SRE, Digital Bank

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo August 1 2026
  • 💴 ¥6.4M ~ ¥15M annually
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🌏
    Apply from abroad
    Relocate to Japan
  • 💬
    Business Japanese
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Intermediate to senior levels
    3+ 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

  • Transitioning to an English environment
  • Great support for OSS
  • Relocation support

About the position

As an engineer responsible for the high availability and reliability of the system infrastructure required for a digital bank, you will be tasked with building and operating this infrastructure.

Experience Gained

  • Challenge from Scratch. You will have the opportunity to build everything from the ground up, including the system infrastructure of a new digital bank, SRE culture, development processes, and on-call systems.
  • Modern Technology Stack. You can work with modern and challenging technologies in environments that demand financial-grade reliability, such as AWS multi-region configurations and Aurora Global Database.
  • Contribution to the Business. By closely collaborating with business and application development teams, you can directly contribute to the business launch from a technical perspective. Your input will influence the bank’s reliability.
  • Flat Organization. In a small, elite team, you will have the autonomy to actively participate in technology selection and architecture design.

Tech Stack

  • Backend: Kotlin
  • Infrastructure: Amazon ECS, Amazon Aurora Global Database (MySQL/PostgreSQL), Amazon ElastiCache Global Datastore, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Cloud flare
  • Monitoring: Datadog
  • IaC: Terraform

Responsibilities

  • Ensure stable operation of the system platform with high availability and reliability
  • Improve service reliability by defining and operating SLI/SLO and continuously improving performance
  • Use Datadog for monitoring, observability, and incident response
  • Ensure compliance and manage the infrastructure and security operations, particularly with AWS multi-region configurations
  • Maximize the productivity of the development team through platforms (CI/CD, development environments and testing environments)
  • Conduct performance optimization and create mechanisms for it
  • Handle incidents, recovery, and incident management
  • Handle incidents, recovery, and incident management, as well as fostering a postmortem culture.
  • Address regulatory requirements specific to the financial industry

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of hands-on experience in design and operations within SRE, infrastructure, or similar fields.
  • Proficiency in working with cloud platforms, especially AWS.
  • Familiarity with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability solutions.
  • Competence in using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Ansible.
  • Development experience utilizing Git for pull requests and code reviews
  • Expertise in managing and optimizing RDBMS like PostgreSQL.
  • N3 level (able to use translation tools for text and conversation) of Japanese

Nice to haves

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

  • Practical experience in industries with high security and compliance requirements, such as financial systems
  • Experience in designing, building, and operating disaster recovery environments using multi-region setups
  • Experience in designing and operating SLI/SLO
  • Experience in improving deployment times, performance optimization, and enhancing CI processes for development efficiency
  • Experience in web application development (SpringBoot, Java, Kotlin)
  • Experience in managing AWS Organizations
  • Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes.
    • Money Forward is at a major turning point, shifting “from Cloud to AI.” We are currently driving “AX (AI Transformation)”—the next step beyond DX—with the goal of providing “Digital Workers,” where AI agents autonomously execute tasks. As we enter a phase of evolving into Japan’s No. 1 back-office AI company by integrating AI agents into all of our products in the future, we are looking for individuals who can contribute to AI-driven development and value creation.

Compensation

¥6,408,000 ~ ¥15,000,000 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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