Money Forward
Engineering Manager, Document Platform Department, PPD, Tokyo
Japan (Hybrid)RemotePosted Today¥10,008,000 – ¥10,008,000
Full TimeSeniorRemoteJP
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Job Description
At Money Forward, we are dedicated to transforming financial services using advanced technology. With over 50 services for individuals and businesses, including popular products like Money Forward ME
Key Highlights
- Languages: Go, Java, Ruby
- Databases: MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
- Infrastructure/Middleware: Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS (EKS, ECR, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS, etc…), GCP, Docker, Kafka, NginX, Consul
- Build and develop a high-performing engineering team by improving both delivery quality and productivity through clear goals, healthy processes, and strong collaboration.
- Own people management for the team, including coaching, career development, performance evaluation, and hiring, within a global and diverse engineering organization.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with sufficient technical depth to guide design discussions and evaluate engineering quality.
- Proven experience managing engineers (typically 3+), including coaching, performance evaluation, and hiring.
- Experience leading or managing development teams in an Agile environment, with accountability for delivery outcomes and team health.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders such as Product Managers, designers, and business teams to drive projects forward.
- Experience working with globally distributed or multinational engineering teams, including communication and coordination in English.
- Solid understanding of backend systems, software architecture, and modern web or platform-based services (hands-on coding experience required in past roles).
- Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to prioritize, make decisions, and drive progress in fast-moving environments.
- Business level English proficiency (TOEIC score of 700 or above equivalent).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager in an organization of 10+ engineers, including scaling teams and processes over time.
- Experience designing, developing, or operating cloud-based systems and microservices in a production environment.
- Familiarity with modern platform or backend architectures, including distributed systems or event-driven designs.
- Experience improving services and teams over a long lifecycle, including modernization, refactoring, or operational stability improvements.
- Experience conducting and receiving code reviews, with the ability to guide engineering quality without micromanagement.
- Experience in people evaluation, talent development, and addressing organizational or team-level challenges.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development or productivity tools (e.g., AI coding assistants, internal AI tools), and interest in leveraging AI to improve engineering efficiency.
- Experience working in a multi-national, cross-timezone team environment.
- Experience speaking at, organizing, or contributing to internal or external tech talks, study sessions, or engineering communities.
- Japanese proficiency is not required but nice to have.
Skills & Technologies
AgileGoJavaRubyMySQLDynamoDBRedisTerraformKubernetesAWSGCPDockerKafkaJira
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
¥10,008,000 – ¥10,008,000
Location
Japan (Hybrid)
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
Today
Country
JP