Software Architect
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Overview
Money Forward provides a cloud service called Money Forward Cloud that solves various financial issues for businesses. Money Forward Cloud ERP in particular focuses on providing value for mid-sized to large enterprises.
Preferred Skills
- Security and compliance: design and review of zero-trust architectures, practical compliance experience, secret management patterns
- Observability and reliability engineering: implementation of tracing and logging across polyglot environments, definition of SLO/SLA frameworks, capacity planning and load testing
- Leadership and influence: track record of coaching Staff/Principal Engineers and standardizing architecture, strong facilitation skills
- 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.
- Language Requirements
- Japanese: Not required but nice to have
- English：TOEIC score of 700 or above, plus the ability to handle meetings and text communication in English soon after joining
- 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.
- Money Forward Library: A library system with free lending of books, ranging from technical books to management books. Desired books can be purchased at the company's expense.
- Referral Driven: We cover the cost of recruitment meals. There is a referral reward system.
- Conference Participation Support: The company partially covers participation in domestic and international conferences, such as RubyKaigi and Google I/O.
About Money Forward
Money Forward has developed dozens of products over the past 10 years. This rapid development was possible because we tried various development strategies using different technology stacks in various locations. However, to deliver further value to our users, it has become necessary to unify these disparate approaches.
To address these challenges, the Cross-Functional Engineering Department was established in 2023. Our mission is to integrate Money Forward’s ERP products at a feature level, enhance collaboration amongst the ERP development teams, and to make development more efficient and streamlined across all ERP products.
Main Responsibilities
Within the ERP Development Division:
Build a community of architects across product teams
Provide department-wide architecture vision, strategy, and execution
Mentor other members in architecture
Contribute to the creation and review of technical specs/design for critical initiatives
Contribute to code review for all initiatives they're involved with
Job Satisfaction and Experience Gained
Setting and leading the department-wide architectural direction for several disparate product teams, creating a more unified engineering organization in the process.
Expected Mindset
Highly technical, while understanding the high-level pragmatic concerns of management. Looking to make a big impact in a large organization.
Desired Skills and Experience
Architecture and systems design: distributed systems patterns, design of domain-oriented microservices, hands-on experience leading large-scale migration/refactor projects
Cloud and infrastructure: multi-account architecture, advanced VPC design, Infrastructure-as-Code mastery, cost optimization
API platform and connectivity: deep knowledge of API design, end-to-end API lifecycle ownership
Proficient in leveraging generative AI and advanced tooling to streamline workflows and accelerate delivery.
Product Mindset with strong ability to translate high-level product requirements into clear, actionable technical solutions in collaboration with Product Managers.
Strong verbal and written English skills to ensure clarity and alignment across distributed, cross-functional teams.
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