Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Accounting Report System Development

Job Description

As a Senior Frontend Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building brand-new reporting features for our accounting cloud service, mainly using React.js and Typescript.

“Money Forward Cloud ERP” is a cloud-based composable ERP (modular ERP) that has our own SaaS applications for corporate back-office operations from Accounting, Finances, and Human Resources fields as its module applications. And the “Money Forward Cloud Accounting Plus” is an accounting module from the composable ERP modules.

Our team is developing new reporting features for the accounting module, which our users desire. The new reporting features allow users to check their company’s financial status easily and quickly. We have to handle large amounts of data to calculate figures for reporting, it is crucial to consider efficiency in processing to provide better UX.

Responsibilities

• Develop reporting functionalities on our cloud accounting product for over mid-sized companies with React.js and Typescript
• Develop frontend for customizable reporting functionalities
• Write scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Lead team members from a technical perspective
• Participate in discussions on product specifications or customer feedback with members from other functions
• Create system requirements that include functional and non-functional requirements
• Collaborate with team members, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Designer, and any other stakeholders
• Ship software to the production environment
• Monitor the production environment and if any issues happen, fix and recover the system
• Share your knowledge with team members and other engineers
• Contribute to improvements in the development process, communication, team building, etc

Qualifications

• Computer Science / Engineering Bachelor’s degree or related technical field
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience in leading product development with React.js and Typescript
• Experience with working in an Agile/Scrum team
• Team player
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Solution-oriented and result-driven
• Be able to relocate to Japan and commute to the office in Tokyo one day per week

Nice to Have

These aren’t required, but be sure to mention them in your application if you have them.

• Experience with financial domain service development and operations (e.g. accounting, reporting) 
• Experience with Next.js
• Experience with Go or other backend technologies
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with AWS or other public cloud services
• Experience with system design and infrastructure building
• Successful track record of developing quality software products and shipping production-ready software
• Interest in learning Japanese

Language Requirement

• Japanese: Not required (Interests in learning is a plus)
• English: Fluent in both written and verbal

About the Company

Money Forward X

Money Forward X provides BtoBtoC / BtoBtoB services for financial institutions and business companies, and is the predecessor of the Fintech Business Promotion Department launched in 2017. In order to achieve Money Forward's vision of "Becoming the financial platform for all", we are currently working on providing money solutions for local users.
With the trust and data of financial institutions, who have been the foundation of Japan's economy for many years, combined with Money Forward's technology, we will create a future with more convenience and less worries for money.

Our Product, "BANK APP"

“BANK APP" is a mobile application for customers of regional financial institutions, which allows users to access various services such as account opening, fund transfer, loan borrowing, repayment, and changing address, in addition to daily money management such as account balance, deposit, withdrawal details, mortgage balance, and mutual fund investment status. It is linked to the account system in collaboration with regional financial institutions and system vendors, so it can be used by anyone, including those who do not have an internet banking account.

Salary Range

• Min 7,000,000 - Max 10,000,000 Japanese yen / year (Gross)

Location, Remote Work

• Location: Tokyo, Japan
• Remote work: Hybrid/Partial remote with one day of in-office work per week

Working Hours

• Flexible Working Hours (No core time)

Vacations

• Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
• Japanese national holidays (16 national holidays in 2023)
• 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

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Full transportation coverage
• The latest computer (if considered necessary for work, limitless upgrade on specs and purchases of peripheral equipment are allowed.)
• Seminar participation support
• Book purchases
• Copyright of OSS belongs to individuals

Relocation Support for Overseas Candidates

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

• Temporary fully furnished apartment for the first month