(日本語求人)
Overview
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 digital transformation across the region.
In this role, you will lead engineering teams within the SMB (Small and Medium-sized Business) Product Development Division. This division builds and scales Money Forward’s flagship suite of products—the very core of our portfolio and our largest business driver.
As we scale, we face a thrilling dual challenge: maintaining the absolute stability and reliability required for critical business infrastructure, while rapidly innovating with modern, AI-driven capabilities. We are looking for an ambitious engineering leader who wants to manage large-scale organizations, modernize complex domains, and make a tangible social impact on millions of businesses.
Our SMB Product Portfolio Includes:
- Accounting Software ‘Money Forward Cloud Accounting’
- Quotation, delivery, and invoice creation system ‘Money Forward Cloud Invoice’
- Tax Return software for sole proprietors ‘Money Forward Cloud Tax Return’
- AI-driven tax filing for sole proprietors 'Money Forward Cloud AI Tax Return'
- Company establishment service ‘Money Forward Cloud Company Registration’
- Start-up support service for sole proprietors ‘Money Forward Cloud Business Registration’
Responsibilities and Duties
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a highly diverse, global development organization. You will partner closely with product managers, designers, and executive leadership to drive the growth of our products, engineering culture, and business.
- Organizational Growth & Scaling: Recruit, evaluate, mentor, and retain top engineering talent within a cross-border, multi-location global team.
- Strategic Planning: Align technical roadmaps with business strategies to ensure the continuous and disruptive growth of our systems.
- Stakeholder & Resource Management: Balance engineering resources, manage stakeholder expectations, and drive alignment to execute complex product roadmaps.
- Technical Leadership: Champion future-proof architectures, systematically address technical debt, and foster engineering excellence.
- Division-Level Impact: Propose and execute organizational strategies that elevate the performance of the broader SMB Product Development Division, looking beyond just your immediate team.
Expected Role and Career Path
- Onboarding Phase: Initially, you will step into a leadership role managing an engineering team within one of our SMB product areas. This hands-on phase allows you to deeply understand our architecture, build relationships with stakeholders, and master our operational frameworks before expanding your scope.
- 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.
Why This Position is Compelling
- 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.
- Drive the AI Revolution: Under our corporate AI Vision, we are focusing on integrating AI agents and LLMs to redefine automated workflows. We are looking for leaders who think holistically about AI beyond basic code generation. You will be responsible for restructuring working styles and engineering processes to maximize the strategic benefit of AI agents, leading your teams through a historic technological pivot that transforms both our product capabilities and how we build them. You will lead teams through a historic technological pivot.
- 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.
Required Skills and Experience
- 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.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 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.
Language Requirements
- Japanese: Conversational level (Comfortable with day-to-day internal communication).
- English: Business Level (equivalent to TOEIC 800 or above)
- Note: If you do not have a TOEIC 800+ score, you will be asked to take a company-specified test during the selection process (typically after the first interview).
Who We’re Looking For
- Resonates with Money Forward’s Mission, Vision, Values, and Culture (MVVC).
- Thrives in ambiguity and can translate highly abstract business requirements into executable technical execution.
- A proactive, growth-minded leader who constantly challenges the status quo and takes extreme ownership.
- Passionate about sharing knowledge, fostering a psychological safety culture, and lifting the capabilities of the engineers around them.
Work Environment
At Money Forward, we provide an environment where we can create world-class services together, and we are looking forward to welcoming you.
- Provided PC Specs: We provide PCs equipped with the latest CPUs (MacOS or Windows). Custom-made PCs tailored to business requirements and replacements with the latest OS are also possible.
- Systems to Enhance the Development Environment: Peripheral devices necessary for work (such as displays, mice, keyboards) can be purchased as office supplies. Generally, you can choose from standard products (catalog), and if conditions are met, you can apply for non-standard products as well.
| 職種 / 募集ポジション | Senior Engineering Manager (SMB Product Development Division), Tokyo |
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| 雇用形態 | 正社員 |
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| 勤務地 | |
| Salary System | <Salary Range> Min 834,000 JPY / month（10,008,000 JPY / year）- 1,250,000 JPY / month（15,000,000 JPY / year） Each including fixed allowances of 242,078 JPY - 360,732 JPY / month. |
| Bonus | A「High Performance Bonus」may be paid to employees who receive high evaluations based on semi-annual evaluations in addition to their salary. ※Please note that the remuneration of the High Performance Bonus is subject to change according to the company's performance. |
| Probation Period | 3 months from join date |
| Working Hour System | Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work ※Conditions apply; subject to change to Flextime System. |
| Working Hours | 9:30 - 18:30 (60 min break) are the basic working hours. However, employees are able to choose their working hours at their own discretion. ※There is potential for overtime work outside the determined hours. |
| Work Style Policy | Hybrid work style ・As a standard practice, employees are required to work at the office a minimum of 2 days per week. Employees are encouraged to spend 3 or more days in the office. (This policy may be subject to change based on the company and job circumstances) ・The specific "team office days" may vary depending on the assigned team. |
| Holidays/Vacations | ■ Saturdays / Sundays / Japanese national holidays ■ Paid holidays ■ Summer holidays (3 days) ■ Winter holidays (2 days) ■ Year-end and New Year’s holidays (Dec 31st - Jan 3rd) |
| Benefits | ■ Various social insurances (employee pension, health insurance, employment insurance, industrial accident compensation insurance) ■ Neighborhood housing allowance and neighborhood moving allowance ■ Health check and gynecological checkup ■ Influenza vaccine ■ Book purchases support ■ Defined-contribution corporate pension ■ Employee stock ownership plan ■ Preferential treatment when using the following services（limited to businesses under contract with Money Forward） - Rental agency - Housekeeping services - Babysitting - Online English conversation school |
| Selection Process１ | Casual interview/Document Screening ↓ First interview (Depending on the position, there may be a technical assignment before the interview) ↓ Several interviews (The number of interviews depends on the position) ↓ Final interview (We may ask for a reference check before or after the interview) ↓ Job offer/Offer meeting ※The process may be subject to change depending on the case. |
| Selection Process２ | ■ What are reference checks? Money Forward may ask for your cooperation with reference checks using a reference check service tool. We believe that mutual understanding is limited to the selection process alone. Therefore, we would like to gather information about you from your supervisor and colleagues at your current or former company to ensure a more reliable match and facilitate your early success after joining our company. ※We do not make employment decisions based solely on the contents of reference checks. ※The fact that you are in the selection process with us will not be disclosed to referees. |
| Notes | ・Range of change in job description: Work as determined by the company ・Range of change in work location: Work location as determined by the company |
| Reference Information | https://recruit.moneyforward.com/#introduction |
| 会社名 | 株式会社マネーフォワード |
|---|---|
| 代表者 | 代表取締役社長グループCEO 辻 庸介 |
| 創業 | 2012年5月 |
| 取締役 | 金坂 直哉 中出 匠哉 竹田 正信 石原 千亜希 |
| 社外取締役 | 安武 弘晃 宮澤 弦 Ryu Kawano Suliawan 菊間 千乃 芦田 健 上田 梨々子 |
| 監査役 | 畠山 優実 田中 克幸 西山 茂 |
| グループCxO・VPox | 上利 陽太郎 瀧 俊雄 山田 一也 坂 裕和 松岡 俊 伊藤 セルジオ 大輔 関田 雅和 松久 正幸 野村 一仁 長尾 祐美子 渋谷 亮 金井 恵子 梅田 康吉 |
| 執行役員 | 田平 公伸 本川 大輔 冨山 直道 永井 博 駒口 哲也 廣原 亜樹 島村 誠一郎 永井 七奈 木村 慎治 丸山 嘉伸 吉本 憲文 工藤 裕之 島内 広史 小山 幸宏 渡辺 恵伍 松村 道夫 岩崎 大 |
| オフィス | 本社オフィス 〒108-0023 東京都港区芝浦3-1-21 msb Tamachi 田町ステーションタワーS 21F 北海道支社 〒060-0061 北海道札幌市中央区南一条西4-5-1 札幌大手町ビル3階 東北支社 〒980-0021 宮城県仙台市青葉区中央2-2-10 仙都会館 5F 東海支社、名古屋開発拠点 〒450-6213 愛知県名古屋市中村区名駅4-7-1 ミッドランドスクエア 13F 京都支社、京都開発拠点 〒604-8004 京都府京都市中京区三条通河原町東入中島町78番地 明治屋京都ビル 4階 関西支社、大阪開発拠点 〒541-0042 大阪府大阪市中央区今橋 2-5-8 トレードピア淀屋橋 9階 広島支社 〒730-0015 広島市中区橋本町9-7 ビル博丈5F 九州・沖縄支社、福岡開発拠点 〒810-0041 福岡県福岡市中央区大名2丁目6-50 福岡大名ガーデンシティ 16F |
| 社内コミュニケーション活性化の取り組み | ■全社週次/月次朝会/半期総会 ■代表との意見交換会（CEOセッション） ■全社懇親会（MF Happy Hour） ■他部門社員との交流会（シャッフルランチ・ディナー） ■上長との定期1on1（ツキイチ面談） ■社内公募制度（MFチャレンジシステム） ■社員満足度調査（MFグループサーベイ） ※一部正社員のみ |
| 労働条件 | 屋内原則禁煙（喫煙室あり）等 |
| 中途採用比率 | 2021年11月末 93.8％ 2022年11月末 90.0% 2023年11月末 76.6％ 2024年11月末 88.7% |