Money Forward
Engineering Manager (Data Platform), Money Forward X, Tokyo
Japan (Hybrid)RemotePosted 5 days ago¥6,408,000 – ¥6,408,000
Full TimeSeniorRemoteJP
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Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Data Platform team, responsible for building and operating scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient data infrastructure. This role combi
Key Highlights
- Manage and lead a team of 4–8 engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to foster professional growth.
- Develop and maintain a high-performing and motivated engineering team.
- Establish and communicate clear team goals, expectations, and deliverables.
- Maintain a ratio of 7:3 between team and technical management, ensuring a balance between leadership and hands-on technical contributions.
- Drive design and implementation of robust data pipelines, ingestion frameworks, and transformation systems.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- At least 3+ years of engineering management experience.
- At least 5+ years of hands-on experience building and operating high-volume data platforms.
- Prior experience in a high-scale SaaS or data-intensive product company.
- Strong programming background (e.g., Python, Java, Scala, or Go).
- Strong hands-on experience with: Data pipelines (batch and streaming) ETL/ELT frameworks Data warehouses and OLAP systems Real-time streaming (Kafka Streams, Flink, Spark Streaming or similar)
- Data pipelines (batch and streaming)
- ETL/ELT frameworks
- Data warehouses and OLAP systems
- Real-time streaming (Kafka Streams, Flink, Spark Streaming or similar)
- Experience with tools such as: Apache NiFi, Kafka, RabbitMQ ClickHouse, Snowflake (or similar)
- Apache NiFi, Kafka, RabbitMQ
- ClickHouse, Snowflake (or similar)
- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and data architecture patterns.
- Experience in designing scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-throughput systems.
- English: Business level (TOEIC 700 or above, or equivalent English communication proficiency)
- Japanese: Conversational and above preferred
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with:
- Data lake/lakehouse architectures (e.g., Delta Lake, Iceberg)
- Workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Argo)
- Knowledge of data security and compliance (GDPR, SOC2, etc.).
- Experience supporting ML/AI data pipelines and feature engineering workflows.
- Experience implementing data quality, lineage, and governance frameworks.
- Experience building internal data platforms as a product (self-serve data platforms).
- 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.
- 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.
Skills & Technologies
KotlinJavaAWSKubernetesDockergRPCKafkaRabbitMQCI/CDPythonScalaGoAzure
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
¥6,408,000 – ¥6,408,000
Location
Japan (Hybrid)
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
5 days ago
Country
JP