Principal Engineer (Developer Productivity) , CTO Office, Tokyo

About Us

At Money Forward, we are dedicated to transforming financial services using advanced technology. With over 50 services for individuals and businesses, including popular products like Money Forward ME and Money Forward Cloud, we help make managing money easier. We use “account aggregation” technology to gather user data, turning it into useful insights for our customers.

As announced in "Money Forward AI Vision 2026," we view AI utilization not as an option, but as a prerequisite for sustainable enterprise growth. Guided by executive leadership, we are accelerating an all-in AI shift across the entire company.

Rather than treating AI merely as an efficiency tool for existing tasks, we fundamentally ask, "How should this process exist in the first place?" to reconstruct products and workflows optimized for the AI era. Powered by a rich, active user base and vast datasets, we strictly practice AI-driven development engineered backward from maximum user value. Internally, we actively integrate generative AI tools into our development environments, driving radical productivity gains and rapid product iterations.

We are looking for motivated engineers who want to embrace new technologies without fear of failure in this period of global trial and error-and who are truly passionate about building high-impact AI services grounded in massive real-world data.

Overview

As Money Forward continues to scale our product portfolio and engineering organization, strengthening developer productivity has become a strategic priority for the CTO Office and the broader MF Engineering group.

We are evolving our developer experience, platforms, and governance to support increasingly complex products and a growing number of engineers in Japan and Vietnam.

To accelerate this transformation, we are looking for a Principal Engineer who can take ownership of developer productivity as a company-wide capability.

You will be a key partner to the CTO, engineering leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders in defining and executing this strategy.

Responsibilities and Duties

You will lead developer productivity and developer experience initiatives across Money Forward Cloud and the wider group, working closely with engineering teams in Japan and Vietnam, the CISO and PRE/SRE organizations, as well as Product and management. While architecture and governance leaders own company-wide technical design, you will own how productively developers across the company work and how smoothly they can deliver high-quality software.

• Bridge the CTO, engineering leadership, and Product to surface real productivity problems, propose data-informed solutions, and align on which value areas to prioritize and invest in first.
• Make full use of DFP (our Backstage-based developer portal) and evolve it where it provides leverage-so product teams can self-serve common needs such as templates, shared libraries, CI/CD pipelines, standard patterns, and golden paths-treating it as one productivity lever rather than a goal in itself.
• Define and instrument engineering productivity: select appropriate metrics (such as DORA, SPACE, or team-specific indicators), measure honestly using our productivity-data stack (Apache DevLake, BigQuery, Looker Studio), and use these insights to identify friction points and demonstrate impact.
• Lead developer-experience and tooling programs end-to-end, including developer tooling, CI/CD and build-time improvements, internal documentation and templates, and especially the rollout of AI tools, agents, and workflows on our internal AI Platform-covering technical design, implementation, and adoption.
• Identify practices that work well in specific teams and scale them across the organization by codifying patterns, sharing knowledge, and driving adoption through communication, enablement, and change management.
• Partner with the CISO and PRE/SRE organizations on security and reliability initiatives that touch developer experience, ensuring secure and reliable defaults without owning those mandates directly.
• Partner with the FinOps owner to embed cost awareness into developer tooling and golden paths, helping teams make cost-effective architectural and operational choices while not owning the overall cost program yourself.
• Support the architecture and governance review process where it intersects with developer experience, ensuring that standards and guidelines are practical, discoverable, and easy for teams to adopt.
• Communicate clearly and credibly with both engineers and executives in English and Japanese, including proposals, status updates, decision records, post-implementation reviews, and success stories.

Required Skills and Experience

• Hands-on software engineering experience (including at least one of the following): Experience building and operating developer tools, internal platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and build systems. Experience in SRE, infrastructure, or production engineering. Experience as a Tech Lead in a product or platform team.
• Experience driving technical changes across multiple teams through influence, without a direct reporting line.
• Experience collaborating with distributed or remote teams across multiple locations.
• Proven track record of leading technical design, utilizing experimental approaches, and delivering incremental improvements in a complex, multi-team environment.
• Strong communication skills in both English and Japanese, with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders from executive management to frontline engineers.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience leading multi-team or company-wide initiatives related to Developer Productivity (DevProd/DevEx) or Platform Engineering.
• Experience designing and operating internal developer portals (e.g., Backstage) and internal platforms (including providing golden paths, templates, and shared services).
• Practical experience with productivity frameworks (e.g., DORA or SPACE) and designing/tracking meaningful metrics.
• Experience collecting, transforming, and visualizing engineering data using data pipelines and analytics infrastructure (e.g., Apache DevLake, BigQuery, Looker Studio).
• Experience collaborating with security, reliability, and operations teams to embed best practices into the development process.
• Management or Tech Lead experience in a large-scale, multilingual organization spanning Japan and overseas (e.g., Vietnam).
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools or driving the organizational adoption of AI workflows.
• Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience driving company-wide rollouts and organizational change.
• Contributions to the tech community (e.g., OSS, tech blogs, speaking at conferences).
• Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes.
  • Money Forward is at a major turning point, shifting "from Cloud to AI." We are currently driving "AX (AI Transformation)"-the next step beyond DX-with the goal of providing "Digital Workers," where AI agents autonomously execute tasks. As we enter a phase of evolving into Japan's No. 1 back-office AI company by integrating AI agents into all of our products in the future, we are looking for individuals who can contribute to AI-driven development and value creation.(More information here(https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/full-transcript-money-forward-announced-ai-strategy-vision-phwoc/?trackingId=sl33ZIGRFzkBJJv7wI9qsg%3D%3D))

Language Requirements

• Japanese Language Requirements Business level (fluent, capable of handling communication with clients in Japanese). You should be able to participate in technical and non-technical discussions, lead meetings, and produce written documentation in Japanese.
• English Language Requirements Business level (fluent, capable of handling communication with clients in English). You should be able to collaborate effectively with global members, lead discussions, and produce technical documents in English.

Technology Stack

• Web Server-side： - Languages / Frameworks：Java, Kotlin, Ruby, Go, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, PHP, etc. - Frameworks / Libraries：Spring Boot, Rails, Next.js, React, etc.
• Database： - RDBMS / NoSQL：MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.
• Middleware： - Containers / Web / Others：Docker, Nginx, Kafka, etc.
• Platform： - Cloud / Infra：AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, on-premise environments, etc.
• Data / Analytics： - Data Pipeline / Analytics：Apache DevLake, BigQuery, Looker Studio, etc.
• Developer Experience / Internal Platform： - Developer Portal / Platform：Backstage-based internal developer portal (DFP), internal AI platform, internal CI/CD platform, etc.

Tools Used

• Repository Management： - GitHub, GitLab (depending on team)
• CI/CD： - GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, Argo CD, etc.
• Development Environment： - Docker, Terraform, Terraform Enterprise, local development environments, VS Code and other IDEs, etc.
• Monitoring / Logging： - DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack, etc.
• Project Management： - Jira, Notion, Confluence, etc.
• Communication： - Slack, Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Meet), etc.
• Security： - Dependabot, Snyk, security scanning tools integrated into CI/CD, etc.

職種 / 募集ポジション

Principal Engineer (Developer Productivity) , CTO Office, Tokyo

雇用形態

正社員

給与

年収 9,000,000円 〜 18,000,000円

Monthly salary system

※Includes fixed allowances for up to 45 hours of legal overtime, legal holiday work, and 40 hours of late-night work.

勤務地

108-0023 21F Tamachi Station Tower S, msb Tamachi, 3-1-21 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Salary System

Min 750,000 JPY / month（9,000,000 JPY / year）〜1,500,000 JPY / month（18,000,000 JPY / year）

Each including fixed allowances of 218,360 JPY〜436,654 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
• Salary-based rent deduction benefit
• 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

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First interview (Depending on the position, there may be a technical assignment before the interview.)

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Several interviews (The number of interviews depends on the position. We will request you to take an aptitude assessment.)

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Final interview (We may ask for a reference check before or after the interview.)

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Job offer/Offer meeting

※The process may be subject to change depending on the case.

• About the Aptitude Test

It is a simple web-based survey taking around 20 minutes to complete.

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

会社情報

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

金井 恵子

梅田 康吉

丸山 嘉伸

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

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

渋谷 亮

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%