{"id":1176711,"url":"https://alion.io/job/money-forward-principal-engineer-developer-productivity-cto-office-tokyo","title":"Principal Engineer (Developer Productivity) , CTO Office, Tokyo","company":{"id":13241,"name":"Money Forward","domain":"moneyforward.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/moneyforward","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"HRMOS","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":78,"open_postings":115,"ghost_share":0.287,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":126,"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Apache HTTP Server","optional":false},{"name":"Backstage","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"Google BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"Looker","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":true},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":true},{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"CircleCI","optional":true},{"name":"Confluence","optional":true},{"name":"Datadog","optional":true},{"name":"Dependabot","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"GCP","optional":true},{"name":"GitHub","optional":true},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":true},{"name":"GitLab","optional":true},{"name":"Go","optional":true},{"name":"Google Workspace","optional":true},{"name":"Grafana","optional":true},{"name":"Java","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true},{"name":"Kotlin","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"MySQL","optional":true},{"name":"Next.js","optional":true},{"name":"Nginx","optional":true},{"name":"Node JS","optional":true},{"name":"Notion","optional":true},{"name":"PHP","optional":true},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":true},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":true},{"name":"Python","optional":true},{"name":"React.js","optional":true},{"name":"Redis","optional":true},{"name":"Ruby","optional":true},{"name":"Slack","optional":true},{"name":"Snyk","optional":true},{"name":"Spring Boot","optional":true},{"name":"Terraform","optional":true},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-02T10:15:15Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-02","last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T10:54:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":126,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":125},"description":"About Us\nAt 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.\nAs 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.\nRather 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.\nWe 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.\nOverview\nAs 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.\nWe are evolving our developer experience, platforms, and governance to support increasingly complex products and a growing number of engineers in Japan and Vietnam.\nTo accelerate this transformation, we are looking for a Principal Engineer who can take ownership of developer productivity as a company-wide capability.\nYou will be a key partner to the CTO, engineering leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders in defining and executing this strategy.\nResponsibilities and Duties\nYou 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.\nBridge 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. \nMake 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. \nDefine 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. \nLead 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. \nIdentify 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. \nPartner 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. \nPartner 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. \nSupport 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. \nCommunicate clearly and credibly with both engineers and executives in English and Japanese, including proposals, status updates, decision records, post-implementation reviews, and success stories. \nRequired Skills and Experience\nHands-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.\n Experience driving technical changes across multiple teams through influence, without a direct reporting line.\nExperience collaborating with distributed or remote teams across multiple locations.\nProven track record of leading technical design, utilizing experimental approaches, and delivering incremental improvements in a complex, multi-team environment.\nStrong communication skills in both English and Japanese, with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders from executive management to frontline engineers.\nPreferred Skills and Experience\nExperience leading multi-team or company-wide initiatives related to Developer Productivity (DevProd/DevEx) or Platform Engineering.\nExperience designing and operating internal developer portals (e.g., Backstage) and internal platforms (including providing golden paths, templates, and shared services).\nPractical experience with productivity frameworks (e.g., DORA or SPACE) and designing/tracking meaningful metrics.\nExperience collecting, transforming, and visualizing engineering data using data pipelines and analytics infrastructure (e.g., Apache DevLake, BigQuery, Looker Studio).\nExperience collaborating with security, reliability, and operations teams to embed best practices into the development process.\nManagement or Tech Lead experience in a large-scale, multilingual organization spanning Japan and overseas (e.g., Vietnam).\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools or driving the organizational adoption of AI workflows.\nKnowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimization.\nExperience driving company-wide rollouts and organizational change.\nContributions to the tech community (e.g., OSS, tech blogs, speaking at conferences).\nExperience 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))\n\nLanguage Requirements\nJapanese 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. \nEnglish 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. \nTechnology Stack\nWeb Server-side： - Languages / Frameworks：Java, Kotlin, Ruby, Go, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, PHP, etc. - Frameworks / Libraries：Spring Boot, Rails, Next.js, React, etc.\nDatabase： - RDBMS / NoSQL：MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.\nMiddleware： - Containers / Web / Others：Docker, Nginx, Kafka, etc.\nPlatform： - Cloud / Infra：AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, on-premise environments, etc.\nData / Analytics： - Data Pipeline / Analytics：Apache DevLake, BigQuery, Looker Studio, etc.\nDeveloper Experience / Internal Platform： - Developer Portal / Platform：Backstage-based internal developer portal (DFP), internal AI platform, internal CI/CD platform, etc. \nTools Used\nRepository Management： - GitHub, GitLab (depending on team)\nCI/CD： - GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, Argo CD, etc.\nDevelopment Environment： - Docker, Terraform, Terraform Enterprise, local development environments, VS Code and other IDEs, etc.\nMonitoring / Logging： - DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack, etc.\nProject Management： - Jira, Notion, Confluence, etc.\nCommunication： - Slack, Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Meet), etc.\nSecurity： - Dependabot, Snyk, security scanning tools integrated into CI/CD, etc.\n職種 / 募集ポジション\nPrincipal Engineer (Developer Productivity) , CTO Office, Tokyo\n雇用形態\n正社員\n給与\n年収 9,000,000円 〜 18,000,000円\nMonthly salary system\n※Includes fixed allowances for up to 45 hours of legal overtime, legal holiday work, and 40 hours of late-night work.\n勤務地\n108-0023 21F Tamachi Station Tower S, msb Tamachi, 3-1-21 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo\nSalary System\n\nMin 750,000 JPY / month（9,000,000 JPY / year）〜1,500,000 JPY / month（18,000,000 JPY / year）\nEach including fixed allowances of 218,360 JPY〜436,654 JPY / month.\nBonus\nA「High Performance Bonus」may be paid to employees who receive high evaluations based on semi-annual evaluations in addition to their salary.\n※Please note that the remuneration of the High Performance Bonus is subject to change according to the company's performance.\nProbation Period\n3 months from join date\nWorking Hour System\nDiscretionary Labor System for Professional Work\n※Conditions apply; subject to change to Flextime System.\nWorking Hours\n9:30 - 18:30 (60 min break) are the basic working hours. However, employees are able to choose their working hours at their own discretion.\n※There is potential for overtime work outside the determined hours.\nWork Style Policy\nHybrid work style\n・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)\n・The specific \"team office days\" may vary depending on the assigned team.\nHolidays/Vacations\nSaturdays / Sundays / Japanese national holidays\nPaid holidays\nSummer holidays (3 days)\nWinter holidays (2 days)\nYear-end and New Year’s holidays (Dec 31st～Jan 3rd)\nBenefits\nVarious social insurances (employee pension, health insurance, employment insurance, industrial accident compensation insurance)\nNeighborhood housing allowance and neighborhood moving allowance\nSalary-based rent deduction benefit\nHealth check and gynecological checkup\nInfluenza vaccine\nBook purchases support\nDefined-contribution corporate pension\nEmployee stock ownership plan\nPreferential treatment when using the following services（limited to businesses under contract with Money Forward）\n- Rental agency\n- Housekeeping services\n- Babysitting\n- Online English conversation school\nSelection Process１\nCasual interview/Document Screening\n↓\nFirst interview (Depending on the position, there may be a technical assignment before the interview.)\n↓\nSeveral interviews (The number of interviews depends on the position. 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