Experience in database design and modeling.
  • Experience in designing and deploying cloud infrastructure.
  • 7+ years of experience in web application development.
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Ability to relocate to Japan and work from the Tokyo office at least twice a week.
  • English: Business-level
    • TOEIC 700 or higher + a level capable of handling meetings and text communication in English immediately after joining
    • Evidence of English proficiency other than TOEIC is also acceptable.
  • Japanese: Not required but a willingness to learn is preferred.
    • English is primarily used in our development environment. However, there are a few situations and tasks where communicating in Japanese is necessary.
    • We would like to encourage individuals who are currently learning Japanese or have a strong desire to learn to join our team.

Nice to haves

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

  • Experience in administration and operation of identity providers such as Okta, Azure AD, or Entra ID.
  • Experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM) consolidation or ID platform integration.
  • Data engineering experience, including ETL pipelines, data processing jobs, or database management.
  • Experience in system architecture design.
  • Experience in microservices development.
  • Experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
  • Experience in container-based development (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • 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

¥10,008,000 ~ ¥20,004,000 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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