Technical Product Manager (Microservices)

Who we are

Mission :

Money Forward. Move your life forward. - ‘Money' may be nothing more than a tool for living. However, money is also essential for guarding ourselves and our families, as well as for realizing our dreams.

We contribute to building a better society by providing services that enable users to “see money in a positive light and broaden their range of opportunities,” thereby significantly enriching their lives.

Vision :

Becoming the financial platform for all - We aim to solve financial issues of all individuals and businesses through building an open and fair financial platform and providing essential services.

Values :

User Focus - Defying all obstacles, we will retain a user-oriented stance at all times, grasping users’ substantive issues and delivering solutions that exceed their expectations.

Technology Driven - We believe technology to be a major driver in changing the world. We will therefore delve deeper into technology and provide society with deriving services, and thus unceasingly drive innovation.

Fairness - We pledge to be fair and open to all stakeholders including our users, employees, shareholders and society as a whole.

What we do

In line with our mission “Money Forward. Move your life forward,” we provide services that resolve financial issues for all individuals and corporations.

Money Forward ME - is a BtoC personal financial management web/mobile app used by more than 11 million users.

This app is accessible to anyone, easy to use, and free of charge. It automatically aggregates statements of bank accounts/credit cards/securities accounts/FX accounts/pensions/points and compiles a household accounting book.  

Money Forward ME helps users take the first step toward eliminating anxiety about money by enabling users to centrally manage their household accounts and financial assets, and acknowledge their cash flow and balances.

Money Forward Cloud Series - is a BtoB Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), which automates and streamlines accounting and human resource operations by integrating data from various back office related platforms and applications.

This series has more than 500,000 users, from small businesses to enterprises.

Other services can be found in https://corp.moneyforward.com/en/service/business/

About the job

As a Technical Product Manager, you will be responsible for building and migrating from legacy to microservices.

Money Forward Cloud Accounting is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for businesses, which automates and streamlines accounting by integrating data from various back office related platforms and applications.

It was originally developed as a monolithic application with Ruby on Rails and already has a huge number of users.

We’ve been transforming this to microservices architecture, aiming to divide a large development team into smaller ones and deliver such a lot of value to users faster.

This will be a more complicated challenge for you than developing a microservice from zero, but it will give you a great opportunity to grow as an engineer.
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We are looking forward to hearing from you if you are interested in working with us to take this big challenge.

Let's go to the future together!

Responsibility

• Create system requirements that include functional and non-functional requirements.
• Understand business requirements and design high-level architecture.
• Build strategy of migration.
• Create and maintain roadmaps.
• Work with engineers to capture technical designs. This might include diagrams of specifications, for instance, producing architecture diagrams, database diagrams, sequence diagrams, REST/gRPC endpoints and JSON payloads.
• Manage prioritization and trade-offs among development quality, features and speed of development.
• Communicate with all relevant stakeholders in a cross-functional team.

Qualifications

• Computer Science / Engineering Bachelor’s degree or related technical field.
• 3+ years of product management experience.
• Strong technical background. Able to speak with developers with the same language.
• Experience with MySQL or similar RDBs.
• Deep understanding of microservice architecture.
• Deep understanding of web service development.
• Deep understanding of SDLC.
• Successful track record of developing quality software products and shipping production-ready software.
• Experience with SaaS is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD is a plus.
• PMP certification is a plus.
• Experience with working in an Agile/Scrum team.
• Team player.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Solution-oriented and result-driven.

Language Requirement

Advanced level in both Japanese and English is required.

• English: CEFR-level B2 or equivalent
• Japanese: N1 or equivalent

Salary Range

• Min 7,000,000 - Max 15,000,000 Japanese Yen / Year (Gross)
• (approx. USD 64k - 136k at 110 JPY/USD)

Location

• Tokyo or Kyoto, Japan

Remote Work

We require 1 in-office day per week (so up to 4 days per week of remote work).

However, employees can work fully remotely whenever there's a state of emergency (e.g due to COVID-19).

Even after COVID-19 is no longer an issue, Money Forward plans to continue remote work. However the specifics of their policy (such as number of remote days per week) is still under discussion.

Working hours

• Flexible Working Hours (No core time)

Vacations

• Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
• Japanese national holidays (16 national holidays in 2021)
• Paid holiday: 10 days (first year) *Number of paid holidays increases (+1 day) every year up to 20 days a year.
• Summer vacation days: 3 days
• Winter vacations days: 2 days

Benefit

• Health insurance
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Full transportation coverage
• The latest computer (No limit upgrade or purchase when needed for development is available upon approval.)
• Seminar participation support
• Book purchases
• Copyright of OSS belongs to individuals

Relocation Support

• Working Visa
• Flight ticket to Japan
• Signing Bonus
• Temporary fully furnished apartment for the first month