Money Forward
Senior Engineering Manager (SMB Product Development Division), Tokyo
Japan (Hybrid)RemotePosted Today¥10,008,000 – ¥10,008,000
Full TimeSeniorRemoteJP
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Job Description
Since its founding in 2012, Money Forward has grown into one of Japan’s leading Fintech and SaaS powerhouses. Today, our B2B SaaS offerings alone serve over 200,000 paying businesses, driving massive
Key Highlights
- Growth Phase: You will be trusted with mission-critical organizational and product goals—identifying bottlenecks in people, processes, or systems, and resolving them autonomously across broader teams.
- Future Trajectory: We view this role as a pipeline for executive engineering leadership. Successful leaders in this position are expected to fast-track into Deputy Division Manager or Division Manager roles.
- Scale a Flagship Suite: You will lead the engineering efforts behind Money Forward’s most profitable and high-traffic product suite. Balancing rapid feature iteration with enterprise-grade stability is a high-level challenge rarely found elsewhere.
- Unrivaled Global Culture: Over 50% of our engineering organization is international. You will hone your cross-cultural leadership skills in a genuinely global environment, making your management profile highly competitive on an international scale.
- Organizational Growth & Scaling: Recruit, evaluate, mentor, and retain top engineering talent within a cross-border, multi-location global team.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Organizational Management: Proven track record of improving operational processes, structuring engineering teams, and optimizing organizational performance.
- People Management : Strong experience in engineering mentorship, career pathing, performance evaluations, and driving technical recruitment from requirement definition to closing.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Experience collaborating with Product Managers and managing expectations with senior or executive leadership.
- Technical Background: Solid foundational experience in Web Application Development, architecture design, and a strong capability to engage in deep technical discussions with Tech Leads.
- Japanese: Conversational level (Comfortable with day-to-day internal communication).
- English: Business Level (equivalent to TOEIC 800 or above)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing engineering organizations of several dozen members.
- Experience managing international, multi-national or remote-first teams.
- Experience with financial systems, ERP software, or complex B2B SaaS architectures.
- A proven track record of successfully refactoring monolithic architectures or systematically reducing complex technical debt.
- Familiarity with leveraging AI tools to optimize internal development velocities or embedding AI/ML capabilities into software products.
- Experience or familiarity with our core technology stack, particularly Ruby, Go, and/or Kotlin.
Skills & Technologies
AgileRubyGoKotlin
About the Company
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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