
Money Forward
Senior Backend Engineer, ML Platform, Tokyo
Japan (Hybrid)RemotePosted Today¥7,008,000 – ¥7,008,000
Full TimeSeniorRemoteJP
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Job Description
Guided by Money Forward AI Vision 2026, Money Forward is driving company-wide AX (AI Transformation) to deliver “digital workers” — AI agents that carry out business operations autonomously. The CDAO
Key Highlights
- Design and implement the microservice architecture: a high-performance, low-latency service in Python and FastAPI, built for transaction volumes at the scale of tens of millions of users, including service boundaries and data ownership.
- Design API contracts and reach agreement with stakeholders: OpenAPI schemas and error taxonomies, versioning and backward compatibility, and the process for changing contracts with Digital Bank and group-company stakeholders.
- Bring models and credit logic into production, with resilience by design: the client-side interface for SageMaker endpoints, latency budget allocation, and timeout, retry, circuit breaker, and fallback behavior.
- Implement credit domain logic with correctness and explainability: credit limit calculation with exhaustive boundary and failure cases, idempotency, reproducibility (linking input data, model version, and logic), and audit trail design.
- Design for performance around data supply: how aggregated data in object storage is loaded, freshness management and consistent cutover, caching strategy, and asynchronous/parallel model calls.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating web APIs and microservices in Python or comparable languages
- Track record with high-traffic, low-latency applications through efficient API design and application-level performance tuning
- Contract and failure design experience for external system integrations including API schema, error taxonomy, timeouts, retries, and fallbacks
- Strong test design and quality assurance background with experience embedding automated testing into the development process
- Cloud application development experience on AWS using containerized environments and CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to collaborate and build agreement across roles to drive technical specifications with SRE, machine learning engineers, and external stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of machine learning integration and MLOps, including calling models on platforms like Amazon SageMaker and designing for inference latency
- Understanding of data platforms and pipelines like S3, Glue, and Databricks to inform technical specs and incident analysis
- Fluency reading and writing IaC with Terraform to propose infrastructure changes via pull requests
- Experience in financial services, credit, or payments domains with exposure to auditability, traceability, and advanced security like mTLS, OAuth, or JWT
- Leadership experience as a tech lead or scrum master with authority over architecture, code quality, and process standardization
Skills & Technologies
REST APIMachine LearningScrumCI/CDPythonFastAPIAWSTerraform
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
¥7,008,000 – ¥7,008,000
Location
Japan (Hybrid)
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
Today
Country
JP