Senior Software Engineer, Sole Proprietor Development Department, Tokyo

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo May 27 2026
  • 💴 ¥6.4M ~ ¥10.0M annually
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🌏
    Apply from abroad
    Relocate to Japan
  • 💬
    Business Japanese
    Conversational English
  • 🧪
    Senior level
    5+ years experience required
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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

The Sole Proprietor Development Department, part of Money Forward Business Company, is dedicated to empowering individual workers by developing innovative solutions that simplify and enhance their professional lives.

Our mission, “Moving work and life forward for individual workers”, drives us to create products that address the unique challenges faced by sole proprietors.

Our flagship offerings include Cloud Tax Return (クラウド 確定申告), a cloud-based tax filing solution that seamlessly integrates with the Money Forward ME personal finance app, providing users with a comprehensive view of their financial health. Additionally, Cloud Business Registration (クラウド 開業届) streamlines the business registration process, while Cloud Company Registration (クラウド 会社設立) facilitates company establishment with ease.

These products are designed to reduce administrative burdens, enhance efficiency, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, allowing sole proprietors to focus on their core business activities and achieve greater success.

We are looking for a full-stack engineer to join our team and be a part of our mission to provide our users with intuitive and user-friendly tools that adapt to their evolving needs.

Job Satisfaction

  • Drive Massive User Impact: Be an essential part of our mission to “Moving work and life forward for individual workers” by developing solutions like Cloud Tax Return and Cloud Business Registration that directly reduce administrative burdens and enhance efficiency for sole proprietors.
  • Full Product Ownership and Influence: Move beyond simple development to become a key strategic voice. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to define, design, and influence the product’s direction, not just build what you are told.
  • Thrive in an Open Culture: Work in a highly transparent and inclusive environment where bi-directional communication is actively promoted and open discussion across all topics is welcomed.

Experience Gained

  • Mandatory AI Innovation: Gain cutting-edge experience by working in a development environment where AI usage is explicitly recommended and mandatory, allowing you to leverage new technologies to drive efficiency and redefine quality standards.
  • Accelerated Career Growth: Fast-track your career with clear opportunities for project leadership and management, utilizing soft skills to mentor junior engineers and guide the team’s development journey to the next level.
  • Diverse & Modern Tech Stack Mastery: Expand your skills across a diverse and robust full-stack environment, including backend technologies like Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, and Go, and modern frontend frameworks such as Next.js, TypeScript, and React.

Technology Stack

  • Backend: Rails, GraphQL, RSpec, Go, Kotlin, ActiveMQ
  • Frontend: Next.js, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js, React Testing Library
  • Database: MySQL, Redis
  • Infrastructure: AWS(EKS), Docker, CircleCI, Datadog

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable and robust full-stack applications.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
  • Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
  • Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
  • Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
  • Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
  • Participate in code reviews to maintain high standards of code quality.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in software development.
  • Minimum of 3 years of web application development experience, with proven experience with backend and frontend web frameworks.
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails
  • Demonstrated experience working in Agile teams.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively.
  • Product Mindset:
    • Understand user workflows within the target domain and discuss specification validity
    • Identify potential design risks by considering domain assumptions and constraints
  • Decision Leadership:
    • Ability to organize objectives, non-objectives, constraints, and risks to drive decision-making forward
  • AI-Augmented Delivery
  • Utilize generative AI/coding assistance tools to accelerate development while ensuring quality, safety, and maintainability
  • English: Minimum conversational level (be able to conduct interviews in English)
  • Japanese: Business level; (minimally conversational level *be able to conduct interviews in Japanese)

Nice to haves

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

  • Experience with Golang is preferred.
  • Experience with leadership and management are preferred.
  • 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

¥6,408,000 ~ ¥10,008,000 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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